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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Mathematical Thinking in Computer Science by University of California San Diego

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About the Course

Mathematical thinking is crucial in all areas of computer science: algorithms, bioinformatics, computer graphics, data science, machine learning, etc. In this course, we will learn the most important tools used in discrete mathematics: induction, recursion, logic, invariants, examples, optimality. We will use these tools to answer typical programming questions like: How can we be certain a solution exists? Am I sure my program computes the optimal answer? Do each of these objects meet the given requirements? In the online course, we use a try-this-before-we-explain-everything approach: you will be solving many interactive (and mobile friendly) puzzles that were carefully designed to allow you to invent many of the important ideas and concepts yourself. Prerequisites: 1. We assume only basic math (e.g., we expect you to know what is a square or how to add fractions), common sense and curiosity. 2. Basic programming knowledge is necessary as some quizzes require programming in Python....

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Mar 25, 2019

The teachers are informative and good. They explain the topic in a way that we can easily understand. The slides provide all the information that is needed. The external tools are fun and informative.

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Feb 27, 2021

It is a great course! teachers explain everything with care. While providing lectures there are some popup ques that verify whether you understood that lecture or not. Overall, a great experience.

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By Sumit A

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Jun 4, 2018

The lectures were really good, however explanation of more exercises would be a bit helpful as the videos are fairly short, I had problem understanding some of them due to limited number of examples.

By SaLLaK L

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Jun 2, 2022

the strategy of "try first" is great tool and is a must in my opinion to learn math, I hope Coursera improve more the quality of the lectures, add more exercises , Overall thank you so much

By yk

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Mar 25, 2020

The material was interesting however the instructor Alexander Chen was incomprehensible. He was unable to verbalize a thought or explanation without sounding nonsensical.

By Novak D

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Mar 30, 2020

I wish it went a bit more in-depth. I also wish there were more examples to practice. Overall, however, it was a good course, I have learned a lot.

By Yu T

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Sep 9, 2023

There are no videos from Week 4. Most quizzes are given before explanations. So I solved many quizzes without knowing the intent of the questions.

By Ali S

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Oct 18, 2022

totally it was a good and beneficial course but the heavy foreign accents of lectureres made it a little difficult to follow the lectures.

By Nitish

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Apr 20, 2020

It's really very interesting course. I hope you all enjoy this course.

logical and interesting subject.

By Neeraj G

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Feb 10, 2020

The course was very basic for me when I compared the material with the book of Discrete Mathematics

By shashwat p

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Sep 4, 2020

Last week was a bit confusing because the concept of permutation and cycles are mixed I guess.

By Ambarish B

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Aug 24, 2019

The lectures aren't good and the assignments are not well explained as to what we need to do.

By Erickson N R I

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Oct 25, 2020

I didn't really get the lessons. The instructors weren't confident in teaching their topics.

By Hea R W

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Sep 17, 2019

The quiz were all very interesting, but sometimes it was hard to understand the lecturers...

By Aaliyah J

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Jul 13, 2023

the honors selection

is buggy but you can still complete

the course with honors, sadly.

By Trần C L

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Oct 19, 2019

Good course with many interesting quizzes although it is lacking of clear explanation

By Margarida B

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Apr 23, 2020

Last 3 weeks were not engaging at all, the first 3 were amazing (my opinion)

By Ghali L H

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Sep 9, 2020

Explanations of Puzzles are not always clear.

Week 6 is very complex.

By sathyamoorthi M

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Jun 9, 2020

Good explanations .Last two weeks aren't clear enough to understand.

By Shambhav A

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Aug 3, 2020

lectures, particularly by alexander vhen, were good!

By Jamil R

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May 20, 2020

language is not clear always ..it can be better

By Joseph G R M

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Jul 28, 2020

I didn't understand clearly the use of proof

By RAJ K S

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Aug 23, 2020

Explanations not clear

By YIHONG J

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Jun 17, 2020

The course is fun!

By JAMI S V L T

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Nov 30, 2020

Good Mind teasers

By DELA C J K (

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Mar 25, 2020

HARD

By Araik B

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Dec 28, 2020

I came out of that with a 100% and was confused from start to finish. Some of the classes did help in regards to the other programming class I took.

The beginning message that you do not need to know anything other than algebra and basic math was way off.

I don't feel like i got much out of this specific one but it is part of a package so we will see how the rest develop - usually its by the last class im like OH THIS IS WHY