ENVIRON 175
Programming with Big Environmental Datasets
Description: Lecture, three hours. Requisite: Life Sciences 40 or Statistics 12 or 13. Students gain practical experience conducting empirical research by learning how to program using R. Modern empirical research often requires use of powerful statistical software like R. This programming language shares many similarities with other statistical programs, providing students with valuable labor-market skill. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Spring 2024 - Professor Barreca is great. It's rare nowadays to find a professor who actually cares about student learning and is just focused on teaching their students the material rather than literally gatekeeping helpful info to make the tests confusing. If you pay attention in this class and go through all the modules you will learn and you will do well on the Projects. Class structure: Pre-class coding assignment (2 per week) which took no more than an hour. Very easy you literally just follow along to a module that Barreca made and copy your code in. Easy to just skip through and copy the code but I recommend actually going through it and reading everything so that you understand what you're doing and what everything is for. Otherwise you'll be screwed for the projects. 1 pt. Attendance is taken but you get 5 free passes of absence with no explanation. Taken via Slido participation, 1 pt. Assignments that you do at the end of class worth 4 pts each. Mimic what you did for the pre-class assignment and is just practice. Can ask classmates for help if you need. You also get a free pass on 5 of these. One "escape room" which is literally just you going through how you download stuff with the TA to make sure ur doing it right which is 4 pts and absolutely nothing to worry about don't view it as a quiz or anything cuz it's not. Two midterm projects and 1 Final Projects. Midterm projects you can help each other with but the Final you do on your own. These are gucci if you actually went through the modules, but be careful because he takes points of if you do anything different than what he does in the modules. Ex. if you've ever coded before and have some habits already, LOSE THEM. I lost points for using one-line comments instead of block comments like he does... which was kind of BS but whatever. The midterm projects are worth 8 points each and the Final is 20 pts. Overall good and easy class and would take again. I really did learn a lot about coding and I didn't previously consider myself interested in it.
Spring 2024 - Professor Barreca is great. It's rare nowadays to find a professor who actually cares about student learning and is just focused on teaching their students the material rather than literally gatekeeping helpful info to make the tests confusing. If you pay attention in this class and go through all the modules you will learn and you will do well on the Projects. Class structure: Pre-class coding assignment (2 per week) which took no more than an hour. Very easy you literally just follow along to a module that Barreca made and copy your code in. Easy to just skip through and copy the code but I recommend actually going through it and reading everything so that you understand what you're doing and what everything is for. Otherwise you'll be screwed for the projects. 1 pt. Attendance is taken but you get 5 free passes of absence with no explanation. Taken via Slido participation, 1 pt. Assignments that you do at the end of class worth 4 pts each. Mimic what you did for the pre-class assignment and is just practice. Can ask classmates for help if you need. You also get a free pass on 5 of these. One "escape room" which is literally just you going through how you download stuff with the TA to make sure ur doing it right which is 4 pts and absolutely nothing to worry about don't view it as a quiz or anything cuz it's not. Two midterm projects and 1 Final Projects. Midterm projects you can help each other with but the Final you do on your own. These are gucci if you actually went through the modules, but be careful because he takes points of if you do anything different than what he does in the modules. Ex. if you've ever coded before and have some habits already, LOSE THEM. I lost points for using one-line comments instead of block comments like he does... which was kind of BS but whatever. The midterm projects are worth 8 points each and the Final is 20 pts. Overall good and easy class and would take again. I really did learn a lot about coding and I didn't previously consider myself interested in it.
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