If you're considering Venugopal for LS 30A I highly recommend her. I wish someone had told me these things when I enrolled in the class: GO TO OFFICE HOURS. She really clarifies a lot that she misses during lecture and she tells you whats covered on the weekly quizzes/tests during these sessions. They're held right after the class so its convenient to go at least once a week. The tests are really fair. Participation is not a huge part of your grade honestly and there is no homework. Labs are hard but collaboration is encouraged-so make use of that. Lab test is cheese. Easy A if you put in some effort. EC was offered my quarter.

Like others have already mentioned, she is not the greatest at explaining and elaborating on the concepts taught in the class. Luckily, Karan, my TA, was able to really effectively and efficiently break down the concepts for us in almost a quarter of the time spent in the lecture at the start of every lab section. The class itself, on the other hand, is fairly easy and she does provide a solid good amount of extra credit. The tests are often easier than the classes taught by her counterparts and she doesn't collect any homework besides the labs, which are pretty confusing unless you have a really helpful TA. TLDR: If you're looking for an easy class and you can self-study well then take her class; otherwise, I wouldn't recommend it

Being honest, Professor V is not that good of a teacher (only point of lecture is clickers). She spends a lot of lectures reviewing material from the previous lecture and making corny jokes. The textbook is your best bet in actually learning anything and also most of the concepts are pretty easy to understand. Not only that, but the questions that show up on the exam are also easy to solve because they don't ask you about the complex parts of a concept. The TAs for this class are all great so they will also be a good resource. Venugopal posts many practice tests online and gives you lots of resources to succeed. Labs are hard-ish but the TAs and UAs are so helpful! Compared to the other profs, Venugopal's class is technically easier because there's virtually no homework other than labs and she makes her exams a little easier than the other professors. Just read the textbook to learn material and also this quarter at least, she gave a lot of extra credit to help our grades.

Very confusing and contradicted herself frequently

Dr. Venugopal is a great professor, BruinWalk has given her such a terrible reputation. She tries her best to make the lectures are clear and concise as possible. The class has nearly no homework and the tests are extremely fair. Her grading distribution is absolutely amazing, and I would highly suggest you take this course with her.

I do not know why everybody is hating on Dr. Venugopal. She does her absolute best to make sure everyone understands the material and genuinely is concerned over the education of her students. READ THE LECTURE NOTES.

Dr. Venugopal is a very kind and caring woman, but she just isn't that great of a teacher. The concepts in LS30A are not that difficult to understand, but her lectures often just made things more confusing. It's probably best to just read the textbook for this class and use that as your primary source of knowledge. Also, the coding labs got extremely difficult towards the end of the quarter and I dreaded doing them every week. The midterm and final for this class were actually pretty easy, and as long as you do the practice tests posted on CCLE and go over the homework problems she assigns, you should be able to do fine. Her lecture slides can also be pretty helpful to look over when studying, so doing well in the class shouldn't really be a problem because the material isn't really too hard to understand.

You don't need to go to class besides clicker participation. She is nice and tries her best but she just makes the topics more confusing. I skipped class occasionally and learned mostly from reading the textbook and still did well.

This class was pretty good I feel like I learned an adequate amount. The professor itself is very sweet and tries her best to get her point across to all her student whether through her TA's or in her office hours. If you have previous calculus experience then this class should not be too difficult for you.

People always say bad things about Venugopal but she is honestly a pretty cool professor. I will admit she can be a bit confusing at times but if you follow along and pay attention then her lectures make sense. Also, if you took AP Calc AB (like I did) then you should have a pretty easy time in this class because a lot of material covered in AB is in this class in my opinion. Overall, for 30A i would say if you have to take her then it will definitely not be as bad as all the reviews say she is.