Professor
Yongwei Sheng
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Course structure: Labs every week (with ArcGIS software after week 4) are 30% of your grade. Patrick is an awesome TA and will help you with anything you do not understand about the software. Midterm and Final are each worth 35% of your grade and are administered during lab on weeks 5 and 10. No lectures are held those weeks. Sheng is good as a lecturer and it takes (at least for me it did) about a week to get used to his accent. He is very knowledge and wants everyone to learn as much as they can. He is deeply passionate about the material.
Course structure: Labs every week (with ArcGIS software after week 4) are 30% of your grade. Patrick is an awesome TA and will help you with anything you do not understand about the software. Midterm and Final are each worth 35% of your grade and are administered during lab on weeks 5 and 10. No lectures are held those weeks. Sheng is good as a lecturer and it takes (at least for me it did) about a week to get used to his accent. He is very knowledge and wants everyone to learn as much as they can. He is deeply passionate about the material.
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This class was very challenging after having an easy Professor for Intermediate GIS but with help from the TA & classmates, I was able to do well and I definitely walked away feeling like a GIS expert. Sheng is a very sweet professor who makes lectures decently interesting. The weekly projects are intense and take time but there's no midterm or final. Push yourself and take this class!
This class was very challenging after having an easy Professor for Intermediate GIS but with help from the TA & classmates, I was able to do well and I definitely walked away feeling like a GIS expert. Sheng is a very sweet professor who makes lectures decently interesting. The weekly projects are intense and take time but there's no midterm or final. Push yourself and take this class!
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Spring 2024 - Professor Sheng’s class is known to be one of the most challenging GIS classes in the Geography Department, and this class is no different. However, even though I have no experience in Python, I found this class not impossible to tackle. If you have any coding experience, life would be easier for you. The first few weeks of the class were fast-paced, but the intense lectures lasted until week 7. Afterward, we mainly focused on the group project. The primary portion of the grade was from the lab assignments, which were much more complex than the concepts you learned in the lecture. I spent a lot of time troubleshooting, and I highly recommend you go to office hours, especially the TA one. I would not survive without Chen’s help. The group project setting is not ideal for coding class, but I have learned much from it. All in all, I believe that this class is beneficial, especially for people pursuing a GIS career, but I would warn those who do not have any coding experience to work harder in the first few weeks so they can keep up with the pace of the class. This class is worth taking since it could be a hard skill you earned from your college degree, and you will thank yourself in the future.
Spring 2024 - Professor Sheng’s class is known to be one of the most challenging GIS classes in the Geography Department, and this class is no different. However, even though I have no experience in Python, I found this class not impossible to tackle. If you have any coding experience, life would be easier for you. The first few weeks of the class were fast-paced, but the intense lectures lasted until week 7. Afterward, we mainly focused on the group project. The primary portion of the grade was from the lab assignments, which were much more complex than the concepts you learned in the lecture. I spent a lot of time troubleshooting, and I highly recommend you go to office hours, especially the TA one. I would not survive without Chen’s help. The group project setting is not ideal for coding class, but I have learned much from it. All in all, I believe that this class is beneficial, especially for people pursuing a GIS career, but I would warn those who do not have any coding experience to work harder in the first few weeks so they can keep up with the pace of the class. This class is worth taking since it could be a hard skill you earned from your college degree, and you will thank yourself in the future.
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