I disagree with others here --- I wasn't a huge fan of the class.
If you took the class, you definitely had to get used to coding in python, and getting used to manipulating data in python.
However, when it came time to do anything more interesting than plotting data, the course was very shallow --- many homework assignments boiled down to "fill in this space with a function that takes this as input and outputs that". While, again, that would totally be useful to someone learning basic scientific python, you don't get a good understanding of the statistics.
As someone who already had a background in python, I didn't feel I learned as much.
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I disagree with others here --- I wasn't a huge fan of the class.
If you took the class, you definitely had to get used to coding in python, and getting used to manipulating data in python.
However, when it came time to do anything more interesting than plotting data, the course was very shallow --- many homework assignments boiled down to "fill in this space with a function that takes this as input and outputs that". While, again, that would totally be useful to someone learning basic scientific python, you don't get a good understanding of the statistics.
As someone who already had a background in python, I didn't feel I learned as much.
Did you take 109B, the second semester course? Or did you take it when it was only one semester?
First semester course only --- so it's now two semesters? Is it better?
I think it is far more comprehensive, based on being a student in the one semester version and thrice a TF in the two semester version.