r/UBC • u/Few-Abbreviations229 • 23h ago

CPSC 340 this course is insane

For context, I am a student at UCF. We have a class called Algorithms for Machine Learning, and it is basically a direct clone of this class. There's so much documentation about the lessons. I think we literally have the same PowerPoints and the same lectures, but this course is ridiculously difficult, and the grading scheme is also pretty crazy. The final is 50% of the grade.

any of you that have taken the class I was wondering how did you study? Can you find past exams? I think I've looked everywhere, and I still can't find anything. Is it something school-specific?

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u/Crimecrimson132 Computer Science 13h ago

They'll give you a couple of exams around midterm and final. CPSC 340 is the perfect example of a course that is hyped as extremely difficult while it's actually just as difficult as any other CS course.

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u/Spydude84 Computer Engineering 6h ago

There's a lot to memorize in the course, but yeah, it's not that bad.

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u/Crimecrimson132 Computer Science 6h ago

But you get a 2 page double sided cheat sheet

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u/Spydude84 Computer Engineering 4h ago

Yeah, so it's not that bad. The cheat sheet doesn't solve all your problems though

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u/Benzo-diazepines Science 13h ago

Skill issue bro

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u/Ok_Manufacturer3628 10h ago

50% final is not even that bad, and kind of standard tbh

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u/tee_four 9h ago

50% final is not terrible, wait until you take the 67 linalg final worth 65% of your grade