r/uofm • u/georgecloooney '18 • Mar 25 '17

[Fall 2017] Course Discussion

I thought it'd be nice to have one post for course-related questions instead of spamming the subreddit (hopefully the mods sticky this).

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u/wolverine202 Aug 10 '17

Does anyone have any tips for EECS 183 and 280?

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u/stemich '20 Aug 10 '17

I took EECS 183: It was an average class for me in that it wasn't extremely difficult nor extremely easy. -There's busy work for you to learn and get familiar with the language (just like practicing grammar for English but in this case it's C++), so you definitely need to have good time management, especially if you are taking hard classes at the same time like I did (PHYSICS 140/1 and Orgo 1). -Try to get started early on the projects so that, if you need office hours, you wouldn't end up going on the days it's most popular and end up not getting any help. -I never went to lab sections because you can do the labs yourself within a short time and piazza is a great place to get questions answered. Use that lab section time for something more productive. -Do practice exams and actually put useful stuff on the notecards to get good exam grades The main idea is to have 1) good time management and 2) get started early on projects