This has definitely been one of the best courses I have taken in OMSA. Prof X does a fantastic job of teaching and bringing about engagement. For people that are rusty on their calculus, this class could be difficult. There are quite a few calculations of taking partial derivatives and using the chain rule. The project at the end had no real comments to help you learn from which was disappointing. Each homework was very engaging and made you think. I also liked the structure of not having exams.

I learned more analytical techniques than I expected, and I became familiar with employing them in Python. I expect that I'll return to the lessons - whether via notes or in my mind - over and over in my career. A minority opinion: I think that I would retain the material better if there were an exam or two. My main criticism is that there's no way to learn from mistakes on the final project since no comments are given. Overall, though, this class was well worth the effort.