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Professor Ramsey is a great guy and engaging and funny lecturer. You can tell he's passionate about the class. However, after seeing so many good reviews implying that the class is super easy, I took this class and was not happy. Prof explains the material well and the homework is super easy and short, BUT (!!!!!!) the midterms and final are TERRIBLE - problems you've never seen before, 10x the difficulty of anything we've gone over in class, and impossible to solve given it's your first time seeing it and you're on a tight time crunch. I studied my ass off and can confidently say I knew all the material we were taught extremely well, but I failed the final because the problems were so unhinged and unexpected. DEFINITELY NOT AN EASY A
Ramsey is a chill professor who will explain anything you ask in real time. He's very clear and it's easy to follow.
Lectures: Recorded, but please go live so Professor Ramsey isn't talking alone. He is very funny.
Content: It's all logic. Literally, it's just logic puzzles for every test problem. The questions refer to content we learned but your ability to reason >>> your studying. specific vocab terms.
Grading: Inconsistent is the best way to describe it. So many custom messages in Gradescope and then points docked for nuances that we never really learned. I don't think the grading was really standardized since the grader would consistently just dock points that didn't exist on the rubric for things I never learned how to do. It was kind of nerve-racking.
Ramsey is the best professor I've had at UCLA. His lectures were very clear, the exams were fair, and the workload is very light. There isn't much more you can ask for.
Ramsey has engaging lectures and teaches very well, however the final exam for this class felt very challenging; I don't think I would've been able to prepare for it adequately given any amount of time. The first and second midterm were in my opinion fair, however. My biggest complaint with this class was that it felt difficult to prepare for Ramsey's exams because of the fact that there weren't many practice problems given that were similar to the exams. Not an easy class whatsoever.
Personally I didn't find this class as easy as everyone else says it is. Prof Ramsey is a great professor, but I found a lot of the content to be challenging (especially some exam problems). It's definitely a different way of thinking compared to calculus, and I struggled with it. So don't go into the class expecting it to be an easy A or whatever
Prof Ramsey is a really cool guy! I would describe him as kind of a funny, awkward guy, but in an endearing way, who cares about his students learning and lectures well. Not sure if it was just burnout on my end, but it seemed like the earlier topics (induction, combinatorics, basic set theory) were better structured and more engaging than the last topic(s) (graph theory). Overall, it's a great class to take as an introduction to discrete math.
Ramsey is a great professor who is engaging and accommodating. He answers any questions thrown his way, whether it be through email or in lecture. I really enjoyed his lectures as well; he goes into depth about topics to help solidify topics and concepts, and his drawings are quirky and entertaining. While the workload this quarter was a little more than normal with weekly quizzes, the quizzes themselves were not difficult and the exams were made easier with less proof and more application!
Professor Ramsey is a great guy and engaging and funny lecturer. You can tell he's passionate about the class. However, after seeing so many good reviews implying that the class is super easy, I took this class and was not happy. Prof explains the material well and the homework is super easy and short, BUT (!!!!!!) the midterms and final are TERRIBLE - problems you've never seen before, 10x the difficulty of anything we've gone over in class, and impossible to solve given it's your first time seeing it and you're on a tight time crunch. I studied my ass off and can confidently say I knew all the material we were taught extremely well, but I failed the final because the problems were so unhinged and unexpected. DEFINITELY NOT AN EASY A
Ramsey is a chill professor who will explain anything you ask in real time. He's very clear and it's easy to follow.
Lectures: Recorded, but please go live so Professor Ramsey isn't talking alone. He is very funny.
Content: It's all logic. Literally, it's just logic puzzles for every test problem. The questions refer to content we learned but your ability to reason >>> your studying. specific vocab terms.
Grading: Inconsistent is the best way to describe it. So many custom messages in Gradescope and then points docked for nuances that we never really learned. I don't think the grading was really standardized since the grader would consistently just dock points that didn't exist on the rubric for things I never learned how to do. It was kind of nerve-racking.
Ramsey is the best professor I've had at UCLA. His lectures were very clear, the exams were fair, and the workload is very light. There isn't much more you can ask for.
Ramsey has engaging lectures and teaches very well, however the final exam for this class felt very challenging; I don't think I would've been able to prepare for it adequately given any amount of time. The first and second midterm were in my opinion fair, however. My biggest complaint with this class was that it felt difficult to prepare for Ramsey's exams because of the fact that there weren't many practice problems given that were similar to the exams. Not an easy class whatsoever.
Personally I didn't find this class as easy as everyone else says it is. Prof Ramsey is a great professor, but I found a lot of the content to be challenging (especially some exam problems). It's definitely a different way of thinking compared to calculus, and I struggled with it. So don't go into the class expecting it to be an easy A or whatever
Prof Ramsey is a really cool guy! I would describe him as kind of a funny, awkward guy, but in an endearing way, who cares about his students learning and lectures well. Not sure if it was just burnout on my end, but it seemed like the earlier topics (induction, combinatorics, basic set theory) were better structured and more engaging than the last topic(s) (graph theory). Overall, it's a great class to take as an introduction to discrete math.
Ramsey is a great professor who is engaging and accommodating. He answers any questions thrown his way, whether it be through email or in lecture. I really enjoyed his lectures as well; he goes into depth about topics to help solidify topics and concepts, and his drawings are quirky and entertaining. While the workload this quarter was a little more than normal with weekly quizzes, the quizzes themselves were not difficult and the exams were made easier with less proof and more application!