Learner Reviews & Feedback for Single Variable Calculus by University of Pennsylvania
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Loved it ! I've grown attached to Prof. Ghrist's lectures, so it is with a heavy heart that I took the final exam and finished this course. I xould really love to take another !
A fantastic course. Kudos to Prof. Ghrist for making this a fun, interesting and challenging ride at the same time. Looking forward to Multivariable Calculus by Prof. Ghrist.
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By Achintya S
•Very challenging, extremely helpful for those who are studying or will study calculus in college.
By Ignacio M A
•Excellent set of courses! I really hope there will be a multivariable course in the same fashion.
By jonas m
•Great course, although quite challenging at parts. Nevertheless, the fruits are rewarding!
By Guo F
•Thank you, prof/g and your team! This is a long & challenging journey, but I enjoyed it!
By Matt J
•This fifth unit is highly original! I loved the "digital calculus" part.
By CMC
•An introduction to numerical analysis was exactly what I need.
By Snehalkumar D P
•It was really wonderful course. Everything was excellent.
By Georgios P
•A course from the future of education!
By Maarten B
•I would highly suggest trying it out!
By maunil c
•professor's explanation is the best.
By Adam R
•So helpful and makes math beautiful
By 키키
•Wonderful course, great journey!
By TANMOY R
•This is very interesting part
By amirali s
•It’s fascinating 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
By Patricia B
•Best calculus course ever.
By Tobias B
•A good intro to calculus
By Lau C C C
•thank you very much
By 吴琦
•Difficult course!
By MOHD. F
•Excellent course
By Michael C
•Great course.
By Nafis F
•Awesome!!!
By EDILSON S S O J
•Amazing!
By Tuan H
•great!
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By Vishal G
•I took the discrete calculus part of the course (part 5 of 5) individually of the rest and the teaching is fine with examples for any concept introduced and links between the unfamiliar discrete calculus and ordinary single variable calculus are made all the time. However, I feel like the course isn't so well named as there is only a week of developing the calculus of sequences and then it goes to standard analysis content - I came for the new content only which was a little disappointing. I will pursue it in the future but there wasn't really any suggestions for further study which I found either. The challenge exercises were great for developing on the subject like with the product rule but there isn't much supporting material for the challenge homework like why the product rule formula is asymmetric.
I feel like the end part of the course should be the discrete calculus exam rather than the 5 part final exam because some may be taking this course individually and might not know some of the content in the final part and so, may not pass the course without using external resources to learn things they didn't learn. The final exam should either only be for people who have completed the four previous parts or a choice if you've only taken some of the five parts.
The course was good and Professor Ghrist is great at teaching; just that he takes a little too long but speeding up makes that fine. The topics never feel like they were underutilised or unimportant; every concept is given practical or theoretical justification for its introduction which is fantastic. It would have been nice to see more applications of discrete calculus as a method to evaluate sums, maybe as exercises? I did enjoy the course too, thanks Professor Ghrist and your team.
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