Professor Chandra was a great lecturer, although his handwriting is hard to understand. He was very helpful in office hours and a really nice guy. However, the structure of his course was incredibly difficult, especially in comparison to the other professors. The exams were worth 70% of our grade, and felt unfairly difficult compared to the homeworks. I did very well on the homeworks and always felt decently confident going into the tests, but I never did super well on the tests (70's range). I was able to get through most of the questions on the tests, but there were little things that I messed up which altered my entire answer and there was not a lot of partial credit. Which, in my opinion, for a proof heavy class, is not a good method of scoring. Overall, I enjoyed the way he taught, but the class was so stressful due to the high weight of the tests in combination with their difficulty that I would not recommend taking this class. One additional note, the homeworks are very long, but I did not find them super difficult, just time consuming.

The course material itself isn't too hard, but Chandra made it pretty difficult to keep up. The weekly homework wasn't too bad, but the TAs weren't helpful and told me to change my correct answers to incorrect ones multiple times, and when I went back to ask them about it, they said they couldn't do anything. Chandra is a nice guy, but not the most engaging lecturer. He also grades very hard and covers harder material than the other classes. The midterms were much harder than those of other professors, and it is not an easy class to get an A or A- in.