# Sam Pazicni — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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Sam Pazicni

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    "comment": "Pazinci was great. He is very knowledgeable and does a great job teaching. I would prefer if the lectures were less slideshows but regardless he is pretty great.",
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    "comment": "Around 20 pages of reading weekly, pre-class work is painful but does help slightly with understanding lecture. Homework isn't bad at all. The worst part was the exams, very little feedback on why certain things get marked wrong. You might get the problem correct but get half credit because you didn't include a word or two. Pazicni didnt help much",
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    "comment": "This professor is okay. Highly recommend reading the online textbook (you don't have to purchase a textbook). Study a lot for the exams, but the lecture videos are always posted by him and the other professors if you miss a class. If you have extra time, the honors group project is easy and a good way to get to know other people and the professor.",
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    "comment": "Prof. P is nice but don't expect the course is easy. Lots of work need to do every week. I would suggest to take 104 instead of 109. I have different opinion for the project, yeah sure it's not hard and Prof. P is nice on grading it but it wouldn't give you a huge curve as you may expect, better to pay effort to every week's work you require to do.",
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