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YIWEI ZHANG

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Raw average: 4.25/5 from 4 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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CNSRSCI 301
Quality 5/5Difficulty 4/5
She teaches statistics better than some professors in the stats department. Exams are hard but you learn a lot from them. If you like analytics and don't mind 8 am this is a great class.
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CNSR301 · course not matched
Quality 5/5Difficulty 3/5
She is amazing! This semester, this course is entirely online, but the course is still run really well. Even if you haven't taken a stats class before, this course is totally doable. Her examples and her lectures are great, and I found this course to be very interesting. Overall, not too much work, and I would recommend this course to anyone.
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CNSRCI301 · course not matched
Quality 2/5Difficulty 3/5
New teacher in Madison, almost felt as though she was too smart to teach excel. She moved pretty quick sometimes so it can be hard to keep up when she's doing demonstrations with excel, sometimes it was just better to watch and absorb. First half of the course is in excel, the other half is interpreting store data and doing presentations
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CNSRSCI 301
Quality 5/5Difficulty 4/5
(I think) It was Professor Zhang's first semester at UW and she did such a great job! I was dreading this course, but the professor made the material easier to understand, and provided a lot of resources (videos, powerpoints, etc) to use outside of class to help. 3 group projects, but she provided great feedback so we could improve every time!
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Classes with YIWEI ZHANG

COMPSCI 300

Programming II

3 credits

Introduces object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithmic design using Java.

No offering record · Spring 2026

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Ashley SamuelsonLaura Legault+10 more

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Fall 2021–Spring 2026

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TermCourseTitle
Spring 2026COMPSCI 300Programming II
Fall 2025COMPSCI 300Programming II
Fall 2024COMPSCI 570Introduction to Human-computer Interaction
Spring 2024COMPSCI 570Introduction to Human-computer Interaction
Fall 2023COMPSCI 300Programming II
Spring 2023COMPSCI 300Programming II
Fall 2022COMPSCI 300Programming II
Spring 2022COMPSCI 300Programming II
Fall 2021COMPSCI 300Programming II

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