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O professor não tem tempo para dar tudo. A visita à TAP foi bastante útil. Fica a saber que na coa de pás, o regime é eventualmente não estacionário. Boa cadeira, percebeu ou não

The best classes I ever had. Never laughed no much. Iconic!!! Best use of my time. The evaluations are easy. Just read the powerpoints, solve some exercises and go with God. Make something up on the theoretical questions and you are golden

Classes with the GOAT!! Heat transfer is a bit unfair when marking the "Homework". Also there are no Homeworks, as there are just Projects with a funny mask

This course has the best professor ever, Rui Baptista, his problems classes were especially useful and greatly contributed towards my success on this course. Besides that, he taught me very well the plasticity criteria called von-tresca in his also great theoretic classes. His maps were also very well made and also also very comprehensive in the reviews.

Labs are absurd. The main teacher rarely explains anything. Complicated concepts are barely explained, as the students are expected to already know concepts they have never heard before, such as calculations with complex numbers. Phasors, an essential concept is explained very poorly. Furthermore, any questions are answered with " Horário de dúvidas". The office hours are a joke, where the main teacher just tells us to think. The other professors are decent though, shame they are limited to some office hours and the labs. Also there are no problem classes, and in theoretical pratical classes barely any problems are solved

Best professor i have ever had! He is amazing teacher.

The teaching is heavily based on case studies (13 full pages + on notes average) to read at home and discuss in class, seldom on problem sets. Bi-weekly. Participating in class discussion is graded, reflecting 20% of the final grade. The written exams are not very difficult tho. Course content is very interesting, maybe a bit redundant towards the end, I would definitely recommend this course if you are into VC or entrepreneurship. I would say the weekly workload is high, but worth it.

The slides are not 100% complete with all of the things, they have the most important concepts and content but still you need to go to classes to be able to complete whatever information professors add in class. Going to Practical sessions helps you reinforce what was talked in theoretical as well as do exercises which is really important for the course. Overall you are not going to have trouble in this course.

I found this course quite dense. The practical classes are literally just like the theoretical ones, we do not do any exercises.

This is the easiest course in Nova. Content is relatively simple and the midterms and exams are literally a copy of the problem set. I highly reccommend this course as an elective to increase your GPA.

I did not enjoy this course. The content is quite hard to grasp and it is super abstract. The theoretical classes are not helpful, but the practical ones are (especially with Marlon). This is useful of you want to follow economics or want to be challenged, otherwise I would not reccommend it.

The course content is interesting but the midterm and exam can be quite hard especially the multiple choice and advanced group. The group works are easy to get a good grade.

An excellent course overall: light and enjoyable, yet still interesting and stimulating. The professor is very engaging, even if some parts of the content sometimes feel a bit repetitive. The group project is motivating and not overly difficult, while the three individual assignments throughout the course are manageable and do not require a significant time commitment. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone looking for something relatively relaxed but still engaging.

The professor is very engaging, although some of the content can be difficult to fully understand at times. The hybrid structure of the course, with online and in-person sessions, makes it quite challenging, especially for students without a solid background in statistics. The final exam is open book, but it is not particularly easy.

The course is fairly interesting overall. The group project is relatively easy and students generally receive good grades. The final exam is long and somewhat complex, but with good preparation it can be managed.

This was probably the least useful course I attended this year. The professor was very monotonous, and there was little actual teaching, as the course mainly consisted of student group presentations. The group projects did not receive particularly good grades, and almost no feedback was provided. The exam preparation was also quite frustrating, as it required studying nearly 200 pages of unstructured and poorly coordinated material collected from various academic papers.

The professor is excellent: very clear, engaging, and effective at explaining concepts. Although he does not provide slides or additional supporting materials, full recordings of the lectures are made available, which is very helpful. The overall purpose and structure of the course are not always entirely clear, but a variety of interesting topics are discussed throughout the semester. A basic understanding of microeconomics is useful in order to follow the lectures more comfortably. The group assignments are simple and quick to complete. The midterm was somewhat challenging, while the final exam was comparatively easier.

The professor is very engaging and knowledgeable. Although the course was presented as advanced, the content itself did not cover many particularly new or innovative concepts. The group project was extremely demanding and, in the end, did not fully reward the effort invested, as grades were determined based on the relative ranking of each group’s performance. The final exam does not truly assess the knowledge acquired during the course as it mainly focuses on applying a few frameworks and concepts to a case study that is released only 48 hours before the exam.

The course is relatively easy and fairly interesting overall. Attending lectures is not essential, but it is important to stay organized and keep up with the group work throughout the semester. The final exam is slightly more difficult than expected, although still manageable. Final grades are generally between 16 and 17.

The topics are interesting, and the professor is clear and engaging. The individual assignments were relatively easy, and most students received high grades, while the group project was slightly more challenging. The slides often do not include the solutions to the problems discussed in class, so attending lectures is important in order to fully understand the material.

Nice overview of Operations management, easy to get a good grade in the assignments

Exam is open questions, try to keep up with the weekly deadlines of the project otherwise you will strugger in the end

The teacher Rui Henriques is really good. He records the classes and posts them online and explains really well. I almost never looked at the slides, the classes are enough for both the project and the exam. The contents of the course are super interesting. It focuses on how documents for a Retrieval System like Google are stored, indexed and retrieved. It also talks about concepts like LLMs, Web Crawlers and RAG. The project is really open-ended and, even tho is a bit extensive for the time we had to do it, it's good to learn how to apply the concepts we talk about in the theoretical classes. We covered a lot of concepts and algorithms but the exam was quite easy. It's basically just applying the formulas and have an understanding on how the algorithms work. We were allowed to take 2 pages with formulas to the exam. Overall, really good course!

The teacher is ok, you can get by watching the mooc of the course and reading the slides, it’s important to go to the exercise class to understand how the exam questions work because they are subjective, do a lot of previous exams to understand the thought process. The exam is true or false and wrong questions discount 0.2 so it’s nit the best. The project is easy, everything you need is in the teachers website and she encourages people to use the code from there, there is a report template that you just need to fill with your results and analysis

The teacher is good, he explains things in an easy way to understand, the evaluation is 50% two tests, that are easier than the class handouts and 50% a project. The theoretical class slides aren’t helpful and they are confusing but this part is important for the tests, don't focus just on the exercises solved in class. The project can be confusing at first but when you understand the work to do it can be fun, grades are usually good. You don’t need a background in industrial engineering to do the class anyone can do it.

2 Homeworks, 2 Test and 2 Practical Tests (Programming on paper). Very competent teacher but very strict with the academic writing and professionalism.

As aulas práticas costumam ajudar bastante para compreender os exercícios e o que é preciso fazer nos Map's. Os testes costumam ser acessíveis mas os materiais com a matéria ficam um pouco aquém, apesar dos testes resolvidos ajudarem bastante. Estudem pelo Resumos Leic para rever a teórica e façam os testes dos anos anteriores.

Projeto relativamente longo, o exame é relativamente difícil, para prepararem-se para ambos recomendo o CS50.

This course is evaluated with 2 projects, each evaluated by presentations. The first one is very easy, it is about the JEQ. The second one has 4 parts, the first 2 parts are easier then the last ones but overall, they are ok to do.

The teacher is very good! He helps a lot, and he's always available for doubts.\ There are 2 parts for evaluation: A monography about a chosen theme and an exam. The difficult part for the monography is to choose the theme and have a good literature search, the rest is easy. The teacher gives all the slides he presents in the classes, and they are really useful. I advise you to use the slides at the same time as the teacher, so that you can take notes and to know which ones are better for you to bring to the exam

Interesting course with a great professor and engaging classes. Two easy case studies and the exam is open book. The average in the last years was 16, but very easy to get 18.

Awesome teacher. Passionate, friendly, and explains well. Probably the only reason I liked the course, given as the subjects covered are probably obsolete (could be wrong and ignorant). The course focuses on Lisp and Java, and in my year the project was in Julia. We had to implement an extension to the Julia language. If you're looking to really do it yourself, it's not too challenging and if you apply yourself you'll learn along the way (although I must be honest and say that with 0% AI help, it would've probably been more challenging/hard). The course teaches you about extremely specific architectural design decisions in the aforementioned languages and unless you are a complete nerd like me you won't like it at all. Theoreticals = important, labs = irrelevant. Overall I'm just not giving it a 5 due to the limited applicability of what we've learned.

Labs are optional and I didn't go to a single one. Honestly I think it's kind of bad that the teachers just give you a lab guide and basically save themselves more class time but the course was good so I'm not complaining. To me this is the perfect type of course because the exam forces you to actually learn and understand what is going on and what you did in the project (in case you did it, but didn't really do it), and it doesn't ask stupid, way-too-specific questions designed for you to fail. No, it asks fair, important questions that let you freely write and showcase your understanding of the subjects. To me, that's perfect. The teachers were good and the theoretical classes were digestible. Those are important.

Professor sempre empenhado em ajudar e preocupado com a prestação dos alunos. Disponibiliza bastantes materiais de estudo. A matéria é sempre esclarecida nas aulas. Primeiro teste em formato de escolha múltipla não muito vantajoso para os alunos. Recomendo fazer os exercícios disponibilizados pelo professor bem como testes antigos.

Má coordenação entre datas dos testes e entregas de trabalhos. Demasiados elementos de avaliação para o pouco tempo de aprendizagem. Materiais de estudo insuficientes. Professora disponível para esclarecer dúvidas e bastante acessível. Professor demasiado rígido na avaliação. Não deixar acumular o trabalho é a dica!

É necessário estar sempre a par da matéria, não deixar acumular é a dica é praticar muitos testes de anos anteriores. Falta de transparência por parte dos professores sobre materiais essenciais para estudo. Não chega praticar exercícios de shapiro!

Excellent choice for those who want to extend their studies in control. Professor is very sweat and helpful (just like a grandpa). Extra points for classes given in Portuguese. 50%lab 50% mandatory exam. The lab takes some time but the exam is easy and similar every year. Do exams from previous years and you will be fine. Class slides are good, and the book is 30$ and worth it. Do recommend!

Would prefer 2 2h classes instead of 4 1h ones per weak. Very complete syllabus and classes are easy to follow. Professor is very nice and open to feedback/extra help. Be Second stage of the project can go very wrong if not coordinated early between everyone.

É uma cadeira interessante e aprendemos MUITO, até demais para ser só de periodo (acho que vai passar a ser de semestre entretanto), e é muito difícil não vou mentir. Tivemos o professor Tomé que faz as aulas serem um pouco engraçadas e explica bem, mas se quiserem aulas mais sérias vão às do professor Telo. Os PowerPoints não eram os meus favoritos e tínhamos de 'comprar' o livro de exercícios deles (temos um PDF), então não foi a melhor parte. O primeiro teste foi o único fácil e tivemos notas altas e depois daí foi só ladeira abaixo 💔 achei os testes muito mais difíceis mesmo na época de recurso. Os laboratórios são muito fáceis, costumam levar 3 horas, têm relatórios e quizzes bem fáceis, a discussão é mais estressante mas eles deram boas notas, os labs sobem sempre as notas.

As aulas teóricas não faziam diferença, mas podem ser interessantes, todos os exercícios para o exame eram resolvidos nas aulas práticas. Tínhamos acesso a todos os PowerPoints e folhas de exercícios necessários. Tínhamos que fazer excels tediosos a pares para a avaliação continua e levam imenso tempo a serem corrigidos. As dicas é fazer todos os exercícios e exames passados porque seguem estruturas parecidas.

Theoretical Classes → The professor is very chill and clearly enjoys teaching the class. No issues with asking "stupid" questions. However, there are no dedicated lecture slides — he uses random slides from a myriad of other universities. There is a lot of jumping around: from the slides to his tablet, from the tablet to the book, then to the board, then back to another slide from somewhere else. It's hard to follow at times. To make it worse, sometimes he got confused with the theory himself. I would say basic prior knowledge of data structures is needed, nothing else. I would also have liked more examples/exercises on each topic. Lab Classes → Used either for the project or to practice theoretical exercises — the class's choice. Project (divided into 3 separate, smaller projects) → All stages are made available before the classes even start, if I recall correctly. It accounts for 12 points of the overall class grade, with each stage worth 4 points. You can submit your solutions during the normal period (each at a different time during the quarter) or later during the recovery period, in which you can also improve solutions already submitted during the normal period. There is no report, and the smaller projects are the same regardless of when they are delivered (normal or recovery period). Mooshak is used to run your implementation, run tests on it, and calculate your project grade, which you get instantly after submitting. You can also make as many submissions as you want for the same implementation. The professor also helps whenever you're stuck and not getting past a certain number of Mooshak points (whenever some tests fail) — he's great when it comes to that. NOTE: The last stage/smaller project - suffix trees - is definitely the most time consuming. Exam → Not mandatory. Accounts for 8 points of the overall grade. The only thing really missing from this class are dedicated slides. I wouldn't change anything else. Pretty cool professor, if you ask me.

Classes → The professor explains the topics clearly, provides a good number of examples, and clearly enjoys teaching the subject. TIP: Taking notes on how computation and communication complexity is calculated across the various examples helps quite a bit (last four classes).\ \ Exam → The average grade was low — around 11 or 12, if I had to guess, possibly lower. You need to know a lot of small details about OpenMP (especially) and MPI, plus all the other course material, which is a lot of content in my opinion. Additionally, not a single exam solution was made available, apart from the partial one done in class (which really did help — not complaining — but it only touched on a small number of theoretical topics). Project (divided into 3 stages): Sequential Implementation → Very easy — a basic 200-line C file. Supposedly it isn't accounted for in the final grade, its delivery deadline is "optional," but:\ "You'll be deducted 1 point from the final project grade if you don't hand it in on time."\ Also, make sure it's the fastest implementation you can come up with. This will be used to compare with your next implementations. OpenMP Implementation → You'll need to adapt the sequential implementation so multiple threads can contribute to computing the final solution. Not hard at all. Use OpenMP directives whenever possible — avoid doing things "manually". SIMD wasn't mandatory, my group didn't use it. Feedback: The professor didn't explain much about what was wrong, even though he complained a bit. I'm not sure whether the feedback sessions are also run by TAs — they might be more forgiving and guide you better. MPI Implementation → The most time-consuming stage, although it can be done in a relatively short amount of time. You'll need to adapt either your sequential or OpenMP implementation (OpenMP will most likely need to be re-added on top of the modified sequential (now MPI) version for better results, so don't discard it entirely).\ We then had to test our implementation on Deucalion, which was quite troublesome in the last 3–4 days before the deadline. The x86 partition was fully booked — jobs took at least a full day to be scheduled (Yes, scheduled, not run. Runs take 1–2 hours max for most configurations).\ The professor came in clutch, though. The ARM partition was requested (which always had available nodes) and we used it instead. Also, each group's account has a limited number of CPU hours on Deucalion. They don't run out quickly, but they do run out. *Make sure to register all group members' accounts shortly after the login credentials arrive in their emails — these credentials expire, and some groups weren't able to register their colleagues in time. We ended up using two full accounts' worth of CPU hours and would have used more if we'd had access to a third member's (expired) account. Defence: In our case, the professor only asked individual questions. Make sure you know all of the code and the changes you made, especially why* you made them. Note: The professor allowed the class to redo the sequential implementation for both mandatory deliveries and the OpenMP implementation for the final delivery. We ended up improving both, and he was happier with the results.

Testes em papel completamente ultrapassados, professor que é de informática mas parece que não sabe mexer num computador, stores de labs top tho. Dica o Chat e o Claude são as vossas maiores salvações para projetos e explicar matéria

Stores tops, a cadeira em si só não é é excelente por ser química

Cadeira bem aleatória. Os laboratórios eram giros porque era só aparecer e depois responder a duas ou três perguntas em casa (relatórios mais simples que vão fazer na vida, adorei), e depois tinham uma apresentação mais aprofundada sobre uma das aulas práticas que tiveram (aí sim seguia mais o estilo de um relatório). \ Por outro lado, o exame foi muito ingrato.. Podíamos fazer em duas partes ou exame completo, e sinceramente, embora houvesse perguntas repetidas dos outros anos, muitas das novas eram só desnecessárias, e sobre detalhes que nunca na vida alguém se ia lembrar. Do recurso então nem se fala, metade das perguntas eram sobre coisas que nunca tínhamos ouvido falar, imaginem responder! \ No fundo, e mais uma vez para as cadeiras de 3 ECTS da FMUL, é ler os resumos da Letícia, fazer as perguntas dos anos passados, e rezar pelo melhor.

Epa, cadeira mid. 3 ECTS, projeto, relatório, projeto e exame. O nosso ano teve sorte de por o Hugo estar de um lado para o outro em conferências o exame ter sido igual ao do ano passado, por isso foi menos uma preocupação. O projeto é totalmente livre (vantagem ou problema, depende de cada um), mas acaba por ser uma cadeira gira, embora dê trabalho. A matéria teórica também era engraçada, numa espécie de aglomerado de partes de outras que já fomos tendo, mas não foi preciso ir às teóricas para acompanhar; os slides eram suficientes.

Cadeira que podia ter sido super ok, mas como não consegui ir às teóricas não consegui acompanhar como queria. O professor João Folgado é muito bom a explicar, mas ao mesmo tempo um bocado caótico. No fundo é estudar pelos exercícios das aulas e depois fazer exames e exames antigos até não terem mais dúvidas na matéria. Não achei tão intuitiva como MAB, mas também pode ter sido por menos empenho e motivação meus.

É uma opcional de Biomédica incrível! \ Os laboratórios de 3h são cansativos, mas ao mesmo tempo super giros. O primeiro projeto então, com papeis e tesoouras, é como voltar à primária. E o segundo, embora já envolvesse código, também é super interessante. Se gostarem do estudo da interface e de critérios mais humanos para a tomada de certas decisões em design, acho muito boa opção como cadeira opcional. Especialmente tendo em conta que não é nada difícil ter boa nota e, no fundo, conseguem ir às aulas e desanuviar das outras!

Práticas do professor regente, e têm boa nota garantida nos MAPs. O senhor explica bem, ensina-vos a teórica essencial para os exercícios que saem no MAP e ainda vos dá notas importantes para não se esquecerem de coisas que, caso contrário, podiam passar despercebidas. Para estudar em casa usem sempre o manual que existe em pdf, tem montes de exercícios e são exatamente o mesmo estilo dos que saem nas avaliações!\ Acho que a filosofia de "só contar o valor final porque na vida real os empregadores só querem saber dos nossos resultados" é muito injusta, mas ao mesmo tempo é uma cadeira de 3 ECTS e quase oferecida, por isso é darem o vosso melhor mas não se preocuparem muito se se tiverem enganado numa escolha múltipla teórica e por isso não acabarem com o 20.