Ciência de Redes Complexas

A matéria em si achei bastante interessante, mas tanto as aulas teóricas como práticas eram bastante secantes. O problema das teóricas era que os pdfs tinham imensos slides e o professor passava a aula a ler slides, o que se torna bastante repetitivo. Em relação às aulas laboratoriais achei secante porque o professor era inexperiente e não sabia ajudar muito.

As aulas práticas dividem-se em 2 partes, a parte em que resolvemos as fichas de exercicios e a parte em que trabalhamos no projeto. Como as aulas laboratoriais era o momento em que podiamos trabalhar no projeto e obter feedback direto,...

The lectures were interesting and we got to work on our project in the lab classes which made the workload much more manageable.

The exam is very theoretical, but it has some similar questions each year, so I advise you to look at past exams (some of which are provided by the teachers) during your study.

Practical teacher amazing

A very comprehensive course in terms of applicability and areas. Basically, graph theory applied to networks with thousands/millions of nodes. We learned about various types of networks and propagation models, communities, etc. Generally speaking, it is quite interesting and applicable to areas ranging from epidemiology to transport.

The assessment component is divided between a project and an exam. The difficulty of the project lies in the breadth of the assignment; there is no defined final objective or minimum set of tasks. The project consists in choosing a topic from a vast list of...

The course is very well structured and professor Francisco is honestly amazing. His lectures are very interesting and one can see he's very passionate about the topic. I found graph theory interesting and little prior knowledge is actually required to follow the course. I'd say you shall only have a good grasp of python programming (even though I think you can develop the project in other programming languages). The project per se is interesting, you're given a series of papers from which you can choose one to replicate, even though personal suggestions or twists are highly appreciated. Note...

The professor is super chill, the projects are open-ended and simple, and the exam is really not hard at all. I found all the topics interesting:

• Game Theory
• 'Virus modeling' (can’t remember the exact name, but it was very simple and fun)
• Graphs - which seem complex because he gives a bunch of formulas to support the logic, but he says you don’t need to memorize them — and it’s true!

10/10 would recommend.