Advice to incoming freshman from a graduating senior

[Vladenschlutte]

To offer a different opinion on this topic, I tutored quite a few students in 310 material across different semesters, and I noticed that Cohn focuses very heavily on modeling. As a result, she doesn’t have much time to teach the more algorithmic side of the course. Thus, it really depends on what you like as a student. Personally, I’m glad that I didn’t take the course with Cohn as I was more interested in learning how different optimization methods worked, rather than practicing modeling techniques.

You can learn more about the algorithms in 510 if you want. I took 310 and 510 simultaneously which was nice. In one you get more of the modeling and in the other you get the algorithms.