I have Charles as my lecturer. He seems really chill and committed to the lecture contents. Most important thing is the group project and powerpoint presentation for 5-10 mins using MATLAB and Latex to create reports which you will spend a lot during later in the semester (25% + 5%). As long as you have a committed and consistent group and continue to ask questions to Charles through email. You can easily can get away doing the tutorials and skim read the lectures and do practise exam papers. They are relatively easy if you have completed MAST20009 Vector Calculus and MAST10006 if necessary. There are 3 Assignments it may vary depending on if your are do the questions manually or using the MATLAB to solve Golden, Fib, Newtons Method, KKT conditions etc... I give it 4 stars because he does not receive messages through LMS through discussion board. Your best option is to email him directly as soon as possible especially the group assignment or else it will be a hard slug.

This subject is quite mixed, with a lot of good stuff, a bit of bad stuff and nothing in between. The lecturer was really friendly, quite funny, and very passionate. Unfortunately, he was quite disorganised (not giving out or giving marks for assignments on time for example), he was often unclear in lectures, and slides contained many errors. The tutorials were pretty much a waste of time as there was no discussion like other maths subjects, and solutions to questions were put online anyway. As for the content, this is a quite easy subject, especially compared with other 3rd year maths subjects. Apart from assignments you can get away with doing very little throughout the semester. The assignments on the whole were too long, mostly with tedious stuff, but they were very easy. The most interesting part of this subject by far was the group assignment. You will probably end up spending a lot of time on it, but it was very interesting getting to do a major assignment in a maths subject. Also, the exam is only 50% which is great if you're used to 80% in most maths subjects!