I think this is pretty instructor-dependent. I had two LinAlg courses, and in the first, I felt like I was building a great intuition. In the second, the instructor seemed to make even the stuff I previously learned seem obtuse and like "facts to memorize."
Maybe linear algebra is more instructor-dependent, since we have fewer preexisting concepts to build on?
Can confirm. My university lecturer walked us through determinants properly and - thank god! - I finally understood what they actually did. I’d been studying linear algebra for a few years by myself and never found an answer explanation that my lecturer gave.
Maybe linear algebra is more instructor-dependent, since we have fewer preexisting concepts to build on?