The class was genuinely hard, harder than other profs from what I have seen. He is an actually good prof though and cares about making sure that his students learn the concept, lectures are genuinely effective. Just make sure you are doing the labs right.

It is impossible to know what going to be on the test, so you have to search everything he taught you outside. And in that process, you will learn a lot of new things and be better. (prof's intent) no study guide. Labs is hard, but its fun. Use paper to take note. He did big curve (really good). Be prepared to run a function on paper.

do you people expect him to just tell you how to do the labs in lecture? is that your definition of a “good lecturer”? if you actually pay attention and understand what he's trying to teach, and then make a genuine effort to apply the concepts and do the labs yourself, you'll learn a ton. unbelievable how people do not even try to use their brains

RUN. This class is like taking 3 classes at once. What we learn in lecture (1) has nothing to do with the labs (2) and nothing to do with the exams (3). Exams show that he does not know how to test computer science knowledge. Most people GPTd this class. Exam avgs are around ~45%, and he does not even moderately believe that is his fault.

He started including quizzes along with his difficult labs. The quizzes weren't too difficult but the grading is pretty harsh. He doesn't post lecture material anywhere, so you can't miss it.

Very difficult class, but overall I learned a lot. Graded on weekly labs and 3 quizzes, the labs were difficult (were either pretty easy or insanely difficult). OH were helpful to go to. The quizzes aren't too bad, but they're on paper and not forgiving of minor mistakes. you can't do bad on the quizzes.