I don't think some of these reviews are being fair. Yeah, all the material is pre-recorded videos, but this is an online course... so you get what you sign up for. Thrower is a really nice guy who was super accessible in office hours. The exams were pretty hard though. A lot of the MC felt like "gotcha" questions.

online lectures are almost 2 hours per lecture when they're supposed to be 50 mins, confusing explanations. tests are a memorization game where he asks the last idea of a bullet point on his 167th slide or something like that. lectures are just him reading off his screen. wouldn't recommend and didnt learn much, just memorized a lot of stuff lol.

Lectures are dense, but with the free textbook and engaging study sessions, you can grasp the concepts. Using ChatGPT and unstuckstudy for practice questions really helped me prepare. Exams are challenging, but the curve makes it manageable. Overall, a worthwhile class.

nice guy but you watch his lecture videos and gives the most bare minimum explanation for every concept that he teaches. his online videos were extremely hard to follow and requires 3x the amount of time and effort to understand what he is trying to say. on top of his convoluted teaching, exams were extremely vague and ambiguous.

I can tell he is very knowledgable, but he really isn't made for teaching online. You know its bad when he holds a whiteboard up to his camera. His tests questions felt very vague and open ended. He was available for office hours but it took him forever when answering questions. Sections depend on the TA but don't miss that unique info in them.

Dr. Thrower is a good professor and always tries to help everyone in the class. The lectures are very long and dense. The course is graded on problem sets, midterms and a final. It was a bit difficult to understand the material at times, not sure if it was the way the professor taught it, or whether it was just the material itself.