This class is hard. OS is hard in general. Tao Yang is really nice, and he wants his students to thrive. His accent is kind of hard to understand, but I got the general gist of things. Study for his tests because they are hard. Like really hard. I got a 30% on the midterm and got a 90% on the final and still got an A in the class.

Exams make up 50% of your overall grade, and are very difficult. Lectures are hard to follow and confusing, but Prof Yang makes slides, lecture recordings, and supplementary textbook chapters all available online to compensate somewhat. Final grade was curved up a decent amount.

Lectures and slides were hard to follow so nobody attended. Midterm / final were open computer but were still pretty hard as they had lots of tricky MCQs. He curved the overall grade pretty generously. Overall, not a fan of his lectures but would take the class for the content.

Workload seems easier than most offerings of 170-- especially compared to Wolski. The labs are actually very doable. Large part of your grade is exams instead of coding, and the midterm was doable but you should definitely study. Slides are good and textbook is also really helpful and aligns with the course content.

Very chill and nice professor. Slides are very organized, and projects aren't too hard.

Awesome class