I'm a senior who could technically graduate now, but am considering staying for an extra year to pick up a CS degree. I took 280 this semester. Hadn't taken ENG101 or EECs183 here cause I took it at a community college over the summer. I didn't think the material was inherently too difficult, but I didn't like the layout of the class.
5 projects/2 exams are your main workload. The projects require a LOT of time. And if you eff anything up, you get zero feedback to learn from since they use an autograder and want to reuse the projects every semester, Basically, they grade you harshly then don't explain what you did wrong because they don't want to come up with new projects. Honestly, I think it's kinda ridiculous that you can eff up one line of code and get an awful grade cause it changes the output just ever so slightly. I guess you could argue that a company doesn't care how close to being correct your code is if it doesn't 100% work. But still, this is an intro course. Cut some slack.
I went to office hours a couple times for the projects and both times I ended up waiting for 2 hours for help because there were so many kids there. First time I figured out what I was doing wrong within the 2 hours, and the second time I ended up receiving help from a dude who, by his words, "hadn't looked at C++ in months." It's a big class, so unless you go to one of the very early office hours on the weekends, don't expect too much individual help.
Exams are pretty standard for a weeder course. If the avg is too high on the first one, they'll make the second one really tough. I don't think they should be too bad if you knew how to do the projects.
Overall though, I don't think it was a good class. Zero feedback on anything, and it's tough to get any individual help. Maybe I'm bitter cause I got a C+ and it was my worst grade since I was a frosh, but still, I def think there are some issues.
I'm a senior who could technically graduate now, but am considering staying for an extra year to pick up a CS degree. I took 280 this semester. Hadn't taken ENG101 or EECs183 here cause I took it at a community college over the summer. I didn't think the material was inherently too difficult, but I didn't like the layout of the class.
5 projects/2 exams are your main workload. The projects require a LOT of time. And if you eff anything up, you get zero feedback to learn from since they use an autograder and want to reuse the projects every semester, Basically, they grade you harshly then don't explain what you did wrong because they don't want to come up with new projects. Honestly, I think it's kinda ridiculous that you can eff up one line of code and get an awful grade cause it changes the output just ever so slightly. I guess you could argue that a company doesn't care how close to being correct your code is if it doesn't 100% work. But still, this is an intro course. Cut some slack.
I went to office hours a couple times for the projects and both times I ended up waiting for 2 hours for help because there were so many kids there. First time I figured out what I was doing wrong within the 2 hours, and the second time I ended up receiving help from a dude who, by his words, "hadn't looked at C++ in months." It's a big class, so unless you go to one of the very early office hours on the weekends, don't expect too much individual help.
Exams are pretty standard for a weeder course. If the avg is too high on the first one, they'll make the second one really tough. I don't think they should be too bad if you knew how to do the projects.
Overall though, I don't think it was a good class. Zero feedback on anything, and it's tough to get any individual help. Maybe I'm bitter cause I got a C+ and it was my worst grade since I was a frosh, but still, I def think there are some issues.
I'm a senior who could technically graduate now, but am considering staying for an extra year to pick up a CS degree. I took 280 this semester. Hadn't taken ENG101 or EECs183 here cause I took it at a community college over the summer. I didn't think the material was inherently too difficult, but I didn't like the layout of the class.
5 projects/2 exams are your main workload. The projects require a LOT of time. And if you eff anything up, you get zero feedback to learn from since they use an autograder and want to reuse the projects every semester, Basically, they grade you harshly then don't explain what you did wrong because they don't want to come up with new projects. Honestly, I think it's kinda ridiculous that you can eff up one line of code and get an awful grade cause it changes the output just ever so slightly. I guess you could argue that a company doesn't care how close to being correct your code is if it doesn't 100% work. But still, this is an intro course. Cut some slack.
I went to office hours a couple times for the projects and both times I ended up waiting for 2 hours for help because there were so many kids there. First time I figured out what I was doing wrong within the 2 hours, and the second time I ended up receiving help from a dude who, by his words, "hadn't looked at C++ in months." It's a big class, so unless you go to one of the very early office hours on the weekends, don't expect too much individual help.
Exams are pretty standard for a weeder course. If the avg is too high on the first one, they'll make the second one really tough. I don't think they should be too bad if you knew how to do the projects.
Overall though, I don't think it was a good class. Zero feedback on anything, and it's tough to get any individual help. Maybe I'm bitter cause I got a C+ and it was my worst grade since I was a frosh, but still, I def think there are some issues.
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I'm a senior who could technically graduate now, but am considering staying for an extra year to pick up a CS degree. I took 280 this semester. Hadn't taken ENG101 or EECs183 here cause I took it at a community college over the summer. I didn't think the material was inherently too difficult, but I didn't like the layout of the class.
5 projects/2 exams are your main workload. The projects require a LOT of time. And if you eff anything up, you get zero feedback to learn from since they use an autograder and want to reuse the projects every semester, Basically, they grade you harshly then don't explain what you did wrong because they don't want to come up with new projects. Honestly, I think it's kinda ridiculous that you can eff up one line of code and get an awful grade cause it changes the output just ever so slightly. I guess you could argue that a company doesn't care how close to being correct your code is if it doesn't 100% work. But still, this is an intro course. Cut some slack.
I went to office hours a couple times for the projects and both times I ended up waiting for 2 hours for help because there were so many kids there. First time I figured out what I was doing wrong within the 2 hours, and the second time I ended up receiving help from a dude who, by his words, "hadn't looked at C++ in months." It's a big class, so unless you go to one of the very early office hours on the weekends, don't expect too much individual help.
Exams are pretty standard for a weeder course. If the avg is too high on the first one, they'll make the second one really tough. I don't think they should be too bad if you knew how to do the projects.
Overall though, I don't think it was a good class. Zero feedback on anything, and it's tough to get any individual help. Maybe I'm bitter cause I got a C+ and it was my worst grade since I was a frosh, but still, I def think there are some issues.
I'm a senior who could technically graduate now, but am considering staying for an extra year to pick up a CS degree. I took 280 this semester. Hadn't taken ENG101 or EECs183 here cause I took it at a community college over the summer. I didn't think the material was inherently too difficult, but I didn't like the layout of the class.
5 projects/2 exams are your main workload. The projects require a LOT of time. And if you eff anything up, you get zero feedback to learn from since they use an autograder and want to reuse the projects every semester, Basically, they grade you harshly then don't explain what you did wrong because they don't want to come up with new projects. Honestly, I think it's kinda ridiculous that you can eff up one line of code and get an awful grade cause it changes the output just ever so slightly. I guess you could argue that a company doesn't care how close to being correct your code is if it doesn't 100% work. But still, this is an intro course. Cut some slack.
I went to office hours a couple times for the projects and both times I ended up waiting for 2 hours for help because there were so many kids there. First time I figured out what I was doing wrong within the 2 hours, and the second time I ended up receiving help from a dude who, by his words, "hadn't looked at C++ in months." It's a big class, so unless you go to one of the very early office hours on the weekends, don't expect too much individual help.
Exams are pretty standard for a weeder course. If the avg is too high on the first one, they'll make the second one really tough. I don't think they should be too bad if you knew how to do the projects.
Overall though, I don't think it was a good class. Zero feedback on anything, and it's tough to get any individual help. Maybe I'm bitter cause I got a C+ and it was my worst grade since I was a frosh, but still, I def think there are some issues.
I'm a senior who could technically graduate now, but am considering staying for an extra year to pick up a CS degree. I took 280 this semester. Hadn't taken ENG101 or EECs183 here cause I took it at a community college over the summer. I didn't think the material was inherently too difficult, but I didn't like the layout of the class.
5 projects/2 exams are your main workload. The projects require a LOT of time. And if you eff anything up, you get zero feedback to learn from since they use an autograder and want to reuse the projects every semester, Basically, they grade you harshly then don't explain what you did wrong because they don't want to come up with new projects. Honestly, I think it's kinda ridiculous that you can eff up one line of code and get an awful grade cause it changes the output just ever so slightly. I guess you could argue that a company doesn't care how close to being correct your code is if it doesn't 100% work. But still, this is an intro course. Cut some slack.
I went to office hours a couple times for the projects and both times I ended up waiting for 2 hours for help because there were so many kids there. First time I figured out what I was doing wrong within the 2 hours, and the second time I ended up receiving help from a dude who, by his words, "hadn't looked at C++ in months." It's a big class, so unless you go to one of the very early office hours on the weekends, don't expect too much individual help.
Exams are pretty standard for a weeder course. If the avg is too high on the first one, they'll make the second one really tough. I don't think they should be too bad if you knew how to do the projects.
Overall though, I don't think it was a good class. Zero feedback on anything, and it's tough to get any individual help. Maybe I'm bitter cause I got a C+ and it was my worst grade since I was a frosh, but still, I def think there are some issues.
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