CS 1110

This class was interesting. I liked using python and learning about coding.
Stone is good at doing live coding, but doesn't do a whole lot of conceptual explanations. This was really felt on the exams, which were kind of hard but not too difficult.
Homeworks were pretty easy until spring break, after which they got harder as we did more data structures (lists, dictionaries).

The lectures themselves were not difficult to understand and Derrick is super open to asking questions. If anyone is confused he tries his best to explain it, but usually does it in a complicated way, but he'll try his best to help everyone understand. There are weekly quizzes, programming assignments, labs, and readings, but I never did the readings and did just fine. There are only two exams throughout the semester. The professors were super lenient about missing exams (the final exam grade would be used) and quizzes/labs (some of them would be dropped. The PAs were not difficult until the end, but I would definitely recommend going to office hours. In my opinion, the exams were not too difficult, but other people in the class really struggled with them. The questions include things that are not gone in over in detail in class, but they are definitely mentioned. The exams tended to focus more on the details of the methods and functions used, and only a few questions about the overall structure/usage of them. I would recommend going to class and actually paying attention. A key thing that helped in my studying was just checking what random modifications would do to how the code functions, and really understanding what can be tested in the code.