Professor Basit is super sweet and really cares about her students. If you're struggling, she provides a ton of opportunities to improve your grade (extra credit, dropped quizzes, earning pts back on exams) and is also very understanding about absences provided you put in the effort to communicate. The programming hw assignments can be a bit time-consuming, but they definitely help supplement the content taught in class. There are two exams and one final project (no final exam, which is great if you have a busy finals season). Definitely recommend!

Pretty good intro course, fairly easy I would say. Only thing is there were in class activities most lectures for attendance, so you couldn't really skip, even though the lectures were a little redundant sometimes. You could do corrections for the two big exams, and the final was a project. Some of the homework assignments were somewhat difficult.