CS 1112

Professor Cohoon is an outstanding CS teacher who makes an intro course to CS understandable and less intimidating. I'd 100% recommend taking the class with him even if you aren't a CS person. He also is very approachable and helped me get into the CS major when I thought I had waited too late to do it.

I thoroughly enjoyed taking CS 1112 with Professor Cohoon, to the extent that it convinced me to major in Computer Science. The class is pretty intuitive, and Professor Cohoon encourages and welcomes all questions you may have during lecture. He is also very flexible on assignments and tests are simple and straightforward.

This course was legitimately the best! I took this course in the fall of my first-year and it was a lot of fun. I had friends taking 1110 (an equivalent course) and they had a lot more work than me with a lot less guidance. Prof. Cohoon encouraged asking questions and I never felt embarrassed asking him/the TAs about the material. I also never had a lot of homework, I was able to do the homework assignments in class. There were no weekly quizzes/practice question sets. The layout of his website was easy to navigate and he gave you all the tools you needed to learn the material. The exams were also very doable, he based the content off of previous homework assignments. I'm in the process of pursuing a BACS because of this class! Could not recommend it enough (esp. if you want a fun intro to CS or a class to fulfill a prereq requirement). #tCFfall2021

Professor Cohoon is such a great instructor and you'll learn so much from this class. I would recommend every student here takes it, seriously. The homework assignments are not hard at all, but some require a little more thinking than others, especially the ones toward the end of the semester. The tests are pretty easy if you just go over homework assignments. Plus we didn't have to take the final if we did well on the first two exams so that was great.

Cohoon was very energetic but out most semester due to health issues so it was a weird class. This class was very unorganized, even when Cohoon was there which made it really hard to learn. The TAs that ended up teaching the course did not always seemed prepared. Your grade is mostly the 2 tests which are decently difficult. You aren't allowed to use any existing work to guide you. The second test is much harder than the first but things are manageable. You are given time for homework so that is nice. Some of the TAs are really helpful but some are as clueless as the students taking the class. If you have CS experience, this course will be a breeze. Even though this class is meant for people will no coding experience, many people in the class had coding experience and the class was nothing for them. Not many people show up to class even though lecture is important, but lectures are also recorded. Given it was a weird semester, I do not think my experience of the course will be similar to others.