Very lenient, chill guy. Extends due dates, made our exams online and open note/compiler, and gave generous extra credit. Projects and tests were manageable, but previous coding experience helps a TON. His lectures are confusing and he went on tangents, so you may not learn that much from him. Overall good class tho.

Bruce was such a fun professor and he's a really nice guy who cares. However, I didn't really learn that much from lectures and more drew from previous knowledge. He was super fair with grades and gave very generous extra credit. His CS31 class was generally on the easier side so IDK how well it prepares you for CS32 since I didn't take it (but I did hear people who had Bruce struggled more). Discussions aren't mandatory which was nice, but doing the optional worksheets on my own time definitely helped.

Huang is the best! He's an excellent professor with engaging lectures and lots of experience in the field (IBM executive). When I took this class, it was very very easy. There's a midterm, a final, and 7 projects. The projects are mostly very straightforward, except for the 3rd, which was much more complex than the others. He does have a bit of an accent, but he's easy to understand after a couple days.

I really like professor Huang. I think he takes a great approach to teaching an introductory computer science, coming from somebody with no experience. He is, however, very intelligent which makes it difficult to bring simple questions to class because he can't simplify them. The tests and projects are challenging, but if you have good time management skills you will be fine. This is not work that can be done a few days before the deadline.

If you have no prior coding experience, I would suggest not to take CS 31 with Huang if you have any other options. I took him for winter, but had to drop week 9 because I had no fucking clue what was going on in class. He stutters a lot and can barely get out a coherent sentence. He's difficult to understand and he often leaves out little details that would make the material easier to understand. He's a bit all over the place. As I write this, I'm currently taking CS 31 with Stahl over the summer and he has been great. 10x better than Huang. Anyway, Huang just isn't a great lecturer. You can tell he likes teaching the class and is passionate about CS in general, but he just isn't an effective lecturer.

I took this class after receiving a recommendation from one of my CS major friends. Although I was very intimidated by the fact that this class is taught in C++, Dr. Huang helped eliminate some of my worries. I agree with the fact that he is super kind and knowledgeable in CS as a whole, but what some users failed to mention is that he sometimes has poor communication. Dr. Huang certainly does his best to be accommodating to students, but depending on what else he has going on in his life, he will sometimes take weeks to respond to emails. Although he can take a while to respond, he has always resolved my issues and concerns regarding the course. All in all, I highly recommend Dr. Huang!

Okay so as someone who has done a year of high school coding Java this class was cake. It was a bit of a learning curve with C++ but they are very similar. I barely had to attend lectures/discussions except for in the beginning. However, I agree with another review I saw that if you have never coded before Huang is a little challenging. I would definitely utilize discussion time as mine was pretty much 2 hours of office hours. You can get plenty of help in this class especially since piazza is available and people respond super quick. Huang also realized people were struggling with grades at some point and added extra credit quizzes and extra points to the final and also moved our midterm online bc we wanted it to be. He cares a lot about cs and his students just really make sure u attend lectures and utilize discussions and piazza for project help if you have never coded before!

Listen, if you don't have coding experience do not take this class. All the good things you're hearing about Huang are from people who already know how to code. I have never coded before and Huang made this class so unnecessarily stressful and difficult. His lectures were extremely boring, hard to follow, and plain unhelpful. He clearly did not know how to teach coding at a beginner level. His tests aren't hard but he doesn't teach well enough for the content that is on them. The midterm was taken during week 4 or 5 and wasn't graded until week NINE. And even then some people's tests weren't even fully graded. I got a C- on the midterm which was around the average which was so nerve wracking and stressful since the final was two weeks later. Luckily he offered an extra credit quiz for up to 12 points on the midterm which alleviated some stress. The only reason I ended with an A is because we were allowed a cheat sheet on the final and I had exactly what was on the final and exactly an all-or-nothing 10 point extra credit question written on my cheat sheet so I ended up getting a 102 on the final. As for projects, his specs are actually TERRIBLE. He is so bad at explaining what he wants which results in the project averages to sometime be in the 70s and 80s. But again, if you have done programming before you will get an A, but if not it will be unnecessarily stressful.