Professor
Carey Nachenberg
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Most Helpful Review
Winter 2021 - Nachenberg & Smallberg are legends. Just here to boost their ratings. Fun story: just before the last lecture, I left a message on Slido asking Carey to invite David as a guest host for once. It turned out that Carey did tell David, and we finally got to see both of them (virtually) at the same time. For me, it was probably the best moment of the whole quarter.
Winter 2021 - Nachenberg & Smallberg are legends. Just here to boost their ratings. Fun story: just before the last lecture, I left a message on Slido asking Carey to invite David as a guest host for once. It turned out that Carey did tell David, and we finally got to see both of them (virtually) at the same time. For me, it was probably the best moment of the whole quarter.
Most Helpful Review
Fall 2022 - CS 131 with Carey! I personally didn't take CS 32 with Carey, so I was pretty hyped about this. And honestly, I think it lived up to the hype. The class did remind me CS 32, in terms of the type of content covered and the programming in the class. As a disclaimer, a lot of these criticisms are probably because this was the pilot quarter for the course. Carey will probably improve most of these criticisms in future offerings. The class material isn't difficult, there's just a lot of it. I thought most of it was interesting and cool, you really get a pretty good grasp about how different languages do things differently. His slides are very in-depth and good for self studying. But by the week 6 midterm, there was honestly so much content to review it was a bit of a struggle. If you study early and come prepared with notes (open note/book exams), you will be fine. We have 3 projects in the class, each building off the one before it. The projects were basically implementing an interpreter for a made up language using Python. They did take quite a long time (15-20 hrs), but definitely doable and good just for practicing your programming/code design skills. In future courses, I think he might shorten them a bit or provide more starter code, since a lot of students seemed to take a while on them. Overall very satisfied with the class, glad this course got reworked with Carey!
Fall 2022 - CS 131 with Carey! I personally didn't take CS 32 with Carey, so I was pretty hyped about this. And honestly, I think it lived up to the hype. The class did remind me CS 32, in terms of the type of content covered and the programming in the class. As a disclaimer, a lot of these criticisms are probably because this was the pilot quarter for the course. Carey will probably improve most of these criticisms in future offerings. The class material isn't difficult, there's just a lot of it. I thought most of it was interesting and cool, you really get a pretty good grasp about how different languages do things differently. His slides are very in-depth and good for self studying. But by the week 6 midterm, there was honestly so much content to review it was a bit of a struggle. If you study early and come prepared with notes (open note/book exams), you will be fine. We have 3 projects in the class, each building off the one before it. The projects were basically implementing an interpreter for a made up language using Python. They did take quite a long time (15-20 hrs), but definitely doable and good just for practicing your programming/code design skills. In future courses, I think he might shorten them a bit or provide more starter code, since a lot of students seemed to take a while on them. Overall very satisfied with the class, glad this course got reworked with Carey!
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