Ambrosio is a good CS 32 professor! he teaches the material well, and he's a pretty cool guy overall. he does often answer questions in a really confusing way on piazza/emails, but when you talk to him verbally he's a lot clearer. the tests weren't super hard imo--there's three in total, two midterms and a final, and I actually thought the first was the hardest one. the homeworks aren't bad either, though projects can be tougher. I needed a lot of help for projects 3 and 4, and even then I didn't really score super high, because after a certain point I just lost motivation to sincerely work on it lol. he gives 10 points of EC max, and substitutes your lowest exam grade with the average of all of them. the thing to remember about this class is that you have to be careful about submissions!!! he is not lenient at all with late submissions, even if they're one second late / submissions via email in case CCLE isn't working, even if you submit it on time / accidentally submitting the wrong file, etc. it's just a flat 0 if you don't get the correct submission in before the deadline, which happened to me oops. but yeah as long as you don't get 0s on anything I do think this class is pretty doable if you're just looking to pass.

This class was pretty easy, except for project 4. Project 4 was horrible. I had a solid A before project 4 and then I BARELY finished with an A- after. Start project 4 as soon as you get the spec.