pray to the bald norwegian god, blop blop, walk the arrow, goated prof love this man and his dog

I came into this class with 0 coding experience, so I think I had a more difficult time than others (it definitely helps having prior experience; if you don't be prepared to put in extra work). Stahl is a very nice, understanding professor but as a lecturer he is very boring. His slides aren't the most helpful and coupled with the 2 hour lectures it was very easy to drift off. The projects were reasonable, with project 3 being the most time consuming/hardest. If you put in the hours and pay great attention to detail, you should be able to score well on all of them, but the projects do take a decent amount of time (the discussion boards on every project were super helpful--I would often go there to read other people's questions/answers clarifying specific parts about the project). That being said, tests are a little different in that you need to know C++ down to every bit. I wasn't prepared for this on the midterm and basically tanked my grade, but reading the textbook helped me majorly score better on the final. I recommend forgetting about the project and really getting to know C++ as a language for this. This class was really difficult to me as everything was super new and unfamiliar, but Stahl is a nice guy to start out your C++ journey with.

The class is easy. he is good with homework. However, that means everyone can get extremely high scores for every project. If you did around average in the exams, probably you will end up with B or B- since there is a curve for the class. I think that is not his fault since CS31 is all curved... He uses the microphone but students in the back can hardly hear his voice..... But his notes is clear and he will talk about homework about 30 mins in the class, which helps a lot for you to understand you project,

Prof. Stahl's lectures are super clear and broken down so that even if you are new to computer science, you will still be able to do very well. The lectures are well-organized and he always uploads the slides to CCLE, which was very helpful. As long as you are careful with projects and follow the specifications, you will be fine. It's hard NOT to do well as long as you go to the lectures and pay attention 70% of the time.

This man is so fucking boring. Wanted to be a CS major, took this course, changed my mind lol. By far the hardest class to stay awake in I've ever taken, I look around the lecture hall and a solid 1/3 of students I saw were sleeping and another 1/3 were playing around on their laptops. Terrible professor!

He was the least helpful person ever.
SUPER CONDESCENDING. Makes you feel stupid for asking questions. i never felt like I could go to his office hours without being judged by him for not knowing everything already.

Before our final, he said 'I don't like it when people don't know how to write code. It's so annoying when you write code that doesn't compile. AS IF I WANNA WRITE BAD CODE?!?!?!'

But I had a wonderful TA who helped me out a lot. Her name was Gayathri and she was the best.

I hate howard

Lectures are boring. If you miss out something he mentioned in lecture, he will suspect you never go to lecture. All lecture notes will be posted. Sometimes notes are not very clear. Projects are easy but the specs are unclear.

Very very boring lectures his voice is soothing puts you to sleep but I liked how he had powerpoint slides unlike Smallberg. Specs were super unclear though this man can't write proper english so expect to ask him a lot of questions about what he actually wants. Midterms and finals were pretty straightforward final was actually mostly mc conceptual stuff less code tracing than most people expected so don't spend too much time prepping for it if your project and midterm scores are high.

Maybe the most boring prof you can ever have in your life. He talks very softly. So if you have an early morning lecture you will find yourselves hard to stay awake. He never goes back to answer any questions but tells you to reach out to him during office hours. If you ask him questions in office hour, be ready to feel like you are the stupidest person in the planet. The test, however, is not so hard; pretty much all you need to do is review the code and remember your project...

For more on this class: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z6iVXce_XG2Ilwbmuq3I9BfcOjlnu9w1zjc5584xP3Y/edit