I had PIC 10A with this professor. I didn't really talk to him, but he seemed nice enough and he encouraged questions during lecture, which was cool. You definitely should go to lecture in my opinion. Sometimes a couple questions (or similar ones) from lecture show up on the tests. My only problem, was that he went a quite fast and seemed like he thought we all had some background in programming even though it's an intro class(which it seems like a lot did). I did not have any prior knowledge so sometimes I found myself lost in class because he went quickly. He also covered a lot of material. His first midterm was easy and I did well, but then he moved a lot faster and made the second one a lot harder and the average went way down. His final was somewhere more in the middle. I had to study quite a bit, but I ended up with a B. It's doable, but I would suggest a slower professor if you've never done any programming to make your life a little easier.