Lectures are just going through a juptyr lab notebook with the relevant code and some commentary. Explanations are not always clear, but professor is still really chill. The other reviewer is overly harsh, it's really not that bad. Go to lecture (not recorded but code is posted), review the material on your own as well, finish discussion worksheets. Homeworks have you solve interesting problems. Same with the group project. Exams are not bad, just make sure you know all the python tricks. We didn't have to write any code on the exam, just write the output/multiple choice. You will learn some machine learning, which is the most interesting part of the class.

Professor Zhang is extremely unclear in her homework directions, her lectures, and her speaking. I had her as a teacher for PIC 10A last winter and this class was significantly worse. She only uses Jupyter Lab files for all of her lectures instead of PDFs which often times made it harder to follow along with, especially when she would get the code wrong and not be able to explain why or correct it. She hardly explains anything in the lessons and responds in a very unhelpful, non-constructive way when someone asks her a question or gives an incorrect answer. Discussions are somewhat helpful, but everything else about this class is unclear and makes no sense, ESPECIALLY the unnecessarily complicated group project that's only worth 10% of the final grade. You're better off skipping the lectures because you're going to have to teach yourself all the material anyway. Awful teacher for an introductory computing class (both PIC 16A and PIC 10A), so if this is your first time coding, please find another professor.