I think I would recommend this class because it was pretty manageable, except for the second project, which I would compare to a rough cs111 project. For the online format, he has 4 take home 2 hour timed quizzes instead of midterm+final. There are weekly homeworks, which don't take very long, and 2 projects. The first one is fine but the second one was really rough so start early. The projects are graded based off demos so you don't really have to worry about edge cases, which is nice and straightforward.

I'll recommend Professor Lu for CS118. He and his TAs are super nice and helpful. The past quarter has been a difficult time and he tried his best to listen to the needs of the students. (He let us poll on things like quiz length, optional final, curve of quiz scores, extra credit of project 2, etc) His lectures are not the most inspiring ones, but he did explain things clearly and cover all the necessary details. The projects are managable. Project 1 is easy, project 2 is much harder but he gave us almost 5 weeks for that. Overall, I recommend taking Lu's CS118.

The course itself is not easy for me, but professor Lu gives some examples and tries to explain everything clear and vivid. Course materials are very clear, professor Lu and TAs are super nice and helpful, professor even provides extra office hours before the quizzes.
Overall, I learned a lot from this course and I think it is a good course. I think the only problem is 8 am is too early for me lol.

His lectures are not the most inspiring as its it's just reading from slides and at 8 AM but he's a really smart guy and fairly nice. There are 2 projects in the class, project 1 is decently easy. Project 2 is a lot more in depth but he gives you almost 5 weeks to do it, so it's extremely doable within that time frame. The tests are not too hard and he curves pretty decently in the end. Take him if you have the chance