I took this course in the summer after graduating high school with barely any coding experience. As an absolute beginner who did the tiniest bit of java, this course was very introductory and not too difficult if you take the time to understand the concepts. I think Howard does a good job of explaining everything in his lectures but the slides and class notes are a bit hard to read. Other than that, if you put in the effort, you will do well. The midterms and exam cover everything you learned and never go too far beyond what was covered in class.

I went into this class with no coding experience at all, and Stahl taught pretty well, but I definitely learned more by just doing the projects. The online midterm was super easy, and the final was also relatively easy but definitely required you to actually understand the coding part (moreso than the midterm). Projects 3 and 7 had me wanting to die for a little bit but I finished them (mostly) by myself.
I did not go to a single lecture in person and I'm glad because he talks sooooo slow and I understood him better at 2x.
Overall I thought Stahl was really nice and good at answering project-related questions. Would recommend!!!!!

Pretty much the easiest class I've ever taken.

Overall, I did not find this class too difficult. You do have to put a lot of time into the projects, but you will walk out with a great understanding of C++. Only reason I got an A- was because I did not study for the midterm.
Project grades are based on wether or not you pass all test cases, and Stahl supplies you most of them before you turn it in. Getting 100% on all the projects is very doable. Although, you do have to study for the exams quite a bit, as there's a multiple choice section that requires a lot of practice to remember without a compiler.
If you put in some effort, you will succeed!

Stahl did his job, nothing more, nothing less. I started the class with 6 weeks of zoom lectures, and 4 final weeks back in-person, and frankly, in person was the most boring thing I've ever attended. It was disengaging, slow, and gloom. I will say that I did learn what was needed for CS31, and it is not hard to do well in this class, but it was a slow and tough process to adhere to.

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,

Stahl was a great guy and very nice, but his lectures worked the same as melatonin gummies. They literally made me fall asleep every time. I don't think I attended more than three lectures in the entire quarter and learned almost entirely from the discussion. However, his tests were pretty fairly made and reflected what we were learning from the projects. The projects were also manageable and he often extended the deadline. He even ended up changing one of my project grades from a literal F- to a C after I spoke with him and clarified some things. Overall, he's a very sweet man, but it was just a really boring class overall and I feel like I learned more from outside the class.

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