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

CS31 (especially in winter, as all the real CS majors don’t take it at this time usually) is easy enough to self-study, which is great if you’re good at that, as it’ll be exactly what you’re doing. I think between projects and googling stuff you don’t get it’s about 4~6 hours of studying per week, which isn’t bad at all imo. Most of the people in my discussion seemed to need to be hand-held, so I ended up doing really well because I’m used to having useless professors and learning by myself. If that sounds like you, CS31 will be okay.

Stahl makes bad specs and teaches the stuff you need after the assignments are due (and badly) but you still HAVE to go to lecture because he gives away some code and explains his specs until it goes from being absolutely incomprehensible to readable enough. UPE has good review sessions so go to those.

If you’re not down to self-learn, this professor probably isn’t for you.