As a person, I really want to like Putterman. But unfortunately I cannot because this class destroyed my happiness. It was obnoxiously hard and I was miserable every moment I spent thinking about it. Maybe I learned enough to help in the long run but honestly I barely understood anything. The material we learned was drastically different from what I've heard others learned with a different professor. If you're someone that actually understood what was happening then yeah this class was probably really helpful. Unfortunately that's not me. The lectures were often impossible to follow and everything was way too fast. I ended up having to teach myself most of the course from the textbook (which was not very good) and the TA's office hours (which were amazing).