For a supposedly simple class the professor made it very difficult. Lectures were not clear and have the class didn’t show up. He gave one more homework than on the syllabus plus the project was only a week long instead of the planned 3 weeks so instead of studying for finals everyone was trying to write the long lines of code needed for the vague project spec. Only good thing, nice grading.

So this class was a ride. Professor never prepared notes beforehand which he did because he thought would help us understand his intuition behind how to solve a problem. In reality, he succeeded in deriving things, made mistakes, and proceeded to give us homework that would be on concepts that weren't covered in class because he didn't know what information he needed to cover in each lecture. Also, the course requires a Matlab project, which should have been assigned week 7 and due week 10. Instead, he assigned it week 9 and made it due finals week and two-thirds of the project was on concepts that were not covered at all or barely touched on. Then when we asked questions, he said that many of our questions were on fundamental stuff, and he seemed to not understand that the reason for those questions was because he never taught us the fundamentals to begin with. Also, in a probability and STATISTICS course, he only taught us one kind of distribution (Gaussian) and said we'd learn the rest in a stats course? I mean, I thought this was the probability and stats course, but now I'm not too sure. Anyways, I'm glad I'm done.

I like that this class feels easy. But paying $100 per hour to have this guy recount basic multiplication is a waste of my money.

Very good professor, but any class sucks when it's 8am. People told me he's really easy, but I found his tests to be decently challenging (average around 60s). He goes incredibly slow before the midterm, and the material can easily lose you after. Watch out for the second half.

Wow, what a trip with Roychowdhury. He is an interesting professor that loves to go off into random tangents about other things in the world. Even with that though, I felt that it was pretty difficult to pay attention to him during the 8am lecture. He gets pretty lazy and we skipped a few sections that we're supposed to learn, so I hope that doesn't haunt me later on. It also took him until week 10 to post our midterm grades, which was during week 6. Ridiculous. I haven't gotten the grade in the class so I don't know how forgiving his curve is, but considering most of the class did pretty bad on the HW and fairly well on the midterm, I can only guess that it will be sort of forgiving (he just doesn't seem to care that much).