Lecture slides are barely enough to understand the concepts and the class rarely goes through specific code for how to solve algorithm problems. Insane course workload, weekly labs have you read 100 pages of slides on average and there will be three components to the weekly lab: a quiz, a handwritten problem, and an autograder coding problem. Project autograder never revealed where you did wrong or where you should improve. You can only trial and error until you "luckily" find the right implementation. Lectures and labs are only helpful for getting the theoretical background, but when it comes to coding, you have no clue where to start. Lack of help - long OH wait, not even during peak hours like around the exam or before a project deadline. GSIs, not helpful, they can only give you hints ...read more