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,

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

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.

Stahl is possibly the worst instructor I've ever had. Don't take this class if you are not a CS major, as his teaching and grading method is geared toward students who already know the material. His lectures are terrible, he codes in Microsoft OneNote during class and his code is broken and full of spelling errors (because he doesn't use an IDE). His notes are fragmented and incomprehensible, and his tests are ridiculous. The final was 25 pages. His projects take HOURS to complete, and if you don't score well enough on the exams, your project grade is reduced. He is impatient and brushes you off during OH. Honestly, this was my only B- and it was warmly welcomed just to get me out of this class.