Bad. I don't know what I learned and I don't know what I'm looking at when he's drawing diagrams. The only good parts of lecture is when he shares his personal anecdotes or is funny. If you've already taken 111, workload-wise this class is not as bad; the projects are way shorter than 111. Taking 161 is also helpful because Lisp is similar to the languages you have to pick up in this class.

Pretty much like all the other reviews have already said.

Don't take this class, but obviously you have to take it so take it. You'll get through it fine.

All I gotta say is, it is a goddamn miracle that I passed this class.

That is all.

I'm just an average CS student but this man really had me seriously thinking of changing my major and even dropping out. Good thing I stayed thanks to my other CS professors who actually inspired me to learn.

As is well-known, this class was horrible. Labs almost every week with almost no direction and covering many disparate topics. I had Tameez Latib as my TA, and he was good, but there's only so much you can so when the content and structure of the class is so bad. It's a really great thing that this class was discontinued and replaced by CS 97.

Yes, it's hard, but Eggert is a great lecturer and the content is good. One of the best CS classes here overall

This class, even though they have made some assignments much shorter, is still a lot of work and the last assignment is worth 5% of your grade and you're only given a week to handle it ( with some research presentation and still trying to study for finals). Also, it doesn't help that his final will absolutely destroy you. Extremely difficult and just all round horrible. My best advice is to start looking on the material from now, give yourself a head start, you'll need it.

Eggert is a great professor, and is obviously very knowledgeable of everything there is to cs. Lectures were very interesting and it was cool studying different programming languages and comparing them. The homeworks were pretty hard tho and the midterm actually wasn’t so bad, but the final was terribly difficult. This class stressed out a bit too much lol.

I can now consider myself a survivor after barely passing.

most winnable eggert class imo, textbook is hugely important

131 is definitely better than 35L, but I think that's mostly just because its our second shot at an Eggert class. HW is RIDICULOUS, I mean essentially impossible to do the right way without spending 10+ hours a week. Exams weren't too crazy this quarter, but that doesn't say anything about what future exams will be like. Just like 35L, a lot of this class is very interesting and useful, and a lot of it is a complete waste of time and effort. Overall, I would recommend him for 131, and this really is just one of the classes of all time.