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

Open-book midterm and final so textbook necessary. Selling textbook for Eggert 131: Modern Programming Languages for 40 dollars (original price 80+) text **********

This is the worst class I have had on this campus. One of the TAs graded midterms papers with objectively wrong interpretations of multiple questions and stubbornly stuck to those wrong interpretations, never admitting fault. The professor promised intervention, but it was either unsuccessful or was dismissed. The other TAs tried to be supportive, but they were simply overworked and could not give enough support in the end. The content is not useful in the real world; this class is purely here to shoot down some students, and waste the time of the rest. Please tell your younger friends and relatives to not come to this school for computer science.

class too hard people too smart. that being said i'd still recommend all cs students take at least 1 eggert class for the experience. generous grading on final project and exams were generously curved to 50% average

I learned a lot in this class and I believe is very good for the overall structure of the computer science degree.

Lectures are interesting but all over the place. I would recommend watching the recording to make sure you don't miss ANYTHING. If Eggert spends more than two sentences talking about a topic, it is fair game to assume it's on the exam.

Assignments are a pain, so start them early. And take notes on them. I think Eggert aims for about 40% average on his exams, so expect to do bad. Bare minimum you need to understand every thing he said in class, and that should get you a median grade. If you want to do better, try printing out hundreds of pages of command manuals, guides, and tutorials to make sure you are proficient in JS, Python, shell scripting, and C. Aim for partial credit.

Class participation is 10x endorsed answers on Piazza for 0.1% each. I'm not sure why this is a thing because that means TAs have to endorse 2400 answers for everyone to get full credit.

Make sure you have at least one or two people you know will pull their weight in your project group. It's 35% of your grade, and I had a groupmate that authored one commit. I don't think the TAs give af.

TLDR: Pretend this class is 15 units.