This course is quite a sneaky class. The workload is either 0 hours or 10 hours, no in-between. There are 3 large homework sets each worth 15% of your final grade. Exams worth 15% each and they are all considered "midterms." The project would be 5% and there is an essentially free 5% for showing up in class. The biggest frustration is having to be able to properly understand excel despite Louis rarely actually using it in lectures. He writes stuff on white boards and chalk boards and expects you to translate it into excel. The best recommendation I can provide to a student is to really know your homework. If you know the homeworks incredibly well, the exams will be a walk in the park. The final project is easy and a joke so don't stress about that. Overall it was a fairly beneficial class to the systems major and wasn't a giant headache. Go to class, do your homework, work with peers to understand excel better if you don't have a great base and you'll be fine.

The class is just so boring and does not cover much material. Each week covers about 1 hour of reading in the textbook. Not enjoyable at all.

He is just so dry.. He reads off slides and barely explains the concepts. Professor Riggs is teaching it with him this semester and he is definitely just more engaged and thorough with the lectures than Prof Louis.

This definitely isn't a hard class. By that I mean I pretty much taught myself everything in a day or two with the textbook and stopped going about halfway through the semester. Professor Louis is a really nice guy, and definitely means well, but he's not particularly tech savvy and is super quiet, so everything feels really slow and like he's trying to put you to sleep. The concepts seem decently useful but the class overall wasn't worth going to. Not hard to do well, but I have to say I was little frustrated by the design of some of the homework assignments. No closed notes exams and no cumulative final, no major projects, easy A.