If you have not had programming experience then this is the class for you. Dr. Cohoon takes the newbie and transforms them into programing machines. It's almost amazing.

i took this instead of cs101 my first year because i didnt have any cs in high school. it was helpful to have a computer there to look at the programs during the lectures, but other than that, the class wasn't that great. cohoon knows what he's talking about (he wrote the book), but he's so disorganized that it makes the class a lot more difficult. instead of teaching well, we were expected to read the book and teach ourselves. TA was helpful for homeworks, but cohoon himself made the class a lot harder than it needed to be