Good teacher, some material is dry, but he usually tries to make it interesting somehow

The class is really straightforward. If you're not interested in the topic, lectures can be dull, but attendance isn't required. Everything on test comes from slides or hw. Go to recitation for homework help.

Acton is an incredibly funny guy who makes the class interesting. Anyone who has an interest in technology of any kind should take this class. It teaches a variety of technology topics from communications, to probability, to the GPS system. It's got a little bit of everything so you'll find something you're interested in.

He's an incredibly enthusiastic lecturer and plays in jokes to hold your attention. Light homework workload, interesting material, cheat sheets on tests, and reasonably easy tests. No required attendance, no quizzes outside of three pre-scheduled exams (two midterms and a final). Really recommend taking this class with Acton, he's great.

Really easy class and pretty interesting information (at least for me). The TA wasn't so good. She always left recitation early and just basically gave the answers to two students who would then teach the students who showed up for homework help. Tests are easy if you go to class and pay attention or just read the slides.

Acton is a great professor for this course. The TA (Anderson) was not very helpful. Would recommend this class for sure!

Homework was usually difficult, but recitation would help a lot as either ta's or other students would help you through most of the problems. Tests weren't that bad, but most people failed them so he would usually give a really generous curve on them.

Between Reed and Acton, Acton is the guy to take. His lectures can be pretty boring but he posts all of his notes. The homeworks are pretty difficult but the TA's help a lot. The tests are pretty easy since he reviews before each test. Not easy A but not too hard

Still not sure how I feel about this class. His lectures were long and kind of boring, but his sense of humor helped. He doesn't require anyone to go to class because "if you want to waste your money on education and not come, that's your choice." His homework takes a lot of time and frustration, so do it early enough that you have time to go to office hours for help. His tests were theoretically very easy. He lets us bring in cheat sheets and he has a review session before them where he basically spells out what to do. For some reason, I never did very well on those tests but in the end got a B. There is also a weekly problem session. You get full credit on that part of your grade if you go to all of them and get your work checked off by the TA. However, there is one TA who has to check everybody's work when they are done, and with everybody finishing about the same time, there ends up being a HUGE wait. Either go early to get a head start or be prepared to stay late.

Professor Acton is so great. He's really funny, he constantly cracks jokes, super deadpan. He's really nice, and a pretty good lecturer, though he takes some getting used to (I didn't follow him at all the first couple of days). The material is usually pretty interesting. Homeworks are terrible, though. They can be pretty hard to begin with, but the reason they were so bad my semester was that they were ahead of the lectures, so we had to do them before we learned the material. If this happens to you, find some nice TA's and go to their office hours. If they are like the TA's I had, they will get you through it. Labs weren't very hard, but I'd recommend starting early because the TA has to check everyone off one by one, and it can be a pretty long wait towards the end of class. So if you want to get out of there at a reasonable time, go early. Tests weren't that bad, just make sure to go to the lecture before the test, because he goes over a lot of examples that are very similar to questions on the test. Overall, this class was very worthwhile, and it's not too hard to get an A. Homeworks can be pretty time consuming though.