This is a classic Thacker course. He is not the best professor, but he is not the worst either. If you are taking this class its cause you have to, not cause you want to.

Class is boring; Thacker's lecturing style tends to put you to sleep. Most of the HW were notterribly hard, but very time consuming. The tests are ridiculous in that at least 10% of his answers are wrong, and the class has to correct him after the fact. On the plus side Thacker is a nice guy.

Meh, he's a bore, but the stuff he teaches is good to at least expose yourself to just once. Most of the material is covered in software you'll learn to use once you get a job, but I guess if you want an advantage you can learn this stuff well enough to know how software does what it does... Just get through it and you'll learn something at least.