Even Group acknowledged that his lectures were dry and the C programming language is dead during this course. If you are an experienced programmer you should find this course to be challenging but manageable, but if you are not you will find it downright impossible. The class starts out pretty easy, but after the first few weeks it gets hard fast. I would stay up all night working on the homework assignments with a group of people from my class and attend all of the TA office hours and still not finish them. Group tells you that the final project should take you no more than 4-10 hours but it took me 24 and I got a 60 percent. I do not know anyone who spent less than 20 hours on it or who got above a 75. However, the class is curved a little bit at the end and if you work hard and attend the TA office hours you will pass. If you have the choice between this class and CS 1110 take 1110. It is much more enjoyable, useful, and manageable.

Group was a pretty good professor. He was pretty helpful and so were the TA's. If you have no experience coding this course will likely be tough for the first few weeks but once you get the hang of C the homeworks are not bad at all and you can work with other people on them. There were no exams just a final project which was pretty nice and doable. I'd highly suggest taking this course with Professor Group.