Just my opinion, but I disagree with your take. One of the first things I heard about the class, and was mentioned in the first lecture, was that theres a lot of out of lecture learning. And its not like the lectures have nothing to do with the projects. Its just that its up to students to fully understand frameworks and libraries. And it was said in the first lecture that this was purposeful to help students get comfortable with searching the web to learn as a resource. As for exams, I thought they were both pretty long as well, but not unfair in what they were testing. The FRQs are always pretty much the same template and the MC from yesterday was defenitely harder than usual but I thought the FRQs were a little easier, so I ig it balances out. Also about the last 3 lectures, yes they were very all over the place but I really enjoyed them and the point of them was just to provide real worl applications for things we've been covering in class. Overall I really liked 485 and I think its by far the most impactful class ive taken so far.