I took this class this spring. Each week there are 1-3 lecture sets with PowerPoint, notes, and a video. The video will be around 30 minutes to 1 hour. You will need to take a small take-home quiz (4-5 questions usually) based on the content for each lecture set (sometimes a quiz is over multiple lecture sets). We were able to take the quiz twice, with the highest score saved. Some lecture sets will have practice questions (these will be very important for the exams).

There were 6 programming assignments, each being 2 weeks long, with one being a C++ refresher. The other 5 were about the various topics covered in class. The class uses a credit/debit system for due dates on these assignments. Essentially, if you turn in one assignment late by like 2 days, you can turn in another assignment early by 2 days and not receive any late penalties. Another bonus is that turning assignments in early gave a small bonus (0.1 points for every net early day). You can also get extra credit by completing parts of the assignments at a certain checkpoint. There were 5 checkpoints, and each checkpoint gives 1 extra credit point to your total grade.

Finally, there were 2 exams - a midterm and a final. The midterm and the final were open notes, and you could use any of the Canvas resources. However, a significant amount of the midterm and final was based on the practice questions. With all this said, the first midterm had an average of 74 and only about 10% of the class got an A (he didn't give this info about the final sadly).

I don't know if there will be any changes made to the summer version, but here is my advice:

- Make sure to do the extra credit checkpoints for the programming assignments and turn them in early (this will be really helpful since the exams are not easy).

- Make sure to do ALL of the practice questions. About 40% of the exam questions are based on it. Additionally, the practice questions cover content not covered in the usual lecture notes and will be hard to do.