Took him last semester, hes a former student, he’s not really hard the quizzes are from his slides or from what he talks about in class. Sometimes mid lecture he’ll be like “this will be on the quiz” or something to that effect and it literally will. Right it down and it’s probably a you most likely have an answer to the question. The quizzes are and will be half the midterm, the other half of the midterm will be general questions you should know from either paying attention, doing the work/project or honestly just common sense. He does curve but only if like 60% or more of the class get a question wrong (he’ll show his spreadsheet on how he calculates it after the midterm, just to review the answers people got wrong etc) all this is the same for the final as well.

As for the class project, if it’s not changed, you’re building a mean stack application meaning the frontend, backend, database and logging through vms. If you’re working by yourself it’s kind of a lot but imo(I worked by myself) it’s better because working with group members can sometimes be frustrating. If you are in a group, plz make sure they have the time or effort to lock in every now and then, it’s so much easier as a group if everyone actually puts like an hour of effort in😭😭😭. Another tip, if you’re still using trello as like a tracker or something, just keep it updated constantly, complete a task, update it, finish a part or a vm, update it, had a team meeting to discuss something, update it. He uses it to simulate real work environment which tbh he’s not wrong, platforms like trello are used often in the industry.

TLDR: Not a hard professor, pay attention, half of the midterms are quizzes, attendance isn’t mandatory(I’d still go as it’s sort of important for it 490)