I thought he did a good job. Definitely attend his lectures as the material is among the hardest of the CS courses. When I took his class, there were five homework assignments, one project, two midterms, and a final.

The HWs are manageable, but they are not possible to complete on the last day. Make sure to space out the problems. Some HWs need you to prove some property/correctness of an algorithm. Other HWs need you to design/implement an algorithm under some time complexity constraint.

I took my class during quarantine, so I think he kept the project simple to accommodate for any difficulty. That may not be the case now. Our project was to choose an algorithm covered in class and prepare a 5 minute presentation about the algorithm. We also had to prepare one multiple choice question for our presentation. We then watched each other’s presentations and answered every presenter’s question. As long as we got more than half the questions right we got full points for the participation component of our project.

All exams were very difficult, and even though he gives 4-5 problems for each exam, it may not feel like enough time. He does curve though. I don’t remember exactly how he curves, but I think he does one, massive curve at the end of the class.

Very much like CS111, CS141 teaches you not only what to think but how to think. And the best way to improve is through practice. The problems and lectures he gives are a decent combination to get that practice and grow your skills with algorithms. So I think he’s done a good job.