Course reviews
People who finished the term write here. Ten reviews on this page, twenty-word teasers.
4.4
The homework actually uses real tables
Six weekly sets, each built on a public transit dump. You write joins that fail on dirty keys, then you fix the keys. Office hours on Thursday.
3.1
Studio lights died in week four
The room is a basement with one working lamp. Models were late twice. Critique is kind but the still-life shelf is plastic fruit.
4.8
We keyed plants in the rain and I kept the notebook
Saturday walks, paper keys, no slides. You learn ten families by touch. The exam is a bag of twigs. I still use the key.
4.0
Cases are current, the forum is a mess
Readings arrive as PDFs the night before. The lecturer answers mail. Group work is optional. I passed the mock with the sample clause set.
2.6
Five weeks of slides, one real brief
The brief showed up in week five. Until then we copied wireframes from a 2019 deck. Feedback was a thumbs-up emoji.
4.6
Sight-singing drills that finally stuck
Twenty minutes of intervals, then a motet. No concert at the end, which I liked. The room has a real piano. Attendance is strict.
3.9
Compiler errors are the curriculum
You write a tiny allocator and a JSON parser. Tests run on a shared box. The book is free. I still dream about undefined behavior.
2.2
They ran out of knives in week two
Sixteen people, eight boards. The demo was a video on a laptop. I learned more from the stall sharpener downtown.
4.5
We walked the river with a paper map
No GIS until week six. First you pace a block and draw it. Then you compare with the city sheet. Cold mornings. Good notes.
3.4
R scripts without a data story
Labs are copy-paste. The midterm asked for a t-test on a toy CSV. Office hours clash with work. I wanted a real survey.