Reviews of professor Paul Stotts

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Stotts' lectures are really dry and pretty boring, but the concepts themselves aren't too difficult to understand if you put in the work. Definitely go to office hours  shoutout to the TAs because they were so helpful! The coding assignments take a long time, so definitely start them early. Exams are weighted heavily (35% and 38%).

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Stott's explanations of concepts were good. Though his tone was very flat, he sprinkled in some humor to make the lectures bearable. But the only assignments we had were coding, no concept review, so I was lost when it was time for the midterm. All semester, it hasn't been clear what we need to know to do well on the tests. Very frustrating.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The lectures and class were really boring but it is easy to read over the slides by yourself and learn all the content. There is very less homework and the tests are fine if you read over the slides.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Stotts was a super chill professor, who's lectures and assignments were driven from past semesters. But don't let that fool you, the resources are really good, and I enjoyed working on them. They teach you all the concepts you need from the lectures, and they're fun do to. Only downside is that lectures are a little stale, but still useful!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
PDS is a good professor. He's pretty stale and boring in lecture, but he's good at explaining the concepts and the course is well structured, based heavily on previous years. Overall solid and not that difficult if you just do the work and study with friends. Make sure to do PollEV!