Reviews of professor Ophir Frieder

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The professor relies on too many convoluted analogies that drag out explanations and miss the point of the lecture. Class materials are not well prepared (little effort put in to make the slides easy to follow) and presume students to have known some coding

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Databases was interesting. There's two midterms (50%), a DB application design (5%), and then a massive project (45%) where your group (2-3 people) builds an entire RDBMS, which is like 10k lines of code. Lectures go by quickly and there's no busy work. You can spread out the project over months or just cram everything into 2-3 weeks of coding.