Campesato is very knowledgeable in his field and his lectures reflect that. However, they weren't very helpful in understanding the material. Reading the Jupyter notebooks on my own time was more intuitive. Ultimately, the course itself is extremely easy but poorly structured. If you want to actually learn it will take more effort on your part.

Easy class overall 25% final. 70% hw, 5% discussion attendance. Homeworks take an average of 10 min to complete and the final is an easy mcq test. Only complaint is that grades aren't inputted until the very last minute and he forgets to input hw grades for some people which shows as a 0 and drops overall grade.

Easy class lots of time for homework assignements.

took cse 20 async. grade was made of section attendance, zybooks (very easy), and final because the midterm got cancelled. you do not need to attend lecture to do well in this class. he has a github of notebooks detailing concepts and the practice exams are very similar to the final! very caring, understanding, but definatly disorganized.

He is nice, and when explaining a specific concept and answering questions he does VERY well, however, his lectures tend to be confusing and all over the place. When taking this class, I rarely went to the lectures(don't sue me) but did elect to join at the end of the zoom calls for things I had questions on, where he was very helpful.

His lectures are longwinded and confusing, so I recommend watching the videos linked on each notebook instead when possible. Still, he was good about answering questions. I recommend starting the HWs right away as some, like HW 2, can take much longer than expected. Overall most of your grade comes from the HW, so put in effort and you'll get an A.

Lectures are very boring and often times ineffective for learning the material. Showed up for the first 3 weeks and then stopped. I recommend watching the lectures videos that are in the CSE 30 notebook that he provides as I found them to be more effective in learning the material. Start the homeworks early.

The content of this class is very simple and kinda boring. Professor Campesato teaches everything that you need to get an A in this class, which isn't that much. He tends to ramble during lectures but I don't blame him because of how boring the class is. The class is an easy A but you probably won't learn much.

Class was hella easy but if you aren't good at Python beforehand, the class can be hard. Lectures weren't worth attending, and you likely could learn all the materials through the google colabs themselves. No midterm and final was really easy, but I walked away feeling like I didn't learn anything.

Taking CSE 30, you're picking between two professors: Munishkina and Campesato. The class is not bad, but you end up not going to the lectures after a couple weeks because of how boring it is. 70% of the grade is homework and there's no midterm. The final is also multiple choice. Compared to Munishkina you're better off taking it with Campesato

I went to class for the first week and never came again; his voice being hard to understand, combined with it being an online class, does not make for a very engaging experience. You can learn enough from discussion sections and the assignments that it isn't really necessary to go to class. Between him and Munishkina, take him 100% of the time.

Super easy, you honestly don't need to attend the lectures, like ever. Everything you need is probably online or could be answered by a TA. Good class though, just don't procrastinate. A good amount of homework, but none of it is too hard. Final is super easy

Professor is good, but lectures were often confusing and felt a bit stretched out. Some of the assignments were quite difficult. TA sections helped a bit with explaining and helping with the assignments, but they were still rather hard.

Not a bad professor at all, just skippable lectures unless you really want to pay attention. Lectures can feel slow and most of the learning is done by yourself. Copy-paste midterm, and completely doable to get an A as long as you put in the effort/go to discussions.

Class super easy and light and homework not that bad. No mid term but final is worth 25 percent of the grade. Hes so boring tho.

80% - homework 20% - unproctored canvas final multiple choice He can't teach (horrible lectures) but it's really easy to get A in his class (ChatGPT cooked)

Lectures are alright, not mandatory. Discussions are mandatory and help a lot. Midterm and final make most of your grade, the practice tests will prepare you well. The prof is easy to communicate with outside of class and is super nice. Really easy class and prof, recommend.

I didn't go to lecture and got an A. His class was very disorganized and it was hard to know what was due when, but he's a nice and caring guy. Weirdly, though, his exams were much harder than any of the homework/readings given in ZyBooks. His lecturing was pretty boring and his voiced just droned on and on--again, pretty unorganized.

Professor Campesato was alright, pretty easy class to pass if you have some knowledge of Python. There isn't a paper textbook, but you have to buy ZyBooks ($40 I believe) in order to do homework and various readings on there. Lectures were honestly pretty boring, ZyBooks had enough material explaining the concepts of the course pretty well.

he seems like a chill guy but does not know how to teach at all. learned more from the sections than from the classes.10 Homework assignments graded by an online tool that will make you question which century you're in and why a CSE class is using a relic to grade stuff.nothing in this class that google cant teach you

I came into this class with literally zero python knowledge, and this class was a breeze. The lectures are a bit hard to follow, but honestly like 10 minutes of googling things will put you ahead of the class. Just do the zybooks and you'll ace the tests. The only downside I can think of is that we should not have to pay ~$35 for zybooks.

Believe the others, boring as hell (especially if you take him at night), doesn't sound like he knows what he's talking about and makes it hard to focus on material. Goes over Github code but very slowly and skips stuff, rambles, makes no effort to engage or make it interesting. Assignments take some time, but not hard. No midterm. Get a good TA!

This prof sucks, but at least the class is pretty easy. Stopped attending lecture week 2, and still got an A with minimal studying through just the homework.