Hard, but the most useful class I've taken so far

Workload: about 12 to 15 hours a week, more during the tree unit. What went well: the course builds steadily. Once linked lists and recursion made sense, trees felt like a natural next step, and graphs built on both. What was hard: the coding assignments have a lot of edge cases, and it's easy to underestimate them. I lost more points to missed edge cases than to wrong ideas. Would I take it again? Yes. I use what I learned here in every CS class since. Start early, test your own code, and it's very doable.