Fair workload if you start assignments early

I took this alongside two other technical classes and it was manageable, but only because I started every assignment the day it came out. The difficulty comes in waves. The first few weeks feel fine, the tree and heap weeks are the steepest, and hashing and sorting felt lighter. Graphs picked the intensity back up at the end. If you like understanding why things work, you'll enjoy it. If you try to memorize complexities without the reasoning, it gets painful fast.