Laura Biester

This course was not too difficult if you already have computing experience. I had done AP CS in high school and for the first bit of the course it was review, until eventually we got into some new data structures. Overall it wasn't too hard to do any of the homeworks, I only spent at most two hours on a weekly assignment

Prof. Biester is super knowledgeable in the space but does not make the material super intimidating. Coding is strictly done in Python and it is not super difficult. A lot of the work comes with testing your model. The course leads up to a paper where you apply various LLMs learned throughout the course in a unique way. Grading is done by points, similar to Chodrow's CSCI 200 course. So you basically just have to meet or surpass the specified number of points for each grade.

Prof. Biester is super knowledgeable in the space but does not make the material super intimidating. Coding is strictly done in Python and it is not super difficult. A lot of the work comes with testing your model. The course leads up to a paper where you apply various LLMs learned throughout the course in a unique way. Grading is d …Read more

I had Prof. Briggs, who isn’t listed here, but overall the class was okay. The material itself wasn’t too difficult, and Prof. Briggs is really nice, though her teaching style didn’t always work for me and I sometimes struggled to keep up in class. The weekly quizzes and midterms were pretty chill, but there’s one big homework assignment each week that can be time-consuming.