Context: OMSA student, taking as elective for fun and easy workload.

Fun course, easy workload. Only spent about 5 weeks actively engaged with the course. Two of those were right at the start with Assignment #1 which requires research, infrastructure building and planning.

The lectures are 100% optional. Download the transcripts and word-search them for everything you need.

If you want to do well on the assignments, completely overshoot the amount of work they tell you that you have to do. WORKING TO SPEC WILL LOSE YOU POINTS. This is my biggest complaint with the course. The peer work held up in class as extraordinary/exemplary frequently overshot the very-clearly-defined scope boundaries (for Assignment #2) and/or content length limitations (for Assignment #3). And then if you didn't meet this artificial above-and-beyond standard, you were penalized.

This class is engineered so that most people will get a B. If you want to take it as an easy course, go in expecting a B, and then "B" okay with that.