EECS 475

475

FA15, Prof. Compton

I really enjoyed the subject matter of this course; I find cryptography to be a very interesting subject. I feel like Compton does a great job in hitting as many important parts of cryptography as he can in one semester and he is a fantastic lecturer. The book was very helpful in this course and Compton does a good job of using this to your advantage (as opposed to classes that make you buy the book and you never even open it). This class had a new homework assignment just about every week and they were quite time consuming, but I'm sure it was to make up for the fact that this class only had one project. Most of the homework problems were proof-related which I find dry and boring, but it's not a big surprise that you'll run into proofs when taking a class so closed tied to math. I felt this class had a moderate/heavy workload with eight lengthy homework assignments, one project, and two exams. When studying for the exams, I highly suggest spending most of your time reviewing the practice exam Compton gives you (I can't stress this enough); I spent most of my time reviewing the homework assignments and I felt like it didn't really help me much.