Least enjoyable and worst taught subject at Monash that I have experienced. All the lectures are pre-recorded. Umm, ok. The explanations contained in these (well under an hour per week) videos are often vague and confusing. By the final weeks it got to the point that the videos would just cut out part way through and not even finish. As the course progresses you move into more and more complex topics (pointers, classes and polymorphism, factories) but level of detail in the lecture content doesn't commensurately increase. These are not easy concepts to grasp. But that's ok, you have the labs. Lab sheets are confusing, poorly laid out, and at times frankly indecipherable. So many students were so frustrated by the experience that they seemed to just give up as the weeks progressed. But that's ok, you have consultations. Sometimes the tutors turned up to consultations, often not. They were very difficult to understand with thick foreign accents and not what I would consider an engaging temperament (at times they seemed to be quite annoyed to be asked questions). Their knowledge is somewhere between poor to whatever is slightly above poor. But that's ok, you have the Ed forums. Whilst many other subjects have vibrant and helpful forums, 1048 does not. Just let this sink in: in the week before the exam there was not a single response from the subject staff. "Please clarify this question.."; "Is this how we should answer a question"; "Here is some code, can I have feedback..". Nothing, not a single post. People pay thousand of dollars to do these subjects and a Facebook post would likely get more feedback. How can a university seriously stand behind a subject like this? Assessment tasks are vague and in parts self contradictory. The instructions rambled on and on; didn't even have a consistent marking guide; and contained a bizarre mix of vague and then extremely specific instructions. You then get feedback along the lines that your header declarations were wrong and main function had too much content. Marks off for you, the terrible coder who uses modern programming practice! It's a disgrace, a rort, an exercise in unbridled frustration, and an embarrassment to Australia's education system.