Yan needs to touch grass. Forbidding the use of generative AI is something no industry does. He's trying to reinvent the wheel in the dumbest way possible.

You can't avoid this professor because he is the only one teaching it. When you are given trash you are stuck with it.

The course is poorly designed. It FORCES you to self-study. This is entirely the fault of Hamzeh Roumani, who was the proponent of "learning-by-doing". The lab TAs were basically unreachable outside of the lab session, so we were basically on our own to figure out the labs. The RISC-V parts are easiest to get marks in. Verilog is veri-painful, and the pre-labs don't come with answers so you MUST figure it out, or you won't even be able to do the in-class labs.

Low-level assembly language, and hardware description language.

Nice, but not good at lecturing.

I wish I knew how much self-study was required, ESPECIALLY for the Verilog part of the course.