Some advice to future students of this course:
  -Codelab: Do as much as possible. Personally I finished the entire 12 weeks of Codelab within first 2 weeks of class. This allotted me a solid base understanding of Java that was invaluable for the remainder of the semester.
  -Programs: He gives MORE than enough time to complete them. Start them AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. If you get done early, it just means you can slack off for awhile, but if you catch a big problem in your program, you will still have time to correct it.
  -Labs: Although you can work together on latter labs, I would suggest doing as much as you can by yourself, even though you only turn in one copy. The labs are highly symmetric with the test labs, so if you have inadequacies anywhere in your coding you will be in trouble.
  -Tests: For ****'s sake you can bring in NOTES and the BOOK. SO DO SO! Print off previous semester's tests. Make sure you know the questions of each printed out test very well, however, because slight nuances in question phrasing will trip you up from test-to-test. And for the labs, not only are they simple, but most of the time he has went over the exact style of code in class previous to the test, so you can go DOWNLOAD his previous code and simply edit it to suit your current problem.
  -Lab quizzes: Personally, these were the only downfall of this course. Questions with errors, uneven difficulty from student to student, etc. They just detracted from the lab experience. I would have rather that first 10 minutes of lab had been given so that we could have had a firmer grasp on the short programs we had to write.
  -Class curve: It's huge, yet people always fail.

Sorry about double post, haha.