Who are good professors you all had this semester?

Cons:

So one con is that he takes a long time to grade assignments. This is likely due to a a lack of TA.

Another is that he is fairly soft spoken with a fairly heavy Spanish accent. Its not really a Con, but it is something to keep in mind if you have hearing issues, or trouble understanding accents.

For pros:

In data structures, he offers a great deal of information as far as different cases and when to use something vs when to use another thing. He provides a great deal of functional examples as well and you’ll end up with a very solid code base in Java.

Another pro is that his grading criteria is extremely straightforward and most assignments are fairly easy as they are based on in class examples that he discusses. His tests are a bit tricky for me but im just shit at programming exams tbh. Most are just questions pertaining to time complexity of algorithms, as well as identifying data structures/algorithms from psudo code.

He also provides most of the framework for the assignments and all you have to do is implement the program based on what he is asking for. For example he may ask you to implement a program that stores data from a file to a doubly linked list. He will provide the files for you to edit and all that is necessary is to fill out the methods for the Linked List class and Node class as per the specification. However if you stray from the spec he will deduct points (idk why you would though. Thats just making things harder lmao)

Conclusion: Honestly the only major gripe is that he takes a whole to grade assignments. Honestly though you won’t go wrong with him, and I genuinely I could take him again for future classes. Definitely one of the better profs for Comp Sci at FIU imo, only one I’ve had that is “better” is Kianoush but just because he curves his grades like a mad lad.

Honestly, I’ve had far worse professors. I mean I’ve definitely had better but honestly she’s a safe pick. Compared to a lot of the computer science professors its night and day lmao.

Example: a comp sci professor (wont name them) created a midterm that the average grade was a 32… half the class dropped. He then failed to teach the subject matter for the next assignment and proceeded to write up half of the remaining students for cheating when they decided to look online for help on how to structure the program.

Did you have her for physics? I am thinking of taking her...

Yes , she do in the class , I just finish this week .

It’s adequate for a programming class. All good programming classes have a lot of work so I would say yes she assigns a lot of work.