zeitgeist
All American
5216 Posts
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| course : | CSC 246 |
| course rating : | 3 - Good |
| course comments : | i enjoyed the material.. the info at the end of the book (which of course you don't do in class LOL ) was interesting |
| class : | Fall 2001 section 002 |
| grade received : | A |
| class rating : | 3 - Good |
| class comments : | |
| instructor : | Nelson |
| instructor rating : | 3 - Good |
| instructor comments : | boring, but fair |
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stardust
Veteran
265 Posts
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| course : | CSC 246 |
| course rating : | 3 - Good |
| course comments : | I thought the material was ok.. it was pretty easy so I can't complain too much |
| class : | Fall 2001 section 002 |
| grade received : | N/A |
| class rating : | 3 - Good |
| class comments : | The class was pretty easy |
| instructor : | Nelson |
| instructor rating : | 3 - Good |
| instructor comments : | I thought Nelson was a really good teacher. Sometimes he repeated parts of previous lectures and sometimes he was boring, but he was pretty good overall. |
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Chillin056
All American
6616 Posts
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| course : | CSC 246 |
| course rating : | 2 - Average |
| course comments : | good intro to basic operating system. Tedious. |
| class : | Spring 2002 section 002 |
| grade received : | A- |
| class rating : | 2 - Average |
| class comments : | nelson gives out a course pack that is goes very well with course. Quizzes every week this includes vocab and one program. Very straightforward but tedious for the grade i got |
| instructor : | Nelson |
| instructor rating : | 2 - Average |
| instructor comments : | i thought he wasn't bad. he went over things over and over until the class understood it. Helpful inside/outside of class. |
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Listener
Veteran
295 Posts
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| course : | CSC 246 |
| course rating : | 2 - Average |
| course comments : | interesting and boring at the same time |
| class : | Spring 2002 section 002 |
| grade received : | B |
| class rating : | 2 - Average |
| class comments : | Didn't really care for the class. I got bored a lot. It was just a bunch of algorithms and figuring out how they worked but it was so easy that I didn't really try at all. Burnt out |
| instructor : | Nelson |
| instructor rating : | 3 - Good |
| instructor comments : | Nice guy. Curved a lot I think. Gave a ton of extra credit. I didn't study at all because of my bloody CSC316 programs. Very easy class. Could have made an A if I could have cared. |
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lmshupp
Starting Lineup
64 Posts
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| course : | CSC 246 |
| course rating : | 2 - Average |
| course comments : | The material was good to learn. I'm glad I know what I know from it. The book was horrible, though. Very boring reading. |
| class : | Spring 2002 section 002 |
| grade received : | A |
| class rating : | 1 - Bad |
| class comments : | The instructor understood the material, but does not teach well at all. At times I think we knew more than him. |
| instructor : | Nelson |
| instructor rating : | 0 - Horrible |
| instructor comments : | Nelson is not at all a good with people. He does not display things well on the bored. He babbles. He is ALWAYS making mistakes. Not ONCE did I NOT have to get things REgraded because he screwed up. He's very out of it, has too much on his plate, poorly organized, etc. Too much trouble to deal with. |
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richthofen
All American
14628 Posts
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| course : | CSC 246 |
| course rating : | 2 - Average |
| course comments : | Basic, low-level concepts of operating systems. Challenging for non-majors like myself... |
| class : | Spring 2001 section 001 |
| grade received : | C+ |
| class rating : | 2 - Average |
| class comments : | Difficult at times, but not terrible. The homework was generally easy though sometimes lengthy/tedious. The final was a killer though. |
| instructor : | Nelson |
| instructor rating : | 1 - Bad |
| instructor comments : | Bad professor...boring, not good at getting his concepts across, micromanaged, not particularly helpful, and just generally annoying. Avoid him if at all possible! |
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HackerGirl
All American
1487 Posts
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| course : | CSC 246 |
| course rating : | 3 - Good |
| course comments : | Material fairly interesting. Easy to understand. Required for my major. |
| class : | Fall 2000 section 003 |
| grade received : | N/A |
| class rating : | 3 - Good |
| class comments : | Class was pretty easy. I don't remember using the book a lot, aside from learning definitions for the tests. |
| instructor : | Nelson |
| instructor rating : | 3 - Good |
| instructor comments : | Sometimes gave conflicting information, but overall a good prof. Goofy kinda guy :) I recommend Nelson for OS over other profs I've heard about. |
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pTymN
All American
1611 Posts
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| course : | CSC 246 |
| course rating : | 4 - Awesome |
| course comments : | Great to learn this stuff! Every computer scientist should know this material. |
| class : | Fall 2002 section 001 |
| grade received : | B |
| class rating : | 2 - Average |
| class comments : | Classroom was very large, hard to see board from the back. Material was presented fairly well though. |
| instructor : | Williams |
| instructor rating : | 3 - Good |
| instructor comments : | Spoke less than perfect english, didnt answer questions very well she got confused about what people were asking. Projects were a breeze, quizzes annoying. |
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DonMega
All American
3009 Posts
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| course : | CSC 246 |
| course rating : | 2 - Average |
| course comments : | Good for basic understanding about memory management and command priorities. Material was not too difficult. |
| class : | Fall 2002 section 002 |
| grade received : | A |
| class rating : | 2 - Average |
| class comments : | not too exciting, not too boring. Nelson was a bit annoying to listen to though. |
| instructor : | Nelson |
| instructor rating : | 2 - Average |
| instructor comments : | Not a bad guy, although sometimes he deserved a kick to the testicles. |
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FrAnime
Veteran
143 Posts
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| course : | CSC 246 |
| course rating : | 2 - Average |
| course comments : | It was alright. ... |
| class : | Spring 2003 section 001 |
| grade received : | B+ |
| class rating : | 3 - Good |
| class comments : | nice guy....he'll quiz ya to death tho. Also only 2 test (includes the final). Programs are easy. |
| instructor : | Nelson |
| instructor rating : | 3 - Good |
| instructor comments : | good |
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CapnObvious
All American
4667 Posts
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| course : | CSC 246 |
| course rating : | 2 - Average |
| course comments : | Boring. Pretty easy and straightforward though. |
| class : | Spring 2003 section 003 |
| grade received : | A |
| class rating : | 2 - Average |
| class comments : | No attendance, but she requires the newer book, which was only different from the old one by the cover. Boring. |
| instructor : | Williams |
| instructor rating : | 1 - Bad |
| instructor comments : | Boring, boring, boring. When she did teach programming (isn't that what we are there for?), it is in some archaic assembly language that no one but her was alive for. Programs are done in java (wtf, a java OS?). She was easy though. |
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Perlith
All American
7603 Posts
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| course : | CSC 246 |
| course rating : | 2 - Average |
| course comments : | More concept-based than programming. Easiest CSC course I've taken so far. |
| class : | Spring 2003 section 003 |
| grade received : | N/A |
| class rating : | 1 - Bad |
| class comments : | Programs were entirely too easy because data structures wasn't a prereq / coreq. How the heck do you explain OS algorithms when people aren't expected to know the data stuctures underlying them?
Weekly quizzes got annoying at times, though it forced attendence in a class that 90% of people would skip otherwise.
This course would make a nice compliment if you are taking CSC316 or CSC326 in the same semester. |
| instructor : | Williams |
| instructor rating : | 2 - Average |
| instructor comments : | Industry adjunct for the semester, so nothing gained and nothing lost. She showed us some IBM mainframe assembly stuff she worked on, which was kinda cool.
I can't complain much about her because it was mostly the course that sucked. |
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ShadowGuard
Veteran
128 Posts
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| course : | CSC 246 |
| course rating : | 2 - Average |
| course comments : | The material was kind of boring and it was hard to pay attention, this could be because of how late in teh day the class was. |
| class : | Fall 2003 section 001 |
| grade received : | B |
| class rating : | 2 - Average |
| class comments : | The course was challenging. Programming was done in C which they gave a 2 week crash course in using it with some pretty large programs to get you accustomed to it. After this teh programming assignments got easier but tehy were still to frequent. The book helped for studying but the tests were mostly off of the slides. There was a midterm and a final. Most of your grade was based on the homeworks. Overall the class was pretty hard and required a lot of time each week. |
| instructor : | Mueller |
| instructor rating : | 3 - Good |
| instructor comments : | Mueller was very nice but kind of boring in class. If the assignments couldn't be done on time and a few people complained about it then he would give teh class an extension. |
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Sir_Viktor
New Recruit
1 Posts
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| course : | CSC 246 |
| course rating : | 3 - Good |
| course comments : | I found this course to be interesting. The material it covered seemed a little advanced for a 200 level class, but it wasn't too difficult. |
| class : | Fall 2003 section 002 |
| grade received : | A |
| class rating : | 3 - Good |
| class comments : | A lot of people disliked this course because they accused Mueller of not being able to teach. The homeworks weren't too difficult. I liked how they dealt with real-life topics though, like process id, client/server communication, and other stuff. Don't get too turned off by the beginning of the semester. I felt like I was in a wind tunnel and everything said just went flying over my head. I thought I was gonna be screwed when it came time for the midterm, but I got an A and didn't study much at |
| instructor : | Mueller |
| instructor rating : | 3 - Good |
| instructor comments : | A lot of people had problems with Mueller, but I did not. I thought he was a good guy. Whenever the class requested an extension he always gave us one (from what I remember). His teaching methods weren't bad. He has an accent but it's not strong enough that you can't understand him. Tests are not that difficult and were graded fairly. |
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jimb0
All American
4667 Posts
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| course : | CSC 246 |
| course rating : | 3 - Good |
| course comments : | I learned a lot about Operating Systems in this course. |
| class : | Spring 2004 section 002 |
| grade received : | B |
| class rating : | 2 - Average |
| class comments : | I learned most of what was important about Operating Systems from the book itself (GREAT resource imo), and not from the lectures. I hate when teachers do their lessons in powerpoint. |
| instructor : | Miller |
| instructor rating : | 3 - Good |
| instructor comments : | Miller's a good instructor, but she can be really harsh on students who asks questions. She hates questions. Don't ask them. She is great in her collaborations with the TA's, and this I applaud her for. |
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steviewonder
All American
5576 Posts
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| course : | CSC 246 |
| course rating : | 2 - Average |
| course comments : | operating systems, kinda boring, but kinda important |
| class : | Fall 2004 section 001 |
| grade received : | A- |
| class rating : | 3 - Good |
| class comments : | class was ok, like i said though. the material is pretty damn stale |
| instructor : | Rosier |
| instructor rating : | 3 - Good |
| instructor comments : | good teacher, the class was taught in java, and he didnt know java too well, but that didnt really hurt the learning at all. he was pretty good about grading(not taking off many points) |
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nintool
All American
2623 Posts
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| course : | CSC 246 |
| course rating : | 3 - Good |
| course comments : | pretty easy....but then again i've been exposed to a lot of this stuff in the past |
| class : | Fall 2004 section 002 |
| grade received : | A |
| class rating : | 4 - Awesome |
| class comments : | good...didn't have to take notes, but the slides were only really useful for studying for tests |
| instructor : | Mueller |
| instructor rating : | 4 - Awesome |
| instructor comments : | he knows his stuff, but powerpoint isn't a great way to teach |
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awncsu
New Recruit
7 Posts
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| course : | CSC 246 |
| course rating : | 2 - Average |
| course comments : | Why would you teach operating system concepts using Java?? Bring back C. |
| class : | Spring 2005 section 002 |
| grade received : | N/A |
| class rating : | 3 - Good |
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| instructor : | Freeh |
| instructor rating : | 4 - Awesome |
| instructor comments : | Dr. Freeh makes sure everything is graded fairly. He is responsive to student questions, goes over material in different ways if he needs to, and actually elaborates on the lecture slides. |
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