btthekke
All American
4022 Posts
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| course : | CSC 326 |
| course rating : | 4 - Awesome |
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| class : | Fall 2001 section 001 |
| grade received : | N/A |
| class rating : | 4 - Awesome |
| class comments : | |
| instructor : | Williams |
| instructor rating : | 4 - Awesome |
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zeitgeist
All American
5216 Posts
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| course : | CSC 326 |
| course rating : | 4 - Awesome |
| course comments : | |
| class : | Fall 2001 section 001 |
| grade received : | A |
| class rating : | 4 - Awesome |
| class comments : | |
| instructor : | Williams |
| instructor rating : | 4 - Awesome |
| instructor comments : | |
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cholmon
New Recruit
4 Posts
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| course : | CSC 326 |
| course rating : | 3 - Good |
| course comments : | Easy class, but a lot of work. The material is extremely useful, so pay attention and make it a point to try to remember as much content from the class as possible. You end up coding better when you try to actually use some basic "engineering" principles do design your software. |
| class : | Spring 2001 section 002 |
| grade received : | B+ |
| class rating : | 3 - Good |
| class comments : | Laurie kept us all busy as hell. Assignments of all sorts (mainly group projects) are due every couple of weeks, and by the end of the semester, you'll have a ton of grades that make up your final average. It's not incredibly hard though. If you make an good effort to participate with your team, and your software ends up working right, you'll get A's. The final sucked though, at least for me. I studied for about 30 minutes and bombed then hell out of it, hence a B+ and not an A. |
| instructor : | Williams |
| instructor rating : | 3 - Good |
| instructor comments : | She's got a good attitude and is nice, but she assigned so much damn work, especially for a 300 level course. and she's the one that alot of guys think is hot. |
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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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Jannerrrrr
New Recruit
14 Posts
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| course : | CSC 326 |
| course rating : | 2 - Average |
| course comments : | The material itself is easy, but the class requires a lot of time. |
| class : | Fall 2002 section 002 |
| grade received : | A+ |
| class rating : | 2 - Average |
| class comments : | It just took so much time outside of class...and being forced to do pair programming isn't so great. |
| instructor : | Williams |
| instructor rating : | 2 - Average |
| instructor comments : | She did a pretty good job, but I think she's a little too idealistic. I doubt anyone is *really* going to take what she says to heart. And she tends to blow off people's questions in class. |
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camello2
New Recruit
1 Posts
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| course : | CSC 326 |
| course rating : | 1 - Bad |
| course comments : | The material is anything but interesting. I'd rather be doing anything except memorizing a bunch of junk that I don't care about for tests-- like, for example, the twelve points of extreme programming. |
| class : | Fall 2002 section 002 |
| grade received : | B+ |
| class rating : | 2 - Average |
| class comments : | Big lecture class that didn't take attendance, but Laurie likes to call on people randomly using her roll. |
| instructor : | Williams |
| instructor rating : | 3 - Good |
| instructor comments : | She's nice and it's not her fault that peer programming is annoying. Oh yeah, get ready to write a billion test cases... that's always fun, too. |
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dr_toast
Veteran
102 Posts
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| course : | CSC 326 |
| course rating : | 1 - Bad |
| course comments : | I dont give a rats ass about eXtreme programming |
| class : | Fall 2002 section 002 |
| grade received : | B- |
| class rating : | 2 - Average |
| class comments : | This class is a serious pain in the butt. Expect to put in lots of hours, especially on the final project. The tests have little to do with actual code, lots of model drawing and other things I reguard as irritating. Attendance is required and she is quite sneeky about checking it. Taught mostly through powerpoint slides, would have made a better online course. |
| instructor : | Williams |
| instructor rating : | 3 - Good |
| instructor comments : | Laurie Williams did a good job with a very icky class. |
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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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steviewonder
All American
5576 Posts
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| course : | CSC 326 |
| course rating : | 2 - Average |
| course comments : | necessary class, but like dr. williams says, it sucks to be in it, but its great to have taken it and gotten it behind you |
| class : | Fall 2004 section 001 |
| grade received : | A |
| class rating : | 4 - Awesome |
| class comments : | class is as awesome as it can be. well, except for the labs and projects. they are vital to the class, and aren't all that difficult...its just that they are time consuming |
| instructor : | Williams |
| instructor rating : | 4 - Awesome |
| instructor comments : | cool teacher, plenty of chances for extra credit |
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