Daniel Frost - University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA

Professor: Daniel Frost

Department: Informatics

College: University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ICS62
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Easy teacher, but has no clue what he is teaching.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: IN4MATX43
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Frost holds pretty boring and mediocre lectures, but his lectures help out if you pay attention. However, he is very picky with answers to homework assignments and exams. His exams consist of material from lecture and the book. But all in all, you should not be too stressed for this class.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: IN4MATX43
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Frost is a really great lecturer. Just listening to him talk you can tell that he really enjoys teaching the class and talking about Informatics. He does a good job of explaining the material. The class itself isn't great, I found the material pretty boring and it can be vague with difficult tests, but Frost himself is very good.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: ICS161
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

This is a fun class. A little time consuming, but fun. Lectures are extremely optional because this class is essentially the video game version of ICS 45C. It's pretty easy. And some of the projects and programs are pretty fun to mess around with. Tests are easy too. Easy "A" as long as you're willing to put a little time into the projects.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: INF43
• Grade Received: C+
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Frost was interesting and funny, but his grading was tricky. You better read for the exams.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: IN4MATX43
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Overall, Frost is a nice guy, is fairly interesting when it comes to lectures, and most certainly has a distinct sense of humor. The subject matter, on the other hand, can feel boring and sloggish. The class itself is quite easy, only consisting of 3 exams and 3 homework assignments, and he records all of his lectures and posts them online.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ICS60
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Frost is a great teacher. He explains what he wants very thoroughly and what will be on the test are questions that will not catch you off guard because he literally gives answers in his lectures if you pay attention and attend. Just do what he wants, which is very little, and you'll receive an A. I love him so much I had him for a year.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ICS60
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Horrible Professor Irrelevant lectures pointless test questions and lots of reading. Not a helpful person and enjoys giving students bad grades. Convinced he is best person to walk the face of the earth

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: ICS60
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Worst professor I've ever had. He makes you read long articles that are barley related to the topic of the class and spends most of the time talking about something that isn't the main point of the article. When grading either a test or an essay he looks for key words he expects. If you use a synonym to the word he wanted no credit.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ICS60A
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

The entire CGS major here at UCI is a big joke, especially since it's run by Frost who doesn't even have a good understanding of modern games honestly. You're stuck reading about articles from the 1980s and what makes video games "art". Why not just list this course under the Arts huh? At least you're combining two equally poor curriculum

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: IN4MATX43
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Vague course with unclear instructions and expectations. Weekly quizzes were ridiculously nitpicky, often requiring exact wording. What he wanted from the assignments was also hard to understand because he was always so vague, especially the third one. Discussions were useless, and final contained a lot of random vocab we never covered in class.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: INFORMATICS43
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Generally easy course with very little of workload. Mandatory attendance for discussion sections for grade. Weekly quizzes, if you do the assigned readings you will pass them. Midterm and final were mostly all based on readings with some pulled from lecture. Three assignments that were somewhat vague. Very helpful in office hours.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: IN4MTX43
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

3 assignments, 12% each. 1st assignment was unorganized, 3rd assignment was vague. Expects you to memorize little details word for word from the reading assignments. Everything covered was too general. I feel like I learned nothing in this class. Hopefully next time he will use a textbook.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: IN4MTX43
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Material covered is useful. Quiz and midterm were ridiculously hard. Memorize everything in the readings. Including small diagrams. Studied over 10 hours on midterm. Review questions are nothing like the midterm at all. Emphasis on minute details. Stupid class with stupid expectations. I hate classes with tests like these.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: ICS10
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Go to Lecture! His assignments are very broad and unclear. Other than that, his midterm and final are open notes (though it didn't help much).

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ICS10
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Go to lecture..No book used

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: GAMES101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Sets the standard for Game Professors

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ICS52
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Reasonable grader, tough assignments. Somewhat challenging exams but not impossible. Interesting class but lost interest after a while in lecture since this past quarter it was a 3-hour lecture. Overall good class!

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: ICS61
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Very reasonable grader, reasonable workload, and a fairly decent lecturer. His material may not always seem relevant, but it is important; attend all lectures, read all assigned readings, and do all of your assignments and you will pass this class easily. Extremely helpful, as well, and the structure of the class encourages creativity.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: CS113
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Not hard to get a passing grade at all. However, the grading method is mainly based on opinion. This applies to the ICS 52 course as well. In other words you're not really learning anything. There is 1 benefit I got from CS 113 though, and that is networking with people.