Dave Turton - Conestoga College, Kitchener, ON

Professor: Dave Turton

Department: Computer Science

College: Conestoga College, Kitchener, ON

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: INFO2320
• Grade Received: INC
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Doesnt explain anything and just talks about stories and his vacations every class

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: PROG2230
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Does not give concrete answers. NOT a people person, I'm not sure he even cares about his own job. His lectures are confusing and convoluted. He marks unfairly using scripts. Doesn't even check your code. Probably one of the worst professors I've had. Avoid at all costs. 0/10 awful

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: PROG2230
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

David is so afraid of giving away answers that he forgets to teach. He will start one sentence with a clear purpose but by the end he has started talking about something completely unrelated. Avoid this teacher at all costs. He is being paid 100k a year to jerk off infront of the class. Attendance is awful because of his succinct inability to teach

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: PROG2230
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

If you skip class constantly you will certainly have your work cut out for you, which I think is fair. He does often offer bonus exercises for those who show up (6% total this semester) and is very prompt with email replies. Not always clear in class, but helpful in person. It's a difficult course regardless of teacher and many people just give up.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: PROG2230
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Easily the worst teacher I've ever had. Antagonistic and condescending towards students. He doesn't answer questions directly. Lectures are a mess, as he frequently jumps around from lecture, to project he's working on in class, to current assignment. Oftentimes, his code doesn't work, and in lecture he just skips to the next matter on his list.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: WEB
• Grade Received: F
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

not helpful, doesn't answer emails

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: PROG2230
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Prepare to be tested on things you've never seen before, not in lectures, not in assignments and not on the test reviews.

Rating # 8

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

turton is the best teacher

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: PROG2230
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

He wings the entire course. He fumbles his way through lecture until it somehow magically works, and is NOT prepared. HE learned more during his 'debugging' lecture than us students. The number of times he has used the wrong datatype or flat out was wrong about how MVC works boggles my mind.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: INFO2070
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Dave picks people every year to fail. If you are this person there is no way you will pass.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: PROG1
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Turton is a wonderful teacher :D

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CS1
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Dave is the bomb. He made it make sense, used analogies that were humorous and kept us interested. Definitely eccentric...but in a good way :) Oh and if you EVER needed help he was there and willing. Anyone who doesn't learn from Dave just isn't paying attention or showing up, simple as that.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: PROG2230
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Professor of highest caliber. Probably the best in entire college. You will be stressed and sweaty on every class, in the end you will feel like a ASP.NET guru. Very challenging class, we did 8 assignments spending 20 hours on average on each. It was all worth it. Great value for the money.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: PROG2230
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Dave is always open for help after lectures, he is also very proficient in teaching the subject. Just want to suggest one improvement: stop lecturing sometimes to ask students if they understood everithing, and if they not, go again one or twice the same topic. Thanks.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: PROG2230
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Delightful with this subject teaching. Would recommend to others.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: WINBLOWSSERVER
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Well... He's always got that silly look on his face and somehow thinks windows is the greatest thing since sliced break, and his lectures are near impossible to follow (not that you need to bother with the lectures)... but he's a ok guy. Definitely don't bother buying the textbook for this course if you're competent in any way whatsoever. NOT hard.

Rating # 17

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

Very good, You First Year Student's will think that he is hard, but once you get to know his teaching style, It'll blow you away, Seriously

Rating # 18

Overview:

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

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

Comment:

No Comments

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: NETWD3UNIX
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Dave isn't too bad of a guy. Once you get John McKay, you will LOVE Dave. So don't be hatin.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: OS
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

He's a nice guy, but the class is soooo boring!