Professor: Paul Artola
Department: Computer Science
College: University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
Rating # 1
Overview:
- Course: CMSC203
- 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:
Very clear in what he says and is very approachable. Kind of funny sometimes. Tries to be engaging although the topics he covers can often be pretty boring, but, for me at least, the content was easy.
Rating # 2
Overview:
- Course: CMSC203
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Kind of funny, but mostly boring. He just reads a UMass Boston professor's lecture notes to the class for an hour and a half and calls it a day. Doesn't seem to care too much about teaching. Not too horrible if you're stuck with him, but there are much better profs for this course.
Rating # 3
Overview:
- Course: CMSC203
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Best teacher for 203. Very entertaining, which is important for such a dense subject. Exams from '93 are available on his website. Only 4 short homework assignments (compared to weekly homework in other sections) and drops your lowest hw, exam, inclass.
Rating # 4
Overview:
- Course: CMSC203
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He's a cool guy. I think that he's hot, but I like the shape of penguins and ellipses.
Rating # 5
Overview:
- Course: CMSC203
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I thought he went through the material too fast. He assumed that we had all covered a lot of this stuff previously, but before his class I had never done truth tables or sets or logic, so he didn't explain it all clearly enough for me. It wasn't a hard class though. Pretty easy for CMSC majors. I'm a math major tho so it wasn't quite as easy.
Rating # 6
Overview:
- Course: CMSC203
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The class is very boring. he drops a lot of stuff. easy to get a B in class without much effor but make sure you understand the material, you will need it in 313 and 341.
Rating # 7
Overview:
- Course: CMSC203
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
To elaborate a bit more... He does drop the lowest scores out of hw, tests, and group assignments. Alt. - his attendance scoring seems rather arbitrary throughout the years. Best advice - just study past tests, memorize how to do it his way, and you should be OK! Otherwise, don't think you're right if you answer isn't solved using his approach.
Rating # 8
Overview:
- Course: CMSC203
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Has an evil twin that he calls the ?GRADER? (cough cough). If your answers aren't a verbatim copy of his - you'll lose massive pts - even if right. As anyone who has practiced mathematics knows, there is more than one way to the correct answer. But, in this class, there is only one... Otherwise, he is relatively nice. Curve is non-existant.
Rating # 9
Overview:
- Course: CMSC202
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Just to revise my previous post: althoug there are 4hws,3inclasses,and 3 tests, you can drop the lowest of each leaving only 3 hws, 2 inclasses and 2 tests factored into your grade
Rating # 10
Overview:
- Course: CMSC202
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Good prof,knows wht hes talkin abt and teaching,class is a bit mundane and sometimes hard to stay awake so factor that in,grade based on 3 in classes,4hws,2tests,participation,and final exam.but 2 tests and final worth 300 out of 400 points.100% on other assignments completed.Tests since '93 available online,easy to get points,good curve
Rating # 11
Overview:
- Course: CMSC203
- 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:
I sware he looks like peter from Family guy , Clearly explains what you need to know and has all old exams available to students. All you need to do is the old exams and your set , but the theories / theroms are kind of hard but hey there is a curve
Rating # 12
Overview:
- Course: CMSC203
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Clearly explains what you need to know and has all old exams available to students.
Rating # 13
Overview:
- Course: CMSC203
- 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:
Not necesarily the easiest class ive ever taken, but he did try to work with us to explain everything. Very helpful if you needed it.
Rating # 14
Overview:
- Course: CMSC203
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very easy teacher. Helps out whenever you need it. Tests are somewhat difficult, but are very passable, if you pay attention.
Rating # 15
Overview:
- Course: CMSC203
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
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Rating # 16
Overview:
- Course: CMSC203
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He posts old exams and they are the same every semester. He just changes the values in the problems.
Rating # 17
Overview:
- Course: CMSC203
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I've had much worse. He's funny, entertaining, and helpful, and makes a daunting class a lot more tolerable. I just wish he'd teach Math and Stat.
Rating # 18
Overview:
- Course: CMSC203
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Not a great professor by any means, but he is the best to take for 203.
Rating # 19
Overview:
- Course: CMSC203
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
You have to be an idiot not to pass his class. He hand feeds to everything you need to know. Just pay attention sometimes. Likeable, positive, easy-going man.
Rating # 20
Overview:
- Course: CMSC203
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This professor is probably the funniest professor of all time! He makes jokes out of nowhere. I really recomend him for all of you taking(or will take) computer science. He makes everything easy to understand.Looks:he looked like the dad in "Family
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