Rina Dechter - University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA

Professor: Rina Dechter

Department: Computer Science

College: University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CS179
• 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:

Wow best class I've ever taken. This professor is the best at ICS! She teaches her own work so she provides the intuition of the creator. MUST TAKE PROFESSOR!!

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CS175
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

For this project course we give presentations to the class. She is incredibly inconsiderate and cuts people off in the middle of explaining and condescendingly tells the student it makes no sense... but this is because she cuts them off before finishing their explanation and because her English is not good.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ICS271
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Definitely needs english lessons. All her slides were taken from some other prof. Homeworks are too tough if you work on them after reading her vague slides. Not too good with explaining stuff in class although she tries hard.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CS171
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Her homework questions are vague. At one point she changed the syllabus to accomodate a homework she stole off of another UCI professors website. She can't teach. The coding project she assigned was too large. Knowledgeable... but that's her only appealing attribute.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CS271
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

She is knowledgable about AI. Nicely prepared slides, and runs through them nicely. Evenly paced class. Tries to encourage class participation, helpful. Only downside is tedious homeworks. Overall, good AI teacher.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ICS6A
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

she needs to take an english class. it's funny how she writes across all the walls in the class, so you're looking at all directions to take notes. tests are pretty hard

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ICS171
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Can't teach, she tries though. Assigns the most tedious homework assignments ever. Her first two hw assignments came from the graduate AI class she was teaching, wtf. Take her if you like book work. If you're interested in programming AI, stick with Frost instead.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ICS6A
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Her quizzes are random and her test and closely associated with the HW and Lectures... she does not give good exams... I would not recommend this teacher... withdrew from this class 9th week and took it next qtr with Park and ended up getting an easy A.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: ICS6A
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Hard to understand, but super easy quizzes and plenty of chances for extra credit. Midterm was easy and final not to bad.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ICS6A
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

The grading system in this class was hilarious, because there was none. Easy to get a B, very hard to get an A. BTW, she never was in her office during office hours.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: 6A
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

I don't know what the other two are smoking, but she was not very helpful. English was not her primary language and she had trouble understanding questions asked in class as well as reading things from the book.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: ICS6A
• 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:

One of the easiest professors you'll find...drops 2 quizzes and 2 hws for the really lazy, but the tests were simple and not hard at all

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: ICS6A
• 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 easy midterm and final. clear. better than Math 6A. easy A+.