Sandy Graham - University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

Professor: Sandy Graham

Department: Computer Science

College: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CS234
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Sandy Graham is an ok-ish prof. She is not the best when it comes to answering students' questions, especially on Piazza. She answers very vaguely and says "any more information will provide a partial solution". That comment is kind of discouraging because I'm just asking a question about a concept I don't understand, not trying to get a solution.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CS234
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Unsure as to why she still continues to teach in the same manner described as previous comments or at all. She is monotoned and does not explain the materials clearly. There isn't a flow to her lectures and she will jump from one topic to another. There were times where she'd spend half an hour explaining a concept then say we don't need to know it

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CS115
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Fairly dry lectures, but she teaches you what you need to know to do well in the course. Not very engaging, doesn't make lectures fun.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CS135
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

No one should choose her. I attended her lectures just for the clicker questions. And she made CS disgusting. She made many mistakes in her lectures.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CS135
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

She is really not bad. Quite inspirational if you listen carefully. She tells you important do/ don't on assignments and exams. She also explains the philosophy behind computer science (e.g. how to approach a seemingly tedious question) which is quite rare among other profs.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CS115
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

It's a good thing I was able to teach myself this material because she was not able to. She wasn't particularly helpful, her lectures were boring, and she made me not enjoy CS, I had enjoyed it up until then. Honestly she just wasn't a good prof. I understood her but all she ever did was examples, the exam had better just be examples then.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CS115
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Don't take her!! Three are so many other good profs. If you cannot get into their class just drop the course and take it next term. It is better than wasting your time taking a class that will make you hate CS!!

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: CS135
• Grade Received: C+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Boring

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: CS135
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Took her class in Fall 2016. Explanations were quite vague and boring compared with other profs. I'm quite amazed how she overcomplicated such a basic course. And I'm more amazed that she still teaches at all. It's just not your thing, get over it and practice something else.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: CS135
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

If you say she is a normal prof, why you select no in "Would you take this prof again"? Actually, she doesn't teach as well as other three profs.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CS135
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Don't be so scared because of those comments if you want to choose her, just a very normal prof.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CS135
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

If I took another prof's class, I would increase my mark by at least 20 per cent

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CS135
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Never choose ever

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: CS115
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

As others have said, she rushed through the material a lot. I remember that she was always behind. There were days where her clicker software magically doesn't work, especially in the last few classes. But you know what? It's not that the software doesn't work, it's because you're lying to us because you're really slow.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CS135
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

She didn't teach the most important part for the exam and miss many things

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: CS135
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I don't know anymore, but you can learn everything using the coursenote.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: CS135
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

She covers the code things, but the rating system also considers other part of a program, such as design recipe, which is not included. She always rushes through the material and shows much outside the class, which is not helpful for getting higher mark in assignment and exams.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: CS135
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

She makes lots of mistakes on classes, which even violated the standard used for making homework. Usually don't know what she was doing. Although on several of the classes I found her lecture pretty good, this possibilities is really small and most of time she is messy on class. Avoid her if you can.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: CS135
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

She rushes through a lot of materials that are supposed to be covered detailedly. She kept saying that she's not going to spend much time on the course notes yet most parts of her lectures were around the course notes. She is quite accessible outside of the classroom, though.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: CS135
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

she rush through module 6 and the entire midterm2 was on module 6....