Professor: Yves Lesperance
Department: Computer Science
College: York University (all campuses), Toronto, ON
Rating # 1
Overview:
- Course: EECS1022
- Grade Received: Not sure yet
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: No
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
I bet this guy doesn't even know how to program. All his slides, labs, and probably exams are leeched off of another professor (Roumani). He doesn't know how to lecture either, can barely understand himself. He also is such a slow grader, we took 3 lab exams and only the first one was graded after 3 months, moreover half the exams were misgraded.
Rating # 2
Overview:
- Course: EECS1720
- Grade Received: B+
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: No
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
He is very knowledgeable, but I find it to be extremely difficult to sit through his lectures. You're better off not attending them, since he will just post the slides online (what he directly reads off of).
Rating # 3
Overview:
- Course: EECS2030
- Grade Received: Not sure yet
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
He is hard to pay attention to in lecture. None the less his tests are pretty fair and the labs are fairly straightforward once you get your head around the format. He does make labs look more complicated then they are but once you get used to it its fine. He remembered to email me about accommodations for my disability which no profs do!
Rating # 4
Overview:
- Course: EECS1022
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
He has a lisp and an accent which make him hard to understand and pay attention to. After the first week of his lectures half of the class transferred to another section of the course. He never seems prepared during lectures as he always reads professor Roumani's ppt and very rarely replies to emails, so if you need help he is never there. HORRIBLE
Rating # 5
Overview:
- Course: EECS1022
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
horrible, horrible, horrible. I had to attend lectures for another section as well because he is so bad
Rating # 6
Overview:
- Course: 3401
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Awful
Rating # 7
Overview:
- Course: CSE1030
- 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:
This professor is almost impossible to pay attention to in class, he is quite hard to understand when he is explaining complex topics and he uses notes provided by other professors. He always appears to simply be reading the notes from the slides and makes me wonder what I am paying him for when I could just get the same thing from reading myself.
Rating # 8
Overview:
- Course: CSE3401
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I found this course tough. The prolog assignments where not trivial. They significantly changed the course by consolidating cse3401 and cse3402. cse3401 was a prerequisite for 3402 so consolidating them did not seem to make sense. Professor Yves is good prof teaching a tough subject and giving tough assignments.
Rating # 9
Overview:
- Course: CSC324
- 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:
Was my instructor for a course in 1987 at U of T. At the time, he was a graduate student and taught CSC324. Many years later now, and with time to reflect on the past and to take things into consideration, I have to say, he was one of the worst teachers. Briefly, I reached out to him for help. He proved himself to be a despicable person.
Rating # 10
Overview:
- Course: CSE1030
- 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:
Knows his stuff, but painstakingly hard to pay attention to during a lecture. You will be better off skipping his class and doing some code at home because whenever you attend his class, 90% of the time will be him reading slides that are also posted online.
Rating # 11
Overview:
- Course: CSE1030
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Yves Lespérance is knowledgeable. His French accent has no relevance to his teaching, his English is better than most people where English is their first language. CSE1030 is not a lecture course but a programming course. You need to program and the book is quite helpful along with internet. I got a raw score of 'B' but was bumped to 'B+'
Rating # 12
Overview:
- Course: CSE1030
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Hell.
Rating # 13
Overview:
- Course: CSE1030
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Doesn't seem like the best choice for first year courses. The class wasn't overly difficult, but the parts of the exam were a nightmare. It didn't touch on some key aspects we learned, and overly focused on rather unimportant aspects, mainly GUI.
Rating # 14
Overview:
- Course: CSE1030
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ... unclear prof i dont even knw if he knws the material . BORING to the max pauses every 2 sec
Rating # 15
Overview:
- Course: CSE6390
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
excellent and knowledgeable prof!
Rating # 16
Overview:
- Course: ITEC1620
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Boring BORING BORING!, even though the prof knows alot about about programming, he is really boring to listen to, he's often confused about what he's taking about and has to repeat again, pauses every 10 seconds to re-coupe his train of thought. Don't ask for help, he'll confuse u even more. Overall avoid his class at all cost. look for prof chris
Rating # 17
Overview:
- Course: COSC3401
- 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:
Hard assignments. very time consuming. Impossible to stay awake at his class. Started coming to his class with a small coffee. Towards the end of the course had to bring a large mug and still it wasn't enough to keep me awake. All the assignments , tests returned way way pass due date. Other than that he seems like a nice guy.
Rating # 18
Overview:
- Course: COSC3401
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Very good guy, knows the stuff. Some bad french accent though which would most likely make you sleep with a "aaaaaa eeeee aaaaaa" in the end of each word :)
Rating # 19
Overview:
- Course: 4080
- 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:
1020 students should be ashamed for judging Yves. He's such a brilliant person! And he's very nice too. Yes, he might have unclear pronunciation, but HEY! he compensates it by achieving so much in his professional life. I had great time working with him
Rating # 20
Overview:
- Course: COSC1030
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Lectures are boring but organised. Assignments are decent.
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