Frank Butt - San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

Professor: Frank Butt

Department: Computer Science

College: San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CS160
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

This was a project based class. Pray you don't have slackers on your team since it is random.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CS160
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

The guy can't teach. He reads off those textbook slides. He has his full time job at IBM and dont care about students. There is a group project which is expected for this class, but no direction or mentorship. He does not take attendance, but it is mandatory otherwise you lose points on the scrum meetings. Avoid

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CS157B
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

His lectures are boring and not interesting. He does not put any effort into his class. Very laid back. Occasionally late or let students out early.... not a good professor.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CS160
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Attendance is kind of mandatory for scrum meetings, but outside of that, not really. He does take attendance in all his classes though. He definitely puts more effort in to his upper division classes over his lower division classes. Fairly laid back for 160, let classes out early to watch warrior games

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: SE149
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Material was vague and based on textbook. To be honest, I didnt learn anything new or practical. Both projects and the midterm are tough, but the final is relatively easy. Fortunately, at the end he put a big curve that is bigger than the curve on the EARTH LOL. That makes up for the toughness.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CS174
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Wouldn't take it again with him even for a million dollars. Taught abs nothing whole semester. If you didn't do nothing in the projects, you learned nothing in the class. No ppts, no lectures. Gives assignment teaches nothing on how to do it. Self taught class, no need to come to class. wasn't ready for class. lots of hws expect work.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CS174
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Always come to class unprepared and brag about his job at IBM. His lecture is pointless, only about his life stories nobody cares. Yeah we get it you work for IBM, so what? Doesn't automatically qualify you become a good professor. Please resign from SJSU and stop ruining our future. No wonder IBM is going downhill with a "senior manager" like him

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: CS47
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Excellent teacher with extensive industry experience. The CS47 class will learn a lot of assembly code and learning a lot about bits and bytes, memory representation, hierarchy, etc. His lecture can be a little unorganized especially when he writes on the board (not necessarily left to right). Tests are tricky but he lets you use notes and book.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: CS47
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Professor Butt's teaches practical programming skills. His assignments are meaningful, the time I spent working on them paid off at my work. I impressed my boss by code optimization. Lectures are informative grading is fair. I hope to take another his class before graduation in 2016.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: CS47
• 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: Mandatory

Comment:

Materials discussed in class will be tested in midterms and final. Programming assignments are time consuming, make sure ask him questions about them before it is too late. Lecture is fast and confusing. Cover less materials than the other course. We wasted 2 class time to watch a movie and discuss it. Not irrelevant. Textbook is lightly used.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CS267
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

It was good chance to learn real tool for IBM. Class was not hard programming project as easy and Grading was fair.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CS167B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Cool prof, but labs are really hard and time consuming. Hw's are based on power point slides. Though the project is really interesting; you need to start on it right away. I also liked his motivational personal stories. Fair grader.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CS47
• 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:

good lecturer. info is presented clearly and succinctly. tests aren't easy, but mostly fair aside from a little bit of trickiness. subject info from lectures is what you're tested on(no surprises). he curves. funny.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: CS157B
• 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:

What I heard about him is not true. In fact, this semester he wants to pass everyone, even better gives good grades. Believe it or not, easy A+. HW1 is kind of tricky; HW2 is super easy. 2 Mids are not very hard, but final is almost identical to mids. Project is heavy and hard, but to me it is the best one at cs dept. Highly Recommend!

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: DBMS1
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

I do recommend you to take his class. Very clear presentation; very knowledgeable and useful course.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: CS167B
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Very challenging projects. Easy HWs but Tricky exams. Calm going, very pleasant, never saw him bad tempered. Quite approachable. Can make the class a little interactive and interesting.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: CS185C
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

I do recommend you to take Butt's class if you need a grade: labs are the hardest things during the semester assigned and graded by his grader. You will have 3 quizzes (midterms but he calls them quizzes)and the final(40%). You will not know your grade anytime during the semester until you they are posted in mysjsu.Surprise grader, ended up with B.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: CS157A
• 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:

His exams are meant to be tricky tricky. This guy will read straight from the book every lecture. His lecture is boring - no lecture plan, no slide, no prep at all. Got -A from reading the book and learned myself. Terrible teacher.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: CS47
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Unprepared Lectures: He stares at the book for two minutes, writes something on the board, says 10 words or less and stares at the book for two minutes again. First quiz was open book / open notes with 10 questions (7 Mult. Choice) and it still took the fastest person 1.5 hours to finish. Book is worthless. HW and Final were OK. Enjoy!

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: CS267
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Excellent and challenging projects. Final exam is tough but grades are curve. Heavy workload thoughout the semester. Weak students usually drop out early so you are competing with good students all semester.