Fred Strauss - NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY

Professor: Fred Strauss

Department: Computer Science

College: NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CS4513
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Very not clear. You will be confused and lost with no direction. Project documentation is super vague and you never know what he wants for exams. Good luck

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CS4513
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

How is he still teaching? He doesn't even know the material. Wonder what the department would think if someone shows a video of him during lecture to see.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CS4513
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

slides are basically all the images and diagrams from the textbook pasted into a powerpoint.. mainly says stories instead of actually teaching... would not recommend to take..

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CS4513
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

No grading rubric. The grading is subjective and VERY INCONSISTENT. Concepts not explained clearly. His exams are all over the place, especially the multiple choice questions. You will never know what he wants/expects. Good luck.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CS4513
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

makes you memorize all the chapters.. says the same facebook girl story over and over again.. worse professor in nyu hands down

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CS4513
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Grading is inconsistent, no rubric. Many details required in the documentation is not mentioned clearly in class. The class is all over the place.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CS4513
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Literally makes you memorize the details of every chapter for the exam .. doesnt even have it memorized himself and hes been teaching this course for years.. whats the point of making people memorize the whole point is to learn

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: CS4513
• 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:

I have worked at 2 software companies way bigger than his precious Bell Labs ever was or will be, and this guy knows as much about modern software engineering as a fish knows how to climb stairs. If what he teaches is considered CS, then you can call a theater arts major a Computer Scientist.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: CS4513
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

the entire class is just paying homage to the agile method and creating documents for a group project which differ little from each other. he only ever talks about his time at Bell Labs and won't ever move past that. it's unfortunate that this class is required for all CS majors because we learned nothing about modern software projects.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: CS6063SE
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Extremely difficult grader. Teaches something puts something different in the lecture. Lover of IBM and Apple and will mention stories about them almost every other lecture. Grading is soleley dependent if he likes your answers. There is no right and wrong.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CS6083
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

All things the professor does is reading the slides and talking about some jokes about the companies like Apple or Microsoft. The exam content basically has no relationship with what he talked about in class. The professor is the worst one I've ever met in my student career. DO NOT TAKE his courses.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CS6083
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Read slide only. If something wrong and confusing happens, he just skip the slide. The course on second half is so confusing that I have to read book on my own.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CS6063
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

The professor either reads the slides or tells stories during the lecture. Totally disorganized with multiple times of syllabus change during the whole semester. Terrible slides lack continuity, with terminologies never found on textbook or the Internet. Expect a lot of textbook reading and group project work if you're going to take this class.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: CS6063SE
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Besides the unclear slides and expression, the arrogant attitude is the real problem. It looks like he just made all the slides in 5 mins and kept using it for 15 years. The questions in the test has nothing to do with the reviews in the slides. This lazy, arrogant teacher just ruins the reputation of this school. Worst teacher ever.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CS6063
• Grade Received: B-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Unclear expression, bad slides, regular digression, meaningless review (much of review will not be in the exam). No coding in Software engineering, just reports and reports. Never try SE, even advisor recommends it.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: CS6063
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

You need to recite a lot. Learn little from his lecture. And really tough grading. not much feedback.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: CSGY6083
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

His class was boring as he just used to cruise through his slides. Sometimes even he didn't know what was there on his slides, he would beat around the bush sometimes answering the questions raised by students. Just go through his slides. Expect Relational Algebra, Designing DB schema and writing queries and ER diagram in both tests. NOTHING ELSE!

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: CS6063
• Grade Received: A+
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

I took graduate course under him, amazing professor. Do not expect many assignments, the projects are tough and time consuming and you will learn a lot in them.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: CS6083
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Please don't take this professor's class

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: CS6083
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

The worst teacher I ever met in poly. You cann't learn anything from his class. And the grading is very tough. You will be very regret to enroll in his class. Trust me!