Neil Murray - University at Albany (SUNY Albany), Albany, NY

Professor: Neil Murray

Department: Computer Science

College: University at Albany (SUNY Albany), Albany, NY

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CSI210
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

TAKE MAT/CSI 221 FIRST!!!!!!!! Absolutely terrible professor by every standard imaginable. Exams are mostly unrelated to the homework questions and the book. You can't even teach yourself. You will usually hear people cuss during exams. It is THAT bad. I got an A ONLY because I took 221 first and he happened to have some related questions.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CSI210
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

I went to every single lecture, attended every discussion, did all the homeworks and ended up with a D+. His notes are way too confusing.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CSI311
• 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:

Very hard to understand.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CSI210
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

This guy can't teach at all... it's so embarrassing to witness. He doesn't even tell you how to do sample questions of the different sections.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CSI210
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

I felt like sleeping when he speaks.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CSI310
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Material tends to be mind-bending and if you're up to it, fun in a challenging way, and knowing Scheme and Prolog might be useful to some small portion of students someday, but ultimately 310 is pure academia. Decent curve. Torturous lectures. Less human than any of his coworkers, asking for help feels like appealing to a machine.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ICSI210
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Like others have said, class is EXTREMELY boring. Only about 25% show up to class. He had a strong tendency to fall into endless tangents and, with most questions in the lecture, he'll say, "Well I wont do that problem; it's too mundane." Bad teacher, bad class ... only take it with him if you have to.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: CSI210
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

ahhhh man the worst class by far, but if you try to pass the class you will.... he gives major curves on the test, just do homework and go to discusions you will do fine.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: CSI210
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Seems to know what he is talking about, I did not. Needs to go over problems in class. Notes were very clear and helpful. You need a text book to do the homework. TA Ben knows how to work you through problems(this should have been in class as well).

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: ICSI210
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Worst class. He basically throws the material at you and thats it. If you're lucky your TA is good. He has seizures in front of class, no one seems to know what is going on. His lectures are dry and notes are basically words on a white background. Dont take this class with him

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CSI201
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

this class he taught was the driving foce of me changing my major from computer science to political science.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CSI210
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

class was boring, but it's not Professors fault, he has to teach a bunch of people who only need the course for their b.s. (not bachelors sci) majors. People do bad in the course cause they have no understanding of formal logic due to an overemphasis of social sciences in America. No one goes to lectures except the students who have A's, go figure

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CSI311
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Wow... worst class ever. Homeworks are easy but terribly difficult with lack of instruction.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: CSI311
• 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:

The class material itself was already boring enough (Do we really still need to be learning Scheme and prolog?) and Murray definitly did not help. Extremely boring and useless classes. Easy Projects, tests so so, but came away with barely any information.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CSI210311
• 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:

Very weird hard to understand guy. He's pretty fair at the grading - but test are sometimes hard. Help's if u go to his office hour. But the only problem is that Its just way to hard to understand him (dont go to class, just learn by ureself tats my advis

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: CSI311
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Consider yourself lucky if you get a good TA for this class because you won't be able to do well on your own. It's not easy, but you will learn a lot. (CSI210 is a different story though, its hard and useless).

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: CSI210
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Horrible teacher. Had to suffer through 2 of his classes. Arrogant and painful to learn from.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: ACSI310
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Took way back in fall 1986. Had to enter this. Do Dr. Murray students still play Murray BaseBall ? That is counting the number of times he says,"Ahh,umm,err" etc.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: CSI210
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Very smart man... but a horrible teacher. Not only does he not seem to feel comfortable in front of a lecture he doesn't even use his own notes... thats right those are ravi's. I suggest buying the notes and skipping class all he does is read the notes.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: CSI210
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

very apathetic and thinks he's better then everyone