Prasanna Ghali - DigiPen Institute of Technology, Redmond, WA

Professor: Prasanna Ghali

Department: Computer Science

College: DigiPen Institute of Technology, Redmond, WA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CS120
• 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:

Doesn't prepare for lectures, has a tendency to ramble incoherently and is absolutely uninspiring.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CS200
• Grade Received: INC
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Nonsensical. Period.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CS120
• 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:

Prasanna is a great teacher with experience in the field. He reminds us on the demands of this field of study. And also teaches us in the perspective of what the industry expects of you. However his lessons are only useful to those who are interested in the subject.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: DIGIPENDEAN
• 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: Not Mandatory

Comment:

He's a dean in digipen and he gives this attitude that everyone offends him. He makes no effort as a dean, on our graduation ceremony, he came to our ceremony unprepared, giving the most uninspirational speech a dean can possibly give, with a shoo-it-off tone. Any questions in the school policy will result in him talking down on you like pest

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CS120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

I feel his class is very unclear. He is definitely knowledgeable about Computer Science but I feel he is very adamant on students doing things his way and does not accept any other standard

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CS120
• 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 asked him ``can you explain function pointers again'' and he replied ``go bug your other instructor''. I learnt nothing from him and then he blamed me.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CS250
• 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:

When asked "can you show us how to do matrix multiplication", his reply was "go ask your math teacher".

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: CS225
• 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:

Insist that all code must use only the C++11 standard and standard library. As such, his assignments provide very little opportunity for using and testing other C++ libraries.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: CS120
• 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:

No doubt this man is extremely knowledgeable and intelligent in the field of Computer Science. However, this doesn't really give him the excuse to fail at least half the class based on extremely trivial technicalities due to insisting on "Industry Standard".

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: CS120
• 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:

Unreasonable lecturer. Even if you know your stuff, but don't explain it HIS way in the quizzes, you are wrong. If HE cant understand your handwriting when everyone can, you are wrong. If you put a wrong file name to an assignment, you get a ZERO without opening the file at all. Even if the program fully functions or not.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CS120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Very very difficult. You will be owned by this man! Knows his material very well. You pay dearly in his class if you ask stupid questions. I barely passed his class, but I have very solid understanding of C now. If you do not study VERY VERY hard for his class... YOU WILL FAIL. He is plainly the most difficult professor I have ever had in my life.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CS120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Extremely detailed, digs very deep into concepts. Students without prior knowledge would be confused. Also repeats material over and over again. Pace of teaching C is slow. But you will leave with a deep foundation of C.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CSCS12
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

he has been emphasizing that this course RTIS is not easy and everyone sure fail!! he has the knowledge but unable to teach. he always like to demoralize the students. i had a friend, he asked what are we suppose to study for the upcoming quiz? He replied in a rude tone, "ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING WILL BE TESTED!" =.= when is only 3 weeks into lesson

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: CS120
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

He is extremely good at what he is teaching, but because of that, he is kinda long winded, yet very precise in whatever he explains.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CS200
• 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:

just one word : worst

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: CS200
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Professor Ghali is probably one of the smartest people you will ever meet. He also makes sure to explain all the algorithms in class to great detail. He also expects you to write algorithms to the same detail. I actually enjoyed the class greatly, but I wish we got to derive more algorithms.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: CS250
• 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:

He's the freaking man. You don't think so? No my friend. You're wrong.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: CSB
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Ghali's teaching style may be difficult to understand at times, but if you approach him during office hours, he will gladly help you anything you didn't during class. The assignments are easy if you pay attention in class, and if you actually study for more than a day, you can pass the exams. I studied for 3 days and got a 39/40, so it can be done.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: CS250
• 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:

This guy is the main reason I ultimately dropped out of Digipen. His "help" consisted of telling me to read the VCR manual of a textbook while I waded through another of his complex and minimally explained homework assignments. He's not a teacher in the true sense of the word, more of a drill sergeant for hardcore graphics programmers.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: CS250
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Amazing, brilliant professor- nobody will argue that he doesn't know his stuff. He's not a good _teacher_, but few professors are. But also he's extremely approachable outside of class. Assignments take impossible amounts of time; tests are impossibly difficult. BE WARNED, '250 IS HARDER THAN '200 (in case you heard otherwise).