Professor: Robert Heckendorn
Department: Computer Science
College: University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Rating # 1
Overview:
- Course: CS475
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: No
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
His lectures are unclear. Uses lots of "this", "it", "that" and pointing. No context or path to follow. Just stuttering and stopping fits of information. He seems to know the info, but not well enough to describe it, or the assignments. Doesn't help with assignments just points to book. He's rude too, especially if you're lost. Waste of money.
Rating # 2
Overview:
- Course: CS112
- Grade Received: A+
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
The class is easy at first, gets harder towards the end. Seriously need to come to class and focus about half way through the semester. Pay attention. Ask for help, but expect his reply to be cryptic. Gives a lot of time to do homework, but homework will be hard towards the end. Study the CODE for the tests, be able to write it down!!
Rating # 3
Overview:
- Course: CS112
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He's really bad. 90% of the stuff he covers in lecture is not going to help you. There's like 5 assignments and 2 tests over the whole year. It's simple programming stuff you learned on your own, and bs vocab words with definitions he made up.
Rating # 4
Overview:
- Course: CS210
- 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:
Great Prof, very helpful. Very geeky!
Rating # 5
Overview:
- Course: CS210
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Great instructor! Just take notes and ask lots of questions about the tricky homework assignments. The worst ones still only took me about 5-6 hours.
Rating # 6
Overview:
- Course: CS445
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The assignments can be a 5 hour affair, or 2 weeks of impossible frustration... depending on how good you are at the homework. And his midterm was cake... he gave us a copy of it before we had to take it.
Rating # 7
Overview:
- Course: CS310
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very intelligent man, and actually excited about what he teaches, but is so far out there that it is hard to understand him. His lectures have NOTHING to do with his assignments, and his tests are extremely hard. Could be good with some improvement.
Rating # 8
Overview:
- Course: CS310
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
His classes were easy for me, but he's not always the best at getting information across. Assignments are challenging, but none that I had to put more than about 20 hours into. Tests were fairly easy.
Rating # 9
Overview:
- Course: 445
- 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:
I *heard* he was getting better at teaching. Um...No.
Rating # 10
Overview:
- Course: CS445
- 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:
He's super smart, but he's a total space cadet. He explains things on a different level. His assignments are challenging; only his grading sucks (often the fault of his spacey mind).
Rating # 11
Overview:
- Course: CS445
- 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:
Expect to spend countless hours on assignments, and just when you think you have it all working, you get a 50% on it. Also, no matter what you do, his tests will always kick your ass.
Rating # 12
Overview:
- Course: CS310
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Oh my, you mean have to do work in a computer science class? That's unheard of! Seriously, a better CS professor would be hard to find.
Rating # 13
Overview:
- Course: CS445
- 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:
Good thing I have 80 hrs/wk to devote to each of his sporadic assignments, otherwise I'd be flunking this class.
Rating # 14
Overview:
- Course: CS310CS
- 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:
His tests R ****, assignments R hell in o' can. I did learn a lot (out of class)
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