Professor: Soundararajan Ezekiel
Department: Computer Science
College: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
Rating # 1
Overview:
- Course: COSC300
- Grade Received: A-
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: No
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
He grades homework for completion, NOT correctness. He frustrates most of the class and is known to never lecture about the actual course material. Prepare to teach yourself. Told me to my face that reading the book would not help and then later denied it. He tested us on concepts that we have never once seen in class and werent even in the book.
Rating # 2
Overview:
- Course: COSC429
- Grade Received: B
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: No
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Admitted to the class that he's "not a cyber guy" in a digital forensics course. Homework "questions" are literally just the "In this chapter, you will learn..." bits from the beginning of textbook chapters. Exams questions are frequently not even questions (e.g. "Obtain a search warrant"). Goes off-topic constantly.
Rating # 3
Overview:
- Course: COSC105
- Grade Received: B
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
If you're just starting out as a Comp sci major this will be the easiest class you ever take. He knows what he is talking about and i respect him for it but he treats everyone like they should already know the information when they're just coming into the major. He also brags about himself way too much. Just read the book, easy A.
Rating # 4
Overview:
- Course: COSC316
- Grade Received: B
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Great professor. Loves to ramble on but very intelligent about security and computer science when discussing. Get ready to read and write papers. Very nice guy who will joke around with you and be serious when he needs to be. Would take again.
Rating # 5
Overview:
- Course: COSC110
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: No
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
One of my leasts favorite professors. He does not explain things very well and when you ask him questions he acts as if you are bothering him. He expects you to know a lot for entry level course,without actually teaching any of it. If you are not good with computer science I would not take him until you understand the basics of it atleast.
Rating # 6
Overview:
- Course: COSC105
- Grade Received: B
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
He loves to talk and you'll most likely end up hearing stories more than once, but he's a great teacher if you go class and take notes. He gives a quiz and homework for each chapter in his book, but they're easy if you take notes in his class. There's a midterm and final but they're mostly based off of the quizzes he gives you throughout the class.
Rating # 7
Overview:
- Course: COSC105
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: No
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Gets lost listening to himself speak and doesn't cover the material directly. No study guides for the exams so you are going in blind, but he's an easy grader and let us retake the midterm. Seems to know a lot about the material, but his ability to actually teach is non existent.
Rating # 8
Overview:
- Course: COSC405
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Had this professor a handful of times while at IUP. Best teacher I had. I took a few of his upper level classes, such as AI, simply because he was teaching it.
Rating # 9
Overview:
- Course: COM101
- Grade Received: A+
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is one of the best lecturer.
Rating # 10
Overview:
- Course: COSC101
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 4.5
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Professor Ezekiel's COSC 101 class was very easy. Anyone who says he was a hard teacher or have a ton of work just didn't feel like putting in the minimal effort needed to get an A in the class. He let everyone retake the quizzes and midterm as many times as they wanted to. I'd recommend him to anyone that has to take COSC 101
Rating # 11
Overview:
- Course: COSC 101
- Grade Received: B
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Nice guy. Bad teacher. This class is a 101 but not the work load. One chapter per week, quiz at the end every week. Multiple Microsoft office projects throughout the semester which are hard without the Microsoft Go book, which he expects you to read, along with the main class book, oh and a third book that you must write a 7 page paper on.
Rating # 12
Overview:
- Course: COSC300
- Grade Received: Not sure yet
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Terrible teacher. He expects you to memorize the book, and have every definition memorized along with the entire language semantics in the first two weeks. He rants and usually lectures on useless info. The bulk of the lecture is him talking about people who wrote the book that's required, or an author of a book that impacted the MIPS algorithm. F-
Rating # 13
Overview:
- Course: 14779
- Grade Received: A+
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
He a really cool guy
Rating # 14
Overview:
- Course: COSC110
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
At first, his accent is hard to understand but after a few classes it is barely noticeable. Very knowledgeable about the material and is willing to help. High workload if you wait till the last minute to do it. Overall was an enjoyable class.
Rating # 15
Overview:
- Course: COSC110
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Hard to understand but after the first few classes you will get used to his accent. Very good professor with high knowledge base of the material. Keep up with your work and you'll do well. Overall an enjoyable class.
Rating # 16
Overview:
- Course: COSC110
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is not that helpful. He is funny, but other than that he is not a good teacher. He gets off topic all the time and barely teaches the material. I had to teach myself most of the material. Then he randomly throws an unbelievable amount of work on you. I did not like him.
Rating # 17
Overview:
- Course: COSC110
- 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:
Ezekiel is very scary the first couple days but he is weeding the people out that don't want to be there. He is an awesome professor. He gives a lot of independent work but that helps me learn. He's very funny and once you get used to his accent it is very easy to pay attention in his class.
Rating # 18
Overview:
- Course: COSC300
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
This guy is awesome if you take the time to get to know him. He's hilarious and he really cares about how you do both in his class and in other classes. There are a lot of assignments but as long as they are done, you will get an A.
Rating # 19
Overview:
- Course: ASSEM300
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very hard to understand what he is saying and often goes off on tangents that have nothing to do with the material. Learned a lot about life in India, not much about Assembly. Copies illegible notes and does not go over them. Told us to study a quiz for the mid-term and there was nothing from the quiz on there. Grades very easy everyone gets an A.
Rating # 20
Overview:
- Course: COSC300
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dr. Ezekiel is an extremely funny, intelligent individual who deeply cares about the education and success of his students. If you aren't used to his accent, he can be a little hard to understand, but he will always set time aside outside of class to help students - or to find the help that students need, always giving a lot of time for makeup work
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