Susan Brilliant - Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Professor: Susan Brilliant

Department: Computer Science

College: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CMSC401
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Although her projects are hard, she explains everything to the details. Besides, she is always available in her office and willing to answer questions, that's why I love her so much!!! She is a wonderful professor, I'm gonna miss her!

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CMSC420
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Pro tips for Brilliants classes: Don't argue with her, especially in class. Ask questions, especially during her office hours. She teaches upper and lower level classes, so the sooner you can take one of her classes, the sooner you can understand how she grades. On programs, that knowledge will make/break your grade.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CMSC401
• 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:

She is better at teaching 401 than 256. Programs were difficult and TA wasn't useful. ASK questions. She WILL answer them!

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CMSC256
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Very difficult to make sense of what she is saying the majority of the time. One good thing was the format of her quizzes very easy to understand

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CMSC401
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Good on all accounts except that during lectures she can mess up the board a little and it can be a bit hard to follow. Otherwise, she makes projects easy to understand, she makes you follow standards for coding (if you don't like that, get out of CS) and she respects her students more than most teachers. She knows her stuff too.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CMSC256
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

She is one of the worst computer science teachers to have. She doesn't like when you ask her too many questions.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CS519
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Easy Teacher. Has fun with the subject. I didn't like the 2nd half of the course of specification of interfaces. That stuff was confusing. But overall nice teacher, fair grading, good explination of subject.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: CMSC355
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

helpful and happy to do whatever it takes to get you to understand the material and achieve a good final grade - wonderful lady with a great personality -- sometimes not clear enough on what she wants for an assignment

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: CMSC301
• 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:

her teaching made some of the material more difficult than it actually was...some of the quizzes were made badly and the bad computer-printed symbols threw me off on one.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: COMPSCI301
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Teaches from the book. Book makes no sense. Neither does she. Does go off on tangents that she allows students to create. Some of the material is hard some is so easy a monkey could do it...no really. This semester it was 70% of grade quiz's, 30% comprehensive final. Do well on quiz's.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CMSC301
• 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:

Talks nonstop, boring voice, thinks she's funny but nobody seems to agree. Redundant and slow to get to the point.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CMSC619
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

No Comments

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CMSC401490
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Very clear and helpful although a little boring sometimes. Recommended!

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: CMSC128
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

She is huge canvas for the Fab 5. Someone tell her that neon pink doesn't go with navy blue stockings.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CMSC256
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Very nice. Somewhat condescending. Best bet for intro to java.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: CMSC255
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

She's a really sweet person, but her teaching style is a little slow and she tends to spend way too much time on the easy stuff like definitions and not enough on practical programming. She's really nice though.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: 2CMSCS
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Im not a big fan of her teaching style. It has a rather condescending elementary school teacher air about it. Also, it seems she is more concerned with "fluff" (good variable names, comments, presentation) than substance.