Professor: Weiyi Meng
Department: Computer Science
College: Binghamton University (SUNY), Binghamton, NY
Rating # 1
Overview:
- Course: CS532
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: No
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Boring Lectures. He is not going to touch whiteboard in the entire semester. Slides are unclear and there are lots of homework and clumsy projects. You should avoid him if you want an interactive lecture.
Rating # 2
Overview:
- Course: CS532
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: No
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
The prof unnecessarily makes things hard by over complicating them. The same concepts could be easily explained in very few words altogether
Rating # 3
Overview:
- Course: CS375
- Grade Received: A-
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
The thing about him is that, he's very knowledgeable and one of the best researchers in his field, so he want you to study and do your homework on time, but if you dont follow him through the semester you'll fall quickly behind.
Rating # 4
Overview:
- Course: CS375
- Grade Received: A
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Meng is a little unfair about attendance, although besides losing points on your grade you'll actually fall behind very quickly. Homeworks are thorough and easily the best resource to study for tests and quizzes. Very knowledgeable and you WILL learn about many useful algorithms (and some boring ones you learned in 240)
Rating # 5
Overview:
- Course: CS375
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very difficult class. Attendance is mandatory and the lectures are boring. Exams are way too difficult and studying the lecture slides only gets you a basic understanding that doesn't help you for the test questions.
Rating # 6
Overview:
- Course: CS532
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Very Boring prof. makes you sleep in the lectures. I took DB under him, I was very enthusiastic about this course but I did not learnt a lot. Class was not much useful.
Rating # 7
Overview:
- Course: CS634
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I did not enjoyed this course at all. I had a lot of interest in Web data management but on researching the internet I found the study material to be outdated and irrelevant. I also could not understand at many times the idea professor was trying to communicate. He spoke too fast. It was an ok course. I would not recommend it to my friend.
Rating # 8
Overview:
- Course: CS432
- 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:
I loved programming on databases before the course. I was confused and felt that i had unlearned some of the good skills like design and normalization that i had taught myself. The professor's communication skills was not upto my expectation. He was fair in his grading but overall i found the class to be dull, boring and redundant.
Rating # 9
Overview:
- Course: CS432
- 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:
Just reads from slides which contains vague and very simplistic examples. The assignments are hard and will leave you wondering if he even covered or went over it. Overall the class is useless, you don't learn in the lecture and can't do the assignments. None of the subjects apply to the real world except the 5 minutes of SQL he vaguely goes over.
Rating # 10
Overview:
- Course: CS432
- 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:
He is a nice professor.
Rating # 11
Overview:
- Course: CS432
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I must say that I definately underestimated this class. Even though I put the work in from the start and spent a lot of time, the material became tricky and the exams were difficult. Overall, Meng will make you think a lot about databases and the way they work. Definately a worthwhile elective. Fair grader overall.
Rating # 12
Overview:
- Course: CS432
- 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:
Very fair teacher. I went into the class thinking it would be a push over but he managed to challenge the class and made sure we understood both sql and how a database is structured. I definitly recommend him for anyone who is willing to work and to learn.
Rating # 13
Overview:
- Course: CS432
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 4.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Good professor. Taught in a straightforward manner, and his tests were fair with the exception of a few questions on the final. He'll outright refuse to help you with homework in his office, but he's very responsive to discussion board questions and e-mails. I enjoyed the course and the projects were useful; I wouldn't mind having him again.
Rating # 14
Overview:
- Course: CS432
- 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:
Terrible lecturer, even the most interested can't keep attention. Not very helpful. Tests are hard, the average on our final was 56 and it's not cause we're slackers. Took this class to learn SQL, didn't. Course needs to be completely reworked.
Rating # 15
Overview:
- Course: CS634
- 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:
Amazing teacher. Knows the subject (Web Data Mngmt) better than anyone else. Very skilled in teaching tough topics. Supremely confident in answering doubts. Respect him very much.
Rating # 16
Overview:
- Course: CS532
- 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:
Unhelpful, boring, speaks unclearly (when 1st lecture started I thought that he is still speaking native language to his freinds), very closed. Reconsider BU if you are not Chinese and you want to get CS MS/PhD in Databases. Check the list of recent PhD that Meng supervised. Ratio is 2:1 Chinese/non-Chinese.
Rating # 17
Overview:
- Course: WEBDATA
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Bore and very unhelpful
Rating # 18
Overview:
- Course: CS532
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
easy exams. and relatively easy course too. nice guy.
Rating # 19
Overview:
- Course: CS432
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: N/A
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Smart man. Great knowledge on database systems and SQL. His projects are hard though, start workng on them early. His homework is somewhat difficult but if you try your best, you will learn a lot.
Rating # 20
Overview:
- Course: CS432
- 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:
I thought he was great. One of the best professors at Binghamton. He knows his subject and some of his homework assignments are actually fun to do.
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