Dr. Lipton - Pennsylvania State University- Lehigh Valley

Professor: Dr. Lipton

Department: Computer Science

College: Pennsylvania State University- Lehigh Valley

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: IST402
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Dr. Lipton is the man. He has virtual office hours every week and responds to emails almost instantly . Took him for a Cloud computing class and passed with flying colors. Textbook is fairly boring and posting to the online discussion forum is mandatory. All around great prof.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: IST110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Dr Lipton set clear expections. As long as you put in the effort to produce quality and show you are trying, he is an easy A.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: IST220
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Best professor I've had thus far!!!!

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: IST110
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Just follow the course guidelines, rubrics he has for grading each assignment, and turn in quality work, and you should get an easy A.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: IST440W
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Frequently punctuates lessons with real life examples, which is interesting Professor is incredibly laid back and is always willing to help. Class is easy and professor is primarily interested in students learning subject. Hardest part was simply final paper, but it's easy so long as you put in a decent effort.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: IST220
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Very good humored, very assertive professor. He was always cracking jokes. His teaching style was okay and he gives out a fair amount of work, but nothing that couldn't be done. He was always willing to help anyone who comes to him and he graded fairly.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: IST220
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

This guy sucks, his lectures are comprised of reading the power points (which aren't his own) word for word. He never covers anything important. He was always late to class, which he said he wanted us to help each other with the assignments, but then says you plagiarized and fails you on that assignment. A real dumbass.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: IST220
• 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:

Dr. Lipton takes hard concepts and makes it easy

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: IST220
• 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:

Professor Lipton is OK!

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: IST220
• 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:

Interesting. He presents real world examples. He also trys to make the material interesting

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: IST220
• 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:

Excellent Instructor. He's very funny. A real Good guy

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: IST220
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

He was the best professor I ever had.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: IST220
• 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:

very lenient guy. always understands what students go through and likes to cut students a break.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: IST220
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

two words: ****

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: IST220
• 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:

although class is boring, you have to read the book to learn the material. he's not that bad of a professor, and you must work to do well. he grades mostly on effort.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: IST220
• 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:

much better at teaching networking at lehigh valley than the rest. class is easy the second time around. easy going class atmosphere. no final, but 2 difficult tests and a group project presentation

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: IST220
• 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:

No Comments

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: IST220
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

thinks he's a comedian, but i think his jokes suck almost as bad as his teaching methods. how can you expect to teach kids about networking w/o any computers in the room? never gave breaks, and class was 2 1/2 hours long. his lessons were worthless

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: IST220
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

He graded our final project presentations very easily, and enjoyed the jokes we made. There were two tests (no final!), both were extremely difficult even with studying. Hmw assignments were hard and due before he supposidly taught us with powerpoint.