Shaun-Inn Wu - California State University San Marcos

Professor: Shaun-Inn Wu

Department: Computer Science

College: California State University San Marcos

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CIS444
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

This is the most unprofessional professor I have ever had. He is the perfect example why tenure is not a good thing for our education. He shows up to class late and reads off his PowerPoints almost word for word. If you ask a question, he only confuses you more. He marks points off assignments for no reason even if you follow directions 100%.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CIS444
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

By far, the most frustrating professor. I understand that web programming is not too difficult, but I feel Dr. Wuu makes it so. Never replies to emails, he reads them for sure. Creates assignments very last minute without any email notification. assigns work, when the student workspace has not been created, even emailed with no replies.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CIS444
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Hes an alright professor. He isnt as bad as people describe him to be. Just do your work and you should be good.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CS513
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Professor Wu makes no secret of the fact that this is a masters level course and in order to do well, you will have to do some work and research on your own. Show up to class and do your homework--this class is not easy, but you will learn a lot!

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CS111
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 3.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Personally, I think he does decent job at teaching. He is a lecture teacher. What it does is introducing and "generally" explaining the concepts. The code examples all are in textbook. You need to read it to understand. Writing example code is for the lab instructor instead. Don't blame him for your laziness.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CS111
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Don't take this professor. His class is boring, and poorly paced. He seems to gloss over any confusing concepts, and repeatedly go over the most obvious stuff. He isn't even knowledgable about the subject matter: He pronounces C++ as 'C increment', and teaches the class to do the same. It is not. You will not learn anything in his class.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CS111
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Swim Away, Swim Away! CS Majors and Requirement Fillers Beware! Worst professorteacher I have ever met in my life! Lab professor saved us but hardly learnt anything at all.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: CS111
• Grade Received: C
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

I would try to take another teacher if you have the chance. You might get turned off with the major if you take this course. Not much examples on how to code more so quizzing you on what you read. Was a very demanding class. If your new to programming take another teacher. If you already have a coding background then you will be fine.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: CS111
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

The guy is a smart and all, but he is just an awful teacher. He does not teach the material, only goes over theoretically and random points of the book. Does he actually show himself typing coding and showing how each line work? No. He might answer questions, but only very specific questions and you have to know what you're talking about.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: 351
• Grade Received: INC
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

He has a horrible, impenetrable accent, and reacts mockingly when noone in the class understands him. If he wasn't the only teacher on campus who taught this class, I would not have been in it. You're honestly better off talking with the other students during the lecture than asking the teacher questions.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: 351
• Grade Received: A-
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Incredibly boring, just reads from his slides. There is a slight language barrier making asking questions a chore. He does curve his tests a LOT though, turning 30% into 70% is not unusual. Do all of the homework well and you'll pass this class.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CS351
• 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:

Worst professor in the CS department. In class, all he does is read from a PowerPoint that is based on the book. There is no doubt that he is really smart, but it's like he expects his student to understand just about as much as he does. There are 10 HW assignments, a midterm, and a final. Good luck with this one.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CS351
• 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: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Super boring, spends all of class just going over ppt slides rehashing textbook content, very little outside perspective. Exams are ridiculously hard, resulting in a huge curve. Also very misleading about what will actually be on the test. Focuses too much on ADA, Prolog and LISP, tends to gloss over C/C++/C# & Java. Textbook HW is confusing.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: CS351
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

One homework assignment per week, very easy. Only two tests: midterm and final. Allowed a cheat sheet. All lectures were taught off of a dense, 50+ slide powerpoint outlined from the book, so it was dreadfully boring each class. Observed that he gives a bit of a negative, condescending response when asked questions or when expecting class feedback.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CS513
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Spend several weeks talking about NP complete, computation complexity, way beyond the book, that no one understand. Jump to theory of NP complete problems right away without examples. Handouts have very small characters, hard to read. Lectures are hard to follow. No time for many important chapters. Expect students to teach and give lectures.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: CS111
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Didn't learn anything! ended up losing interest half way through the semester and played online poker vs other students in the class. very bad professor

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: CS111
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

WORST TEACHER ALIVE! His teaching style blows, his tests are ambiguous, and can't explain anything to the class. Hope you love reading and being lost in class...

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: CS111
• 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:

Not helpful at all. Plan on learning everything from the book.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: CS111
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Horrible Professor. The worst. "Lectures" are reading off PPT slides. Never prepared for class. You'll fall asleep in class. Learned nothing all semester. Prof. Slott (Lab) saved us and my grade. His tests are outrageous, lab portion and hw evens out bad tests, so no need to worry. Be prepared to spend more than 3 hours in lab on Friday.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: CIS4901
• 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:

Wu is very hands-off in this class, much more so than any others that he teaches. However, because Project management is basically a semester-long group project, this should be expected. He provides pretty good feedback when you ask for it, so as long as you don't live in a vacuum, you'll be fine.