Thomas Payne - University of California Riverside

Professor: Thomas Payne

Department: TBD

College: University of California Riverside

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ENGR101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

This one unit class is only taught by Thomas Payne. He tests you on the years of historic computer events. He presents this class in the most boring manner. This class is supposed to prepare you for the professional industry but instead should be renamed to computer history. This 1 unit class had multiple quizzes that actually counted.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CS104
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

What a privilege to have such an outstanding professor teaching computer science.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CS014
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

His lectures does not help a lot, really hard to understand. Pop quizzes worth 30% of grade and are really tough. Be ready to study by yourself.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CS014
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

This teacher's is a joke, did not learn from went off topic in class, teaches from his confusing notes which are not helpful, AVOID THIS CLASS! If you do take him, you will have to do ALOT of your own studying, because he doesnt teach well and gives random quizzes. Very boring lecturer, the assignments are not too hard, just tedious.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CS100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

The course taken was Software Construction. Learned about many Linux systems programming. but also graded too picky on string formatting. (eg. missing a "comma" in a column would deduct 25% of that grade). Very wordy in his notes, often confuses more than helps. Need to ask for clarity on many specifications. Lecture content irrelevant to course.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CS14
• 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:

AVOID at all cost. WORST professor at the CS department! Didn't understand anything he says in class, quizzes are random. Avoid this guy.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CS100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

So the first thing is that CS100 is a useless class that Payne decided to make a requirement. I learned absolutely nothing and I'm not sure what you would ever actually say you took out of his classes. You pick up random facts on the way but the vast majority of it is useless garbage. Your grade in the class reflects nothing.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: CS012
• 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:

Has absolutely no office hours, forwards most questions to the T.A. instead. Quizs are unannounced beginning or end of class. Quiz may not be on previous lectures but lecture of that day. Will hide quiz in his sweatshirt, in the textbook, or between his stacks of notes or at the end. Talks too much about "C++ Gurus" or other miscellaneous subjects.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: CS152
• 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:

The workload was surprisingly low and the projects were pretty much copy and paste the code given. But his teaching was often just explaining how his code works that was highly ineffective. We spent so much time on ugly details on parsing which was a waste of time. And while the tests were True and False there were petty stupid trick questions.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: CS181
• 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:

The worst progessor I ever met. you won't learn anything from his class. I don't know why a professor like him are still here. No wonder He is very old but still only an associate professor.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CS152
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

I took professor Payne classes few years ago and got F’s in all of them. It was my entire fault by not going to talk to him. I took them at Irvine. What Irvine has? Better graders and TA’s. Very well organized. My advice? If you want a grade go to Irvine. If you want to learn, take professor Payne. You are going to appreciate UCR-CS later on, w

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CS152
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

I'm sure he knows what he's talking about, but he certainly cannot teach it very well. For some reason, what you learn in lectures and what you do in your programs seem miles apart from each other. You don't really apply the theories learned. Or course, I

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CS153
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

You wont learn anything from him. Most people wont pass his class the first time around. Do what most CS majors do. Take it at Irvine... It's easier.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: CS181
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Worst professor ever. Just biding time, waiting to retire. Damn tenure!

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CS152
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Stupid policies. take it from someone else.

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: CS152
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

good teacher, but negative credit on pop quizes are killer. some guy got -8 on the first quiz. thats like failing two quizzes! STRAIGHT JACKED.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: CS153
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

This was by far the hardest CS class I took. We had pop quizes and assignment basically every week. There was alot of work int he class, to keep you busy almost all the time. In the I also learned alot from his class.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: CS152
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

One of the 2 hardest CS classes ever. He's a good professor but the material itself is killer. Dont guess on multiple choice, you'll get negative credit. I'm happy with my C-. Couldve been much worse.