Jose Macias - University of Southern California

Professor: Jose Macias

Department: TBD

College: University of Southern California

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CS565
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Assignments are either 100% success or 100% failure. Lectures are incomprehensible, and mostly tangents. Jose makes jest of grad students so much that it becomes insulting. He compensates bad teaching by grade inflation. Although I got a B+ I learned nothing, and would never consider putting this class on a resume or mention it in an interview.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CSCI565
• 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:

Good Prof.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CSCI565
• 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:

Jose is the worst teacher in the department. His lectures are incoherent, his notes are full of mistakes, he is disorganized, he forgets everything, the homeworks are a waste of time, and the exams are completely irrelevant. The projects are long and hard, but they teach you a great deal about compilers. The CS department needs to do something.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: 271
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

This guy was hella funny, just call me Jose. He was pretty easy too!

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CSCI565
• 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:

I couldn't believe there was such an awful instructor in existence. Considering the $$$ that we pay for courses at USC, you'd expect to get quality instruction. Instead we got a guy who has minimal knowledge and disclaims any responsibility for projects

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CSCI565
• 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:

Jose is a nice guy and very accessible via email, phone for questions etc. Projects are very difficult though and yes, the TA's were not too helpful. Grades on a really nice curve though

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: 565
• 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:

If you re-watch the lectures over DEN, you'll notice that he mentioned his employment due to a favor give n by someone in the department. This man is not qualified to teach this course at all. A formal complaint should be lodged with the SOE.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: CSCI565
• 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:

Guys like this shouldn't be allowed to teach. He's unintelligent and incoherent. He can't teach the course material -- he just presents it and does a pretty bad job at that.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: 565
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Nice prof to study under but does not know what is going on in the project and does not even bother to find out. Has the worst TA's that can never be found. should pay more attention to class assignments and projects.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: CSCI565
• 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:

I thought the instructor was not that bad as other comments, although it was because I am an EE student who took this CS course. Some typos do exist in his notes, but much better than you read that 2 thick books. but overall he is a nice person.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CSCI565
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

so bad......

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: 565
• 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:

good

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CS565
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Horrible Professor with an equally bad TA!! He does not know a thing and is so annoying that it kills your interent in the subject. Its a miracle he is still around!

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: CS565
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

No Comments

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CSCI565
• 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:

No Comments

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: CS565
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

No Comments

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: CSCI565
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Incompetence incarnate. The worst professor I've ever encountered. Has no expertise in compiler design, makes tons of mistakes in class and in his notes. Wastes time on irrelevant anecdotes, and blames class when his own lack of clarity is the culprit

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: CSCI271
• 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:

The most disorganized teacher I've ever had. He sends out notes in Word documents by email. The notes are full of typos and you never know what is correct or not. On top of that he spends most of the class time telling the students how stupid they are.