Jerry Waxman - CUNY Queens College

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Jerry Waxman - CUNY Queens College

Professor: Jerry Waxman

Department: Computer Science

College: CUNY Queens College

Rating # 1

Overview:

Course: CS211
Grade Received: C+
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

The class itself is hard. He's a great guy. Not an easy A class but he has a generous curve enough for you to pass.

Rating # 2

Overview:

Course: CS211
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Do yourself a favor and don't take his class, instead do and e-permit and take it somewhere else. Most people have to retake the class a second time and the tests are incredibly difficult.

Rating # 3

Overview:

Course: CS211
Grade Received: A+
Overall Rating: 3.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Waxman was fine, and I suspect he's better in person. He's really passionate about computer science and teaches some extra stuff about what's actually going on underneath your code. HW gets kind of repetitive but it's nice to see how the same algorithm can be applied to many different problems.

Rating # 4

Overview:

Course: CS211
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Before I heard Waxman is a good professor but my experience was completly the opposite. The first material he taught is graduate-level and most of the stuff is useless. His exams are not even 50% from his lectures. Even, if you take notes, the study just as I did, you will still struggle. I recommend dropping the class instead of taking him.

Rating # 5

Overview:

Course: CS211
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: No
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Class is called "object oriented programming, but he doesn't even teach object oriented programming. This class should be renamed to an introduction to algorithms.

Rating # 6

Overview:

Course: CS211
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

First of all, this is a riddles class. Every problem set is literally some stupid algorithmic riddle. Except they're SO hard that he LITERALLY spoonfeeds you the template/code for the problem set and makes you fill in some remaining logic. The tests are literally you MEMORIZING code snippets. Awful. Hate this school

Rating # 7

Overview:

Course: CS212
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Don't take him. Though you can see people saying he gives good curves, but no use of that. His question is too hard. The materials given in the exam are not taught in the class. I did every class and did all my assignments still I did horrible in the midterm. It really makes you lose your hope. You'll suffer badly if you take him.

Rating # 8

Overview:

Course: CS211
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

If you take notes in the class, listen carefully, and completed all assignments, you don't know how to solve problems in the exam. If you don't listen to the class, you also don't know how to solve problems in the exam. So what's the point of this class. I hear he said that he doesn't like give exam. Yeah, his exam is not the exam.

Rating # 9

Overview:

Course: CSCI211
Grade Received: Not sure yet
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

The midterm is an absolute joke. He has a PhD in comedy not in computer science. Learned 0 things from him, he should be happy there is people like professor Lord is amazing and makes up for the stuff he has not taught me this semester. The midterm was completely different from the backtracking stuff he taught all semester. Never take him ever.

Rating # 10

Overview:

Course: CS211
Grade Received: Not sure yet
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

I know this is an online class and all but if I had to drive to this class in person I would purposely go 20 above the speed limit in the hopes that I would crash my car and die.

Rating # 11

Overview:

Course: CS211
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

don't take this class. the lecture is easy, but the exam is hard. You can't understand the description of the exam question. Pls, don't take this class.

Rating # 12

Overview:

Course: CS211
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Yeah... no.

Rating # 13

Overview:

Course: CSCI211
Grade Received: A-
Overall Rating: 3.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

For Credit: Yes
Textbook Used: Yes
Would Take Again: No
Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

professor Waxman is good but he took too long to explain a small concept. an online course would be as hell especially with his exams. he is too suspicious of cheating. so his exams are so long and you should explain your code. the time for the midterm wasn't enough to get enough points. you should be already good on CSCI 111 so u can pass cs211.

Rating # 14

Overview:

Course: CS211
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 3.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

This class was super hard for no reason. The professor is pretty good, he knows the material and is a decent teacher at it. But the exams will give you nightmares. There are only two exams. If you mess up one, you have one more chance to get it right. The professor makes the class super hard. And he is sarcastic, which is not a problem for me.

Rating # 15

Overview:

Course: CS211
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 2.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Waxman is a really good professor and he knows how to teach. if you take him and study every day you will definitely learn something, but I believe his tests are harder than google tests. If you get a B in his test, definitely you deserve a job at Google.

Rating # 16

Overview:

Course: CSCI211
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 2.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Beware of him online. Most students that this semester or last semester only passed because of the credit policy and his curve. His midterm and final are hard as heck. Some questions on those tests can be a project and theyre worth the most points. unnecessary rules on the the test Also he needs better TAs to grade the exam.

Rating # 17

Overview:

Course: CS211
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

They don't know how to grade. Try to not take this class online. Waxman is good at teaching but good luck getting good grades. Even if you are good at c++ they will find ways to make your life miserable by giving you a 0/40 because you have "bad code formatting" . Blackboard can't format code and they stuck with the same system that doesn't work.

Rating # 18

Overview:

Course: CSCI211
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

This class was super weed-out. Thanks god for the credit policy. Legit destroying peoples GPA here

Rating # 19

Overview:

Course: CS211
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 3.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Big curve so you'll likely pass. Required us to buy his textbook that we barely used. Sometimes complains for half the class because we're behind but doesn't realize it's because he spends half the class complaining, then gives extra material to watch to catch up. Very lenient but a bit frustrating to deal with. If you're trying to learn then meh.

Rating # 20

Overview:

Course: CS381
Grade Received: Not sure yet
Overall Rating: 3.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Grading was lenient; very thankful, esp. with COVID. Lectures take too long to get to the point so it's just confusing. The site has too many documents; they are good sources but if it's not distilled and condensed, it's too much material. The point of paying for a course is to save time by asking a pro otherwise I could just read the book.

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