Wayne Michael Eberly - University of Calgary

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Wayne Michael Eberly - University of Calgary

Professor: Wayne Michael Eberly

Department: Computer Science

College: University of Calgary

Rating # 1

Overview:

Course: CPSC313
Grade Received: B-
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Dr. Eberly is a nice prof, He provides his own study materials. He gives lots of material but are very detailed. Assignments are hard but doable. Exams are much easier than the assignments. If you study his materials beforehand and attend all Lectures and Tutorials you will do fine. Assignments can be done in groups of 3 or alone. Form a group.

Rating # 2

Overview:

Course: CPSC313
Grade Received: A+
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Class material is very difficult but he is a very reasonable professor and has a unique personality. His emails he constantly sends out are funny but could be taken as rude. I never see the issue with the emails andbits more of a feature rather then a bug. Great guy

Rating # 3

Overview:

Course: CPSC313
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 3.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

The content of this class by nature is very difficult. If you had to choose between reading the 2 textbooks referenced or his notes, you will see his notes help a lot. Yes it is still dense & abstract, but put in the work & you will do ok or really well. His tests are hard but he gives hints if you attend. He did reverse style lecture for online.

Rating # 4

Overview:

Course: CPSC313
Grade Received: Not sure yet
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Yes, the notes are a bit dense. But that's theoretical computer science for you. If you take the time to understand the concepts, this class is not too bad. Tests are fair. The last topic (undecidability) is quite tough so be prepared.

Rating # 5

Overview:

Course: CPSC313
Grade Received: Not sure yet
Overall Rating: 3.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Eberly is a nice guy. He's generous with assignment extensions and I think he's pretty fair with marking (sometimes I think too fair). However, he is not a good teacher. His notes are incomprehensibly complicated and lectures don't help clarify anything. With the flipped learning style too, if you miss one lecture you're screwed trying to catch up

Rating # 6

Overview:

Course: CPSC313
Grade Received: B+
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Dr. Eberly is very knowledgeable, but he is the worst of all time when it comes to teaching. He can't pass this knowledge to students. 313 is a very hard class, but he makes it harder. His class time and office hours are complete waste of time. He becomes very rude very quickly. You have to take this class with him bcz U of C can't find a good prof

Rating # 7

Overview:

Course: CPSC313
Grade Received: INC
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Has a bad reputation due to his slides being insanely verbose and formal, but everything that you need to succeed is within them if you take some time to read and understand. Don't get caught up in his wordiness or his long emails; focus on the material and do the problems the way he does them in examples and you'll be fine.

Rating # 8

Overview:

Course: CPSC313
Grade Received: Not sure yet
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

He won't teach you anything. He'll just expect you to read and understand all his slides. He will also email you 3 times a day to make corrections so you need to read them.

Rating # 9

Overview:

Course: CPSC513
Grade Received: Not sure yet
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

He's notorious for being a bad prof, but I like him. It's true that his slides are very technical and verbose, but this is what I would expect from a fourth year theory course. I was surprised at how accomodating he is to students; he curved the midterm, and set up a fake midterm submission so that you can get used to submitting to gradescope.

Rating # 10

Overview:

Course: CPSC513
Grade Received: Not sure yet
Overall Rating: 2.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

If you decide to take a class with good ol' ebs, here's some tips. He's not the best lecturer as it seems like there is way too much he would like to discuss and teach the class that is needed. So make sure you go over EVERYTHING in his lecture notes, every sentence and proof is there for a reason. You will be confused if you skip over stuff

Rating # 11

Overview:

Course: CPSC331
Grade Received: A-
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Tough prof to deal with. The one good thing I will say about him is that if you put a decent amount of effort in then you will succeed. However, he is an awful lecturer, sends way too many confusing emails, and expects 6 hours a week dedicated to just lectures for his class. Avoid if possible.

Rating # 12

Overview:

Course: CPSC331
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 2.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Better than I expected, but still a pretty bad prof. Biggest problem is his inability to be concise; he uses 10x as many words as he needs, in lecture slides, live lectures, emails, everything. Assignments and tests took hours and hours. The content wasn't too difficult but the class format was. Just plow through the lecture videos, you'll survive.

Rating # 13

Overview:

Course: CPSC331
Grade Received: Not sure yet
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

The material is easy but he makes things so difficult. Dry, long and wordy lecture slides. Unorganized notes, literally have to open 5 tabs for one lecture. AVOID AT ALL COST, SAVE YOURSELF.

Rating # 14

Overview:

Course: CPSC331
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 2.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Don't like Eberly. Each lecture has about 50-90 slides of very dry and insanely verbose content. Eberly makes the course much more harder than usual to the point where I find that textbooks provide better and more concise information. But Eberly provides extensions when asked and likes to write detailed emails to students answering questions.

Rating # 15

Overview:

Course: CPSC331
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

The course itself is not hard to understand, but this prof gives massive assignments that would take days to finish and the take home test takes more than 6 hours to finish. The questions on the assignment are tough and tricky. Avoid him if possible, otherwise, good luck.

Rating # 16

Overview:

Course: CPSC331
Grade Received: B+
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

GPA Murderer and IQ destroyer

Rating # 17

Overview:

Course: CPSC313
Grade Received: Not sure yet
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Eberly is the worst prof I have had in so far in my 3+ years at UofC. Reading from the textbook would provide the same information more concisely and convey it in half the time. Lectures are confusing, constantly off-topic, complicate simple concepts and don't cover full examples. He sends novel-length emails on random side notes nearly every day.

Rating # 18

Overview:

Course: CPSC313
Grade Received: B+
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

I took his class during Spring 2019 and I would say that it is still affecting me rn as I am taking CPSC 413 in Spring 2020.

Rating # 19

Overview:

Course: CPSC331
Grade Received: A-
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Took 331 with him, quite the interesting prof I would say.... Basically his lectures are completely useless, he rambles on without pausing and has 4 lecture slides on the board making it very confusing to follow. Assignments are way harder than they should be and caused a lot of stress to finish. Dont go to class, study yourself!

Rating # 20

Overview:

Course: CPSC331
Grade Received: Not sure yet
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Takes too long to give grades back. We had mt 2weeks after we submitted assignment 1 and still didnt get back in time. submitted assignment 2 back before reading break started and still not gotten back well after term ended. He makes too many mistakes on notes is rude when u ask for help. His assignments ask super complicated math proofs. AVOID

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