Johnny Brown - Purdue University - West Lafayette

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Johnny Brown - Purdue University - West Lafayette

Professor: Johnny Brown

Department: Mathematics

College: Purdue University - West Lafayette

Rating # 1

Overview:

Course: MA266
Grade Received: A-
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Professor Brown practically made ordinary differential equations easy. His lectures and notes were organized, thorough, and engaging, the exams were fair, and he held extra review sessions before midterm and final exams. If you go to lectures and do the homework, you'll pass easily. Probably my favorite math teacher ever.

Rating # 2

Overview:

Course: MA266
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Dr. Brown is great at teaching math and gives lots of opportunities for help!

Rating # 3

Overview:

Course: MA366
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

He is a great mathematics professor. Very engaging and passionate about what he is teaching; and it shows in each lecture. He never comes to class without a clear plan and clear set of examples for the day. Each class he had some of the highest attendance I have ever seen of a Purdue Math Class.

Rating # 4

Overview:

Course: MA366
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

He really knows the material that he is teaching and cares that his students learn from him. He presents the material in a great way and his tests are very fair.

Rating # 5

Overview:

Course: MA351
Grade Received: A-
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

This man is a god. Like others say he is very charismatic and exciting during lecture. His averages are always high which is great. Even then he still put a curve on the course somehow, which was crazy. Overall amazing Professor.

Rating # 6

Overview:

Course: MA351
Grade Received: A+
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Enjoyed going to lectures. Pay attention in class, it is super helpful for exams. The homeworks are few and not too bad. They reinforce material taught in class. Extremely fair and in my opinion, enjoyable exams.

Rating # 7

Overview:

Course: MA351
Grade Received: A+
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

He is a great lecturer and an entertaining professor -- it was always well worth attending class. For Linear, he stuck to the basics and prepared you very well for the exams with outlines and example problems. Really hope to have him again in a future class.

Rating # 8

Overview:

Course: MA265
Grade Received: B
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Johnny Brown is probably the best person employed by Purdue. Hes accessible, fair, enthusiastic and cares for his students education. Every lecture is worth attending, as his knowledge and articulation make this class much less daunting. Your entire grade rides on exams but its no problem; he wont trick you. Seriously, this guy is the best.

Rating # 9

Overview:

Course: MA351
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Enthusiastic during every single lecture, Brown keeps the class engaging while making relatively difficult content much easier to understand.

Rating # 10

Overview:

Course: MA265
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:

MA 265 is a challenging class, but Dr. Brown makes it so much easier by providing lots of useful examples. His lecture is clear and totally understandable, and he also makes study guides to prepare you for exams. Definitely one of the best math professor at Purdue!

Rating # 11

Overview:

Course: MA265
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Johnny Brown is a very clear professor, he gives at least one example per new content. After doing it once, he will skip all the intermediate steps and skip to the answer, so pay attention to the first example. He gives you a ton of extra resources for exams; practice exams, a study guide of concepts, and lists of properties concepts. Do all HW.

Rating # 12

Overview:

Course: MA266
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

He's one of the best math teachers I have had in a while. His teaching is very clear and easy to understand. He does a lot of example problems. Homework is weekly - both online and handwritten. Exams are open ended questions and multiple choice. Sometimes there are extra credit questions

Rating # 13

Overview:

Course: MA271
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

This man is an absolute legend. Absolutely made me feel at home first year of college. Super energetic, funny, and great professor. Married to math, or to a wife, either way would date him. I looked forward to this class every day because it was such a breather from the regular monotonous drone of other classes. Was a little slow but well taught :)

Rating # 14

Overview:

Course: MA27101
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Tests were fairly textbook problems, but aside from trivial arithmetic errors you would get less partial credit than you might expect. Quizzes every recitation, but the quizzes were fairly similar to homework. Similar problems get worked out right before recitation, so between paying attention and doing the homework I aced every quiz.

Rating # 15

Overview:

Course: MA271
Grade Received: A+
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Super funny and nice guy. Knows his stuff and answers questions to his best ability. As long as you go to class and do homework regularly, you'll come out with at least a B.

Rating # 16

Overview:

Course: MA271
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

Great lectures and always keeps students engaged throughout class. You can tell he really cares about his students, and he will "do everything legally possible" to help. If you pay attention, exams shouldn't be a problem. 10/10 would take again.

Rating # 17

Overview:

Course: MATH366
Grade Received: B
Overall Rating: 2.0
Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

He is a nice guy and teaches really well, agreed. But do not take him as a professor. He grades the exams brutally. Even if you got most of your work right for problems, and messed up in the end, he won't give you many points for that question. He is a really tough grader, and doesn't even respond to his e-mails.

Rating # 18

Overview:

Course: MA362
Grade Received: Not sure yet
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Dr. Brown's diff eq class is probably my favorite math class I've taken at Purdue. He makes sense of the information so well, and doing well on exams feels much more rewarding than it would in other classes for this reason. You can tell he has such a fierce passion for what he teaches.

Rating # 19

Overview:

Course: MA262
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Amazing professor. He has incredible raw ability to teach- comes up with great examples and counterexamples on the fly. So prepared for every class. Very funny. He teaches with so much enthusiasm!! Great professor doesn't make the material any less difficult you've gotta study!

Rating # 20

Overview:

Course: MA262
Grade Received: A
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Currently in Prof. Brown's MA 262 class and I've nothing but good things to say about. He has extensive knowledge in the subject he is teaching and he tries very hard to make sure that this knowledge gets passed on to his students. In fact, today, the Sunday before the Final Exam, he held an extra 2 hour help session to help his student. Take him!

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