George Markowsky - University of Maine

Professor: George Markowsky
Department: Computer Science
College: University of Maine
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: COS554
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Was my first course at UMaine after 7 years of my IT career. Loved the content and the way of teaching. Be prepared for a lot of work and reading. I should have done this as the second course so then I would have prepared first. But grading is fair and if you work hard he will be good for you.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: COS235
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: Yes
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Really great professor. Very knowledgeable and very funny. He really knows his topic and makes it fun for students. Only 9 a.m class I've seen where everyone was excited to be there. He loves extra credit and curves everything so if you put in the effort, you'll pass. Non stressful, very helpful, and clear as a bell. Fabulous professor overall.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: COS125
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Difficult and very time consuming. Explains basically nothing, so be prepared to work it out on your own or ask the TAs. Tests were brutal, requiring you to hand write code with little to no reference. Lectures boring, and only sometimes worth attending. Might as well require stackoverflow as the textbook.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: COS125
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Terrible teacher, did not make anything clear, and 3 weeks before the semester ended, he realized that he had weighted all our grades. He took the weight off and dropped the entire class 20 points in their final grade. He was not helpful in bringing our grades up, and the class itself was almost impossible.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: COS125
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
George allows you to text him with questions and the ta you have for the class makes or break the class. George's class are sometimes horrible. When you do not understand something stop him and ask him to explain it. Programming is hard to teach and nobody knows how to teach it on a beginner level. Help him teach you!
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: COS125
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I have never been pushed so hard in my entire life as I have been pushed in this class. George really cares about his student's learning. Make sure to do better on the final exam than the midterm! You can do well in George's class. Just make sure to work your butt off. ASK QUESTIONS IN CLASS!, read the book, go to all the labs, and email questions.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: COS125
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.5
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I'm not a cs major, and I'm only taking this class because it counts as a math course, but Prof. Markowsky is a great! I am a true beginner, I mean TRUE beginner, and he and his TA Erik have been incredibly helpful. Some of his lectures won't make any sense to you if you're a newbie, but if you do the reading and the exercises you should be OK.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: COS550
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dr. Markowsky is a great professor who seems to genuinely care about how much his students learn. He also has an incredible amount of patience. He goes off on tangents but since he's a brilliant guy they are always very interesting. Pay attention, take notes, ask questions, do the homework, work hard on the tests and he'll give you a good grade.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: COS550
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: Yes
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I've taken George's 250,550, and 554 classes. Each of them extremely challenging. However without these classes my UMCS grad and undergrad degrees would be worthless! I learned more from George than from all other professors in the CS dept combined.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: COS554
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
One of the very best. I only hope that I will be half of the professor that he is. He does the entire computer science field a favor by getting rid of slackers that really should be pumping gas or flipping burgers instead of writeing mission critical code. keep up the good work George!
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: COS550
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
the best in the department!
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: COS250COS4XX
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Excellent instructor, fair + demanding. You will get your monies worth from his classes. Would take this instructor for ANY subject he would be willing to teach. Slackers and posers beware; you will be weeded out as you should be. He does the world a service by eliminating the unfit programmers.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: COS550
  • 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:
This guy is a good for nothing ****. I wish he would leave UMaine and that day it would be the best day in the history of UMaine - CS department. Students and other faculty memebers would breath a sigh of relief. A terrible, good for nothing professor
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: COS250
  • 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:
I was sitting in class one day and passed a stone. It hurt. But I preferred that over 250.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: COS554
  • 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:
His nonchalant attitude towards the students progress or their welfare, should easily earn him the worst professon of UMaine Award. The department would function very well, if he was not around.
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: COS550
  • 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:
This man.. wears a pink underpants to the gym and thinks he is handsome or something! Wish you would act your age.. and be more attuned to helping students and not feeding your good for nothing ego!
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: COS554
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
250 and 550 were fun compared to 554! I though 250 was fun, I thought 550 sucked at the time, but now that I'm in 554 I miss being in 550.
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: COS250
  • 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:
Easily one of the worst teachers on campus. Horrible book, lectures were completely pointless. Not helpful at all, doesn't care about the students.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: COS250
  • 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:
Extremely arrogant, expects far too much of students. his sarcasm levels very often reach offensive levels, comparing poor programmers in the class to the engineers of the space shuttle Columbia. Seems to think that students aren't taking other courses.
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: COS250
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Expect to put in 40 hrs/week average on homework. He demands a LOT, and 90% of people this this class at least twice. You just have to get on his good side, and go in ready to work. Despite all, I liked the material and he's not unfair, just very demandin
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