David Skillicorn - Queen's University at Kingston

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David Skillicorn - Queen's University at Kingston

Professor: David Skillicorn

Department: Computer Science

College: Queen's University at Kingston

Rating # 1

Overview:

Course: CISC866
Grade Received: A+
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

All content given in narrated powerpoints. Content admittedly very good - throrough explanations on the topics. Assignments are incredibly fun and satisfying - exploring hacking . Mandatory notetaking on Puresall, a shared notebook app. That part sucks, as we don't know how it's graded. Overall enjoyable but requires constant work put into it.

Rating # 2

Overview:

Course: CISC251
Grade Received: B+
Overall Rating: 2.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

All the data analytics we do is on the platform KNIME which the prof does not teach us how to use. I basically taught myself everything. Whenever I would email to ask a question, he would be very rude about it and gave very little support. We had a big project as one of our deliverables and were given no rubric

Rating # 3

Overview:

Course: CISC251
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 2.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

I was actually fine with this course until the professor began to inject his false personal views into the material. He had an example of misleading data visualization and a few slides down he provides a graph that has the EXACT SAME FLAW as the "bad" example to promote how iphones causes teen depression.

Rating # 4

Overview:

Course: CISC873
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 2.0

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

Comment:

This course is totally a DISASTER! Prof did not teach you anything. Just a bunch of dudes without machine learning and big data backgrounds made unorganized presentations. The prof did rarely point out students' mistakes or made technical compliments. It is easily to be mislead! VERY AWFUL COURSE!

Rating # 5

Overview:

Course: CISC8EEE
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

He is the worst professor in the School of Computing. Don't select any of his courses He never cares about how much the student can learn from the course. Doing his assignments won't give any help for your exam. Not a fair course.

Rating # 6

Overview:

Course: CISC873
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

Very bad course. Prof just taught very basic normalization and svm knowledge. The rest of class are all about presentations by students. It is hard to learn from this course because some presenters obviously reported false results but prof did not care! Prof forced students to choose DL topics although himself is apparently lack of knowledge of DL.

Rating # 7

Overview:

Course: CISC873
Grade Received: A-
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 1.0

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

Comment:

This course (by David Skillicorn) was very disappointing where your grades (only based on 5 presentations) would be only graded by other participants. Students reported obvious false result but Prof did not care at all! DO NOT waste time on students without any ML background and prof who did not respect DL! You can learn nothing from the course!!!!

Rating # 8

Overview:

Course: CISC490
Grade Received: B
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Oh man does this guy suck. Probably the smartest, yet worst prof in all of computing. If you say "water" instead of H2O, for example, he'll deduct 9 out of 10 marks and tell you you don't understand the concept. Just a straight up difficult and unreasonable guy, but has potential to be the best prof. Someone get that stick outta there for him pls.

Rating # 9

Overview:

Course: CISC251
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 4.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Enjoyed going to his lectures with his good sense of humor. However, the class is composed of one large report and the exam. He gave very few instructions on how to do the assignment, then took large amounts of marks off for not following his hidden requirements. Also, didn't teach us how to use the software needed for the class. 1 KNIME LEC PLS!!

Rating # 10

Overview:

Course: CMPE333
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:

Course was composed of a single project and final. Went into final without any feedback, grades or expectation of content on final. No rubrics, expectations or standards to meet as a student. Those who ask for guidance are often met with a classic condescending response. Clearly has no interest in teaching, sucks of the life out the topic.

Rating # 11

Overview:

Course: CISC8EEE
Grade Received: A-
Overall Rating: 3.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

He's a fair enough. I was very much struggling till the midterm, then figured it out and emailed me to meet him at his office, advised me to focus on certain things. I worked 24/7 and showed him some progress, finally I got an A-. It is not defn an easy course, not for lazy students. Some people like but most don't. get ready to work.

Rating # 12

Overview:

Course: CMPE365
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:

He is a terrible prof. Doesn't seem to enjoy teaching at all and doesn't care about his students. In fact, he treats them as inferior. He has a terrible attitude and is overall pretty intolerable and hard to deal with.

Rating # 13

Overview:

Course: CISC8EEE
Grade Received: A-
Overall Rating: 3.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

It is a graduate course. Nothing will reward you unless you work really hard. It is a really a tough course and a lot of assignments and presentations. Be prepared to work hard, if you want a decent grade. I struggled until, mid of the term, then i picked it up, got A- by working very intense.

Rating # 14

Overview:

Course: CMPE365
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:

David Skillicorn lectures are confusing. He just follows his notes while attempting to translate them on the board. He makes rude comments with regards to students academic performance. A suggestion, if he is reading this, would be to create animations for conceptually difficult algorithms. Keep on algorithming LOL

Rating # 15

Overview:

Course: CISC333
Grade Received: WD
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Terrible professor who really doesn't teach anything, very theory-heavy. You're pretty much on your own to figure out the assignment and group project.

Rating # 16

Overview:

Course: CISC223
Grade Received: B+
Overall Rating: 5.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

Amazing Lectures Caring

Rating # 17

Overview:

Course: CISC101
Grade Received: A-
Overall Rating: 3.5
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

He's tough but he's also the clearest prof in all of Computing I've gotten and I'm now in second semester in 2nd year. For anyone who understands at average speed, he's perfect. He teaches clearly and at an average pace then grades you on it. He's great

Rating # 18

Overview:

Course: CISC8EEE
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 1.0
Course Difficulty: 3.0

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

Comment:

He won't give any feedback how you doing during the course. Mostly doesn't care helping students . Try to show some fancy stuff with your work even if that doesn't matter to your project or assignment , he would be happy.

Rating # 19

Overview:

Course: CISC333
Grade Received: N/A
Overall Rating: 4.5
Course Difficulty: 4.0

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

Comment:

Super interesting class, this guy really knows his stuff.

Rating # 20

Overview:

Course: CISC101
Grade Received: Not sure yet
Overall Rating: 2.0
Course Difficulty: 5.0

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

Comment:

Most insincere person ive ever met, just doesn't care about helping students. whenever you ask him a question, his answers are usually as if the answer should be obvious, even though for most people this is a completely new topic and arent sure. Do not recommend taking this course with him as the prof.

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