Mark Lawford - McMaster University

Professor: Mark Lawford
Department: Software Engineering
College: McMaster University
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: 3TA4
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: No
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Absolutely horrible professor, puts minimum effort in to everything. Doesn't even bother making his own slides or explaining them. His just reads slides aloud in class. Course is organized horrendously, and there is next to no guidance in labs! Terrible, I'm not surprised considering he's responsible for Tron program at Mac.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: 4TB6
  • Grade Received: INC
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Supervising prof for Capstone. Quite frankly, can be unreasonable, and very difficult to understand what is expected in the deliverables. Seems to be inconsistent marking, feedback not usually clear. Expects class participation even for a project course, as marks are given out randomly. I've had better professors.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: 3TA4
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Horrible experience. He keeps making the class harder and harder, but can't even change the lecture slides to accommodate the development board we use in class. Also, for a person who designed Tron, he sure is bad at knowing what students know from previous classes. Avoid at all costs (avoid Tron as well).
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: SE2F03SE3DX3
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Example of cool prof. Attending his class helps a lot. Nice marking scheme. Attending all classes fetch you easy 10%. He is very young, cracks student type jokes, practical (doesn't expect his students to be einsteins) and very easy to talk to. Great Prof.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: SFWRENG2F03
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Extremely helpful and easy to understand lectures and notes. Very personable to students approaching him for help. Best prof I had going through sfwr eng 98-02. Demorgan it to death.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: SOFTENG
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Looks pretty cool to me
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: SFWR2F03
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
The only decent Software Prof ....so far!!!
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: ENG4A03
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Very helpful
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: SFWR2D4A
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Forget what u read above/below. This guy is the coolest prof coz he's like one of student and knows how to reach students, unlike most profs who only care about their own researches. Our dept promised him to give his tenure in 5 years, and 6 years later
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: SOFT2F04
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
clear at teaching, helpfull, and nice to students
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: SFWR2F4A
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
too busy writing papers, understands students
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: SFWR4A
  • 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:
One of the laziest professors around. It took months to get back the labs!
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: SFWT2F04
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
adequate teacher, doesn't set the world on fire, not as cool as you would think
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: SFWRENG2
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He knows how bad the students are, so he knows how to teach.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: 2F042D04
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: 2F04
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: SFWR2F
  • Grade Received: A+
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
cool dude
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: 4A2D2F
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: SE2F2D4
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 4.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
No Comments
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: 2D04
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: N/A
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Excellent prof all around
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