dont take this course with this guy, he is horrible. too many assignments and readings. big AVOID

There is no doubt he is an enthusiastic guy, and he enjoys his discipline. However, his OS course doesn't feel like I am learning about the discipline of Operating Systems, but Anil's version of Operating Systems, whatever he feels like talking about, it's all over the place in my opinion. There was no clear course objectives; all over the place.

MAKING SUPER DIFFICULT ASSIGNMENTS AND THE LECTURES DONT HELP A LOT.

Terrible prof! Take it with someone else if you can. You will have to do all your own research as his lectures have nothing to do with the test and exams.

By far the most nonsensical and most useless class I had to take. Professor Anil's lectures are useless as neither the tutorials, assignments, or tests relate to them. The exams are vague and extremely difficult (midterm class average was in the 50s). Cherry on top, he plans on giving us interviews for exams well into our year-end breaks (Jan 7).

Horrible prof, stay away from Anil no matter what. Class is poorly ran, the midterm and final has little to do with the course content. The tutorials are worth so little yet take hours to complete. Worst professor I've had the displeasure of taking during my degree so far.

Very poorly ran class. Lectures are a complete mess and are all over the place. Midterm and exam are incredibly difficult and are based on the overly time consuming and confusing tutorials. Will be avoiding this prof in the future.

He is an absolute mess. Lectures are very confusing to follow and are clearly not planned at all. He just rambles and writes his notes on a Notepad, yet makes attendance mandatory. What's better, the mandatory tutorials often have nothing to do with what he discusses. And they are insanely time-consuming. His midterm and exam were also very hard.

His classes are extremely unstructured, it takes him an hour and a half to type on a screen and then repeat exactly what he typed, DONT TAKE HIM FOR 2406 or any classes for that matter, expects you to do everything yourself. some of his TA's are clueless. He doesnt even live in CANADA!!!!

Absolutely terrible prof. Incredibly disorganized. He writes his notes during the lecture, so be prepared to spend about half the lecture just watching him type in silence. Tutorials have NOTHING to do with the lectures, so a lot of self-study. And you still have to watch the useless lectures because his lectures quizzes are 10% of the final grade.

Lectures have no structure. He opens up a notepad on his computer and talks about anything he wants for the whole lecture. The lectures have nothing to do with the tutorials, requiring a lot of self learning for those with no experience inJavaScript. On top of all this, tutorial attendance is mandary when he himself does not live in Canada.

Prof assumes that you have expert level knowledge of JavaScript from DAY ONE, even though 99% of people taking this class don't have experience with it. Doesn't supply any proper resources for learning outside class, just says "do it yourself", and lectures are PAINFUL to watch because he doesn't talk for half of it.

tutorials are mandatory attendance and useless to even go to. cause A) TA's wont answer ANY of your questions. B) the tutorial specs are unfollowable. C) they don't even go through the tutorials, you show up to suffer for an hour and leave with participation marks. deadlines are also stupid. no js, HTML or CSS experience?dw Assignment due in 6 days

bud is the p diddy of carleton comp courses 😭 straightup gonna fail me 100%

Prof writes notes during the lecture, but then doesn't talk while typing doesn't go back over what he wrote after he types it? "You are responsible for the material on the assignments on the midterm and final. Lecture materials are to help but will cover more than is on the tutorials and assignments" Lecture 5 Notes, on his website.

Incredibly disorganized and extremely bad at explaining course material. He often cuts himself off in the middle of a sentence to type up notes during class, and expects you to already have working knowledge of JavaScript apparently. His tutorials and assignments have nothing to do with the lecture content. Don't take this guy. He haunts my dreams.

VERY TERRIBLE PROFESSOR

this guy just types on his notepad and yaps like students are proficient in javascript and HTML when he's supposed to be teaching this to us. tutorials are so unclear but necessary for participation marks. r u serious I would pick anyone over him. genuinely lost in this course bc he doesn't teach????????????? insufferable

The review below with the 4.0 is clearly a bribe. Nice try

Worst experience ever, I came to this course with hopes of learning and getting better at Frontend development, unfortunately so far I felt like my tuition is being wasted. I recommend you take the class with anybody else. He is very disorganized, assumes you are proficient with coding and doesn't explain properly. Trust me, you better run !!!

Super frustrating when he shows you lots of cool stuff, but never explains what he is doing. "yea just ssh the port as I open a VM" sir, please just explain what those are. Nope. Major skill issue by me but I feel like im watching a wizard and learning nothing :( Course is pretty disorganized so its a struggle learning w this guy

this guy wants to do the LEAST amount of work possible because he will not teach students something they will need to know for assignments and tell you to learn it yourself. he will tell you to go to tutorials if you don't understand something, but the TAs don't even know what's going on. WORST PROF I'VE EVER HAD

If you think you'll be making websites in this course... think again! There are no assignments/ projects or anything where you actually make a website yourself. The whole course is reading his code, and making changes to it. The assignments are questions about his code and you have to answer them. Probably the worst evaluation outline.

Not only is there no grading criteria for his assignments, he doesn't give feedback :D Only a breakdown of where we lost points, which then makes us interpret why we lost marks. Unless we want to go to office hours and ask the TAs why we lost the marks, in which case they can tell us that they don't know either.

I wanted to be fair by waiting to review him, but at this point the way he has been running this course seems like a parody. Assignment 1 feedback just came back. The 'feedback' is only a bunch of numbers. Assignment 2 feedback isn't back yet, and it's supposed to be back before the midterm (which is in... about 4 days at this point!) (1/...)

Tutorials are mandatory. For an online class. (He's also not in Canada at the moment, but I digress.) Some quizzes have errors. Yipee for unfairly lost marks! He threatens to have interviews with 'suspects', where if you fail the interview you'll be sent to the dean. I'm sure introverts will love that. (2/...)

Also, if you (for whatever reason) want to take this course with this teacher, make sure you have a good grasp of the technologies taught before hand. His way of teaching is centered heavily around self-study. I get it, a lot of the software development jobs will be like that, but he provides no proper notes or slides; only his lec ramblings. (3/3)

My advice: avoid at all cost

I'm Halfway into the course. He is unorganized. Doesn't provide feedback for assignments when you receive your grades back. Loves to type his notes live in a video lecture, even though he can make them beforehand and expand on the material during lecture time. Is he knowledgeable? Maybe. Can he teach? Absolutely not.

Assignments are just reading code and answering questions, really not helpful for a web development class imo. There's zero feedback on assignments and not easy to get feedback since they don't tell you who graded your assignment. And assignments are often ambiguous with points taken off for seemingly no reason. Lectures are useless as well

I learned more from external resources than his entire course. Very unorganized.

he's god awful. assignments are stupid. basically just reading his code and answering written questions about it. lectures don't teach anything really relevant to the assignments or tutorials. enforces randomized interviews to explain our assignments and midterm solutions even though he ain't teaching us anything. prepare your external resources.

Horrible professor. Mandatory tutorials with TAs that provide little assistance. Lectures follow no structure, prof types things up live, often irrelevant to the assignments. Almost no code is written during assignments, instead you interpret his code and answer questions. Prof is organizing randomized interviews to try and catch people cheating.

This guy does not teach. If you take this course, get ready to learn javascript alone during the midterm💀.

For the online midterm, if you can't type at least 100 words per minute. You are cooked

its so doomed if u get randomly audited and you stutter, get ready to be sent to the dean lmao "I'll have to send what you did to the Dean along with my observations" - Anil Somayaji course doomed too gg glhf

midterm is crazy, bro doesn't teach you anything and basically expects you to have all this different knowledge about JavaScript, HTML and SQL without even mentioning or elaborating on any of it in the actual lectures. you literally have to teach yourself all the knowledge you have with absolutely zero guide on what you should know.

He says the midterm will be similar to the assignments. But we've only had one assignment mark given back, and this mark does not come with any feedback. Regardless of if you know the content or not (which you will have to learn on your own) the midterm is nowhere near 40min long (like he says). Unless you're a robot who can type at 120wpm AVOID

As the other ratings suggest, this prof is horrible. Midterm was apparently supposed to be completed in 40 mins which is crazy since prof doesn't teach anything important or relevant. This entire course with this prof has really been disappointing. He's not even teaching actual web development just talking about parts of code. Avoid this prof

save yourself from him and take this class with a prof that actually WANTS to teach. anil does not want to teach because he just tells you to learn it yourself. we are paying him to teach nothing. be prepared to actually learn on your own.

AVOID AT ALLLLLL COSTSSSSS HE IS TERRIBLE

This dude does not care, yet is so punishing. Avoid him

Unless you already self -taught yourself web dev, get ready to fail this course.

I think hes really good at his job

I am ready to fail this class. What a disaster...

does cool things like moving deadlines up a week when they're already close to being due and randomly decides to change lecture dates

Avoid this prof at all costs, he is terrible. He does not teach anything anything helpful towards the tutorials and assignments. He expects you to be an expert in web dev, even though this is an intro course to web dev. I've learned nothing useful in this course so far. Avoid him no matter what.

genuinely the worst professor I've ever had. avoid him at all costs. doesn't care about students. he thinks we're all experts in web development whilst we're over here barely scraping by to TEACH OURSELVES with zero guidance or direction. he is terrible, don't take him. I don't think I've ever been more lost in a course than this one.

There is no clear structure of lectures, he starts off at a topic but then rambles on unrelated topics and jumps around a lot. He assumes you already understand Javascript and does not really teach it at all. Be ready to learn for yourself. I would not recommend taking him.

He's just bad.

From a scale of 1 to 10 of how good he is, he is 11!.................... Sorry I meant of how bad he is.

This is the worst prof I have ever had. His lectures are terrible, he just yaps about random nonsense that is completely unrelated to the assignments or tutorials. Instead of slides, he types in a text file during lectures, which takes a long time so half the lecture he's not even talking just typing. In summary very very bad prof

dawg runs the course like its his backyard and we pulled up begging for yap unrelated to webdev. Still waiting over a month for my midterm mark 🤡. like the other reviews say DO NOT TAKE A COURSE WITH THIS GUY

Unstructured lectures, types all in notepad and repeats it out loud, significant lack of relevent content, provides no direction. assigns r just reading code. Changes lecture and due dates, feedback is mark per question. Said midterm could be completed in 40 mins if you a good student. Copes by saying his way is different 🤡. Cant write all in here

On the midterm he gave us 1 hour to write the midterm which was a LONGER assignment. Then when we got that midterm back (a month later!) he only gives numbers no feedback and we don't have the questions so we don't know if that 1 mark he gave us is on a 1 mark question or 2 mark question. The rest of the course is like this. AVOID AT ALL COST

He might be the worst prof at Carleton. This guy spends half the lecture making the notes then another 10 minutes correcting some errors on his code and trying to debug it in class. This class is a waste of time. His marking scheme is dumb. He asks an opinion based question, when you give a valid answer, you get a 0.8/1 Avoid him at all cost

NO feedback on assessments. Lectures are USELESS and NON-RELEVANT to course material. No remorse for your grade, he will SIP IT AWAY everywhere. Assignments are only given a week however are atrociously technical. Just because you got it right, does not mean u get full marks ( answers are subjective).Midterm was cooked as it was long and no time!!!

horrible lectures

he just reads off his computer notes which he shares while doing lectures, IS NOT AN INTRODUCTORY COURSE. IMMEDEATLEY JUMPS INTO SERVER THINGS WHEN THERE ARE STUDENTS THAT DONT KNOW ABOUT BASIC JAVASCRIPT HTML OR CSS, not a good teacher at all, doesn't even live in canada take this course with someone else if possible dont waste effort on his class

not a good prof, just reads off his computer notes which he screen shares during lectures, has the weirdest assingments didn't learn anything in this course, not a very introductory friendly course immedeately jumps into server bs, most students won't even know basic html, css or js. he doesn't even live in canada, dont waste your time and money

The most poorly ran course I could've seen. Avoid this guy.

I would not say this professor is incompetent, that would be misleading. I actually believe he is sadistic and takes joy in making this class as miserable as possible for students, and at that he is truly excelling.

AVOID HIM AT ALL COSTS, save your soul please. You can literally develop illnesses from his stress

"I dont know why the reviews are bad" please are we in the same course???? His lectures had nothing to do with the turotirals and assignments. He only taught us how to understand his code and a lot of the TA's were clearly lost, bamboozled and confused

Lectures are not good. Often confused as well as lacking direction on how to actually learn concepts needed in class. The lectures would be decent for someone experienced, but for someone with no prior javascript & html experience it was a toss in the deep end.

Horrid prof. Don't take, no lecture strucutre, assignments are long and due in a week, only weighted 4%. Lectures unrelated to the material at all, I had to teach everything to myself.

I LOVE DR.AN4L

ignore every comment that isn't a rating of Awful, it literally can't be a real comment otherwise. Drop the course. take someone else. literally anyone else. the guy should straight up just be fired for being this awful.

the guy under with the 5/5 is lying lol

TRUST ME. DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS WITH ANIL. As someone passionate about the web, he made learning the materials so unstructured. His mode of teaching is for those who are already comfortable with HTML, CSS and SQL. He will also threaten to send you to the dean if your answer is "too good to be true".

DO NOT take this class if you can, He has no structure, no slides, he writes the lecture as he teaches, but he can't teach and type so there are periods of time where he isn't talking but just typing, he goes on unnecessarily long tangents that don't relate to anything in the course and then those lecture notes don't exist.

Avoid at all costs if you can. Very poor lecture structure, unhelpful & almost impossible to reach. Avoids brightspace and puts all important class information on Microsoft teams or his personal website. Also threatened "random interview" about student's finals if their marks we suspicious