You can tell that he is a smart guy, but he has no idea how to teach this class. I have never looked around a room and see more students lost. He is not helpful when you ask him about quiz and test format. Overall, I was looking forward to that class but within a week hated it.

He did not use a textbook. He did not use powerpoints: all of his notes were written on the board. There were no notes on his website. So that means that you must copy EVERYTHING that he writes on the board in your notes. Very boring lecturer. Tests were difficult. Avoid.

If you have no background in CS do not take him. He teaches you nothing and come like week 6 or 7 you'll be completely lost. If you mess up one test case he destroys your grade despite having done everything else fine. Just plain avoid him.

Avoid him like the plague. He is the worst professor ever. If you have previous experience CS and have him, do a favor to everyone else who doesn't and help them. If you don't have the experience, well prepare to spend all your extra hours with a tutor.

Avoid at all costs

If you faced with the choice of either not taking a CS course or choosing this guy, I suggest you file for an unmet need and request a different section.

Horrible Teacher...Makes up words that don't even exist, such as "scientifisize." Explains concepts in ways that none of the students understand. INCREDIBLY BORING. Not willing to help students when needed, even during one on one conversations. Avoid any class with him at all cost.

Anything he teaches you is the most basic and simplest form you will ever see it. The homework and labs are about 1000 times harder. He is essentially useless. You could learn more from reading Python For Dummies.

While the other reviews paint a good picture, here is an actual exchange that does even better: (student asks question),(NH answers vaguely as usual), NH: "Now did that sorta answer your question?", Student: "sorta...?", NH: "mhmmm.....good...",(NH goes on with lecture.) You can watch him spend extra time thinking of a way to deflect your question.

Not especially challenging, but the lectures are painfully boring. Trying to count the times he says "Insofar as" makes it a little more interesting, but not much. Labs and Homeworks seemed to be graded fairly (by the SLIs) Recitations were more helpful than the lectures themselves

The guy loves Lisp and compilers, and of course, he tells us to write a compiler for some Lisp based language in CS2. The graduate students even have trouble with it and some of the professors think the project is dumb, but of course if he likes it everyone else must like it!

Too much emphasis on test and quizzes. Very little feedback on the homework. Quite lazy on changing your grades even if the grader made a mistake. His way of teaching is way too mathematical. All he does is throwing definitions on the whiteboard, and all you do is try your best to copy them done.

Homeworks are not worth the time and effort as most of it are mathematical proofs. 5% of the grade for class participation can make or break your overall grade(and you don't know about it till the end). Too much stress on understanding of notations rather than covering more topics and understanding of algorithms.

The course content is too heavy on theory and mathematical proofs rather than the practicality of design and analysis of algorithms. The course is spent learning obscure mathematical notations and proofs. The homework assignments also focus on the mathematics rather than the coding aspect of the subject.

CONS: - Uses math psuedo-code, but the symbols are in-consistent and confusing. - Most of the Syllabus is not covered in class. - Homeworks long, tedious and not related to anything covered in class. - Huge portion of the class time is wasted in writing definitions - Didn't learn anything new in the class the whole semester.

Extremely unaccommodating for online learning. Does not answer for days on end, and then gives a half-answer that does not help whatsoever. Problems in the lectures do not reflect the difficulty of homework questions at all. If you have a technical issue that causes a problem in this class, forget about emailing him about it, he will not care.

I've taken ANH in the past and boy, let me say that the COVID situation does not properly reflect his rating on this site at the moment. He absolutely displays an aptitude with the material of the course, and can even explain a question if you have it. The problem is he's never there, never present. He shows up, waits for the minute hand to strike

Worst professor I've had in my college career. Extremely smart person, literally terrible at teaching. He will not teach you anything outside of the monotonous and poorly made 45 minute videos, since that is all he has to do during these online classes. Have fun asking for help outside that...

Nope. Just nope. Writing down mathematical proofs isn't the right way to learn algorithms. Theory takes away from the beauty of algorithm design. Theory is essential, but it should go hand in hand with the practical stuff, too. For example, we never learnt why dynamic programming is used, just its mathematical formulae. Hard pass, sorry.

He doesn't let you use computers in class and he thinks that lisp is a good programming language. That should tell you a good amount about him. His lectures are completely useless and he barely ever responds to discussion posts. In lectures, he shows pseudocode that has 1-letter variables. I feel like I have become stupider by taking this class

Lectures are very low on detail and it's unclear when you need the textbook. Homework assignments are ridiculously time consuming. Don't expect a response if you email the professor, and if you get one, don't expect it to be on time or helpful.

I understand that Algorithms is a notoriously hard class, but the experience was 10x worse with Arthur teaching it. He is horrible at pacing his lectures and often skips important material to keep pace. The homework is ridiculously grindy and time consuming for no reason and will bleed into other responsibilities. Beware of Arthur at all costs.

Gave little feedback, requires Python for all assignments. Not accessible outside of class, gives unclear and verbose answers to simple question. Homeworks were inciteful and encouraged exploring new concepts and creative thought. I wish I got feedback on it.

Algorithms is overall a bad class, but Arthur somehow found a way to make it worse. The homework's are just straight up time consuming and provide little to no example of the actual content that he teaches. His quizzes can also sometimes be completely unfair in which he asks you to remember code line by line.

I had a conflict with an athletic event and an in class quiz and, even though professors are required by RIT to accommodate varsity athletic events, this professor wouldn't allow me to make up a quiz under any circumstances. We had to escalate the issue and it was an awful experience. His teaching style is also incredibly boring.

One of the "avoid at all cost" professors. He was actually better than I expected, which was not hard to do, because I felt like the material was taught alright, it just had nothing to do with test and quiz material. Claims he doesn't believe in memorization but quizzes are 1000% memorizing ridiculous formulas.

Unrealistically stingy when asking for help on homework. Will not think up a different problem and work through it with you so that you don't get a "freebie" on a homework question. You better hope you got lucky and picked the right content to study for exams as they are only 4 questions long. HALF of the final was on one specific algorithm.

Bad policies. He doesn't let the students use laptop or phone. Goes through the lecture very fast, so if you missed something on the slides, which you could've otherwise accessed through your laptop, you're out of luck. When asked a question he often gives an indirect answer and uses a pure mathematical approach to everything in this course.

Do yourself a favor and drop his class. I've had many bad CS professors in my 5 years, but none as bad as professor Arthur. His style of teaching is not only very old-fashioned, but also highly inefficient. CS261 is an already difficult course, and tackling it from a pure mathematical perspective without practicals makes it an absolute nightmare.

He does not care about his students. He does not take questions during exams (even for clarification of problems), and he says talking about the material outside of class is an act of academic dishonesty and grounds for failing the class.

A terrible overly difficult professor without a reasonable expectation for work. Lecture slides are useless outside of class and he takes his sweet time deciding to upload them to myCourses. Ridiculous amount of time spent on homework. Mostly theoretical. I'd suggest any other professor for Algo

The worst CS Professor I've ever had. Makes what should be an easy A class into a nightmare where formal proof definitions are given for simple concepts and examples are few and far between. Homework is mostly conceptual and often requires knowledge that we never learned. Thankfully quizzes are simple and taken almost work-for-word from class.

Unkind professor who does not have the capacity to convey information in a respectful or understandable way. It is as if he wants students to fail.

Absolutely shambolic! Makes little to no effort in explaining the mathematical proofs scattered all over his slides. Very few explanations provided in terms of examples. Extremely opinionated and fusses with small issues.

Takes simple concepts and makes them complicated. Killed my interest in the subjects he covered.

He is extremely inflexible, and practically bans technology (and eating for some reason) from the classroom. He micromanages and controls almost everything, and his grading is way too harsh. He makes his students buy HIS OWN bad textbook (like we are literally indirectly paying this dude). Everything seems to be "not his problem".

Under no circumstances take him, Im warning you. I know many people that went into this class wanting an A and by the end hoping for a c. He is by far the worst cs professor I've had and I would recommend you stay as far away as possible. If you do take him, good luck suffering through his lectures. Everyone In his classes hate him, me included.

Avoid at all costs. He bans tech from the classroom. Quizzes were based on memorization and he doesn't help with homework.

The worst professor that you can possibly take for a CS class or any class in this university. He is not fit to be a professor in any way. Does not care about students, offers little to no assistance on homeworks that are challenging. He should be removed from RIT or not be given a teaching role in any capacity. DO NOT TAKE HIM AT ANY COST.

Take any professor but him. Boring lectures, can't properly answer questions, homeworks are practically impossible and are never similar or even close to what quizzes or exams are like. On my soul I'd rather listen to Thick of It for an hour than go to this class.

- Hands out a packet for every chapter that he copies in class with no further explanation - Several people got accomadations denied - Had to know 'everything' for midterm, only over the last two weeks - Graded quiz on first day - No makeup for quizzes or exams, no matter the reason - Homeworks are long and convoluted that take him weeks to grade

Arthur Nunes is an extremely smart person in his element, however a terrible teacher. Poor at conveying topics, he will spend most of the period lecturing at the class in what seems to be a different language. If you end up with him, use online resources to learn the content and the TA hours, otherwise good luck. Also insanely hard homework.

Arthur Nunes might be the worst professor I took at RIT lot of my friends enrolled in his class dropped and almost half of the whole class (~120) dropped He doesn't care about his students his lectures are identitcal to handouts he give out His homework is long and often irrelavent to the exam Takes him forever to grade with useless or no feedback

Arthur Nunes is by far the worst professor I've taken at RIT, he does not care about your success, he's just there to get paid. His lecture is useless and he makes it mandatory, but everything he does in lecture is on the handout he gives. The homeworks are difficult and do not help you learn the material of the course. Avoid if possible.

DO NOT take Arthur Nunes at all costs. He will give the easiest examples in class, but for homeworks, it will be very challenging and take you hours to do. There is only one midterm and a final. First week of class, we already had a quiz to take. Also, half the class dropped out (that's ur sign).

Nunes is perhaps the worst prof you could take in the CS department that I know. I have heard legends from alumni for how notoriously awful this guy is. Homework with abstract material that teach you nothing, not even remotely helpful feedback on anything, more than half the class dropped this semester, including people I know. Avoid at all costs.

How genius can an instructor be to ask you the names of the authors of some outdated programming languages in a programming course exam? Will ask you about special data structures defined in class without any reference. Lectures are basically watching him mumbling and writing code with few explanations. No enough content on necessary concepts.

Terrible professor, nice guy somewhat. However, his feedback is horrendous and I don't think he thinks that it's possible for someone to not understand what he's teaching. Beyond convoluted notes, and the class was too scared to ask questions about what we were learning that week because they didn't know the material from 5 weeks ago.

Brutal exams with high-point questions that can sometimes be on completely obscure or irrelevant topics. Typically lectures as if everyone already knows what he's talking about, which makes it difficult to learn the abstract material he teaches. It would be easier to read Egyptian hieroglyphics than some of the starter code for the homework.

I lost 4% of my final grade from a single multiple choice question on the midterm...

A CS supervillain, an algorithm antagonist, and a proof pariah, this man has done almost everything possible to make his class unbearable. Between boring and uninformative lectures, harsh grading, and refusing to answer questions about the homework, in his book, which he makes you buy, it's no wonder that everyone dislikes him. He must be stopped.

- 8 recommended texts on the syllabus and didn't make it clear what sections he would base lectures on - Provided very little content outside of lecture - During lecture we weren't allowed to use our laptops to take notes - Lectures were hard to follow, spent too much time on language semantics - No study guide for midterm or final

rude, unhelpful, demanding, and even SOUNDS annoying. i know you, you poor, young, impressionable CS major. you want an easy time getting through this degree you half-heartedly chose? well tough luck, you'll probably take this guy three times, then want to die for each. final is FIVE questions. you'll get TWO right. NO CURVE.

Don't. Awful on every metric. Makes difficult material impossible. Condescending. Honestly take a different course first, I'm serious, never him.

Drones a lot during lectures and speaks in a very monotone voice that will make you fall asleep in class. Exams are graded on few criteria, and makes us buy his own textbooks for class.