Only teaching matrix in the class, but require students to learn OpenGL on their own. No review session or any review material before the only exam, the past midterm was released by a tutor. Very hard homework that requires unusual workload.

There are around 200 students enrolled but only 20 attend his lecture. Contents are really boring. He didnt make the slides himself and he doesnt explain anything. We are own given the final exam score and Piazza is made inactive immediately after the final is finished. DONT TAKE HIM!

Pretty easy A; 80% of the grade is based on programming assignments which are a lot of work but doable. Only downside is that Ochoa is an awful lecturer. His slides are just copied from the LearnOpenGL website and he makes a big deal out of being a republican/trump supporter. Weird guy, unprofessional lecturer, easy class.

Avoid this instructor's classes.

If you take his class, your time would mostly be spent on taking his blackboard notes. Those notes are all in textbooks. It's hard to understand why he doesn't just make latex on slides. Maybe those writing notes would occupy most of the class time for teaching meaningful content. It's very boring and wasting time.

He isnt a good instructor, maybe knowledgeable but no much help for students. Gotta self study a lot. I dropped his course in the middle.

Tough homework and awful instructing.

See the rate, you will have a sense.

Hes a great person, which is why it pains me to write this review. You can tell he really cares about his students, but his assignments are very unclear and the quizzes are just "run this code in your head". If you already know Java, hes a fun prof. But if you dont, the PAs and tests can be immensely confusing. Id avoid if possible.

He speeds through the lectures and fails to explain a majority of the equations he introduces.

Lecture slides are sourced from the internet. Doesn't go in depth on everything. Shows essential equations but does not tell how to use it or how one should use it. Lectures are basically a series of vague descriptions taken from the first few paragraphs of the textbook Basically you're self learning from Youtube. Do not recommend at all.

You think Ben is a nice person in the first class. However, if you have anything makes him feel not right? He will use everything he can do kill you. Like sending you to Academic Integrity Office, where they said my teammate did not violate any rule. He keeps being harsh on my teammate and changed our final project language from python to C++......

This Professor can make simple things become very complicated. He was not able to explain lecture material well. For example, when he talked about PCA. He gave the derivation (SVD) and the results first. Then he defined what the data matrix is?? No idea for his logic. Also, his slides and exam are very confusing and misleading.

I would not recommend Ben to anyone. He cant explain materials clearly. Homework takes a lot of time and has basically nothing to do with exams. Take this class under him only if you absolutely have to do so. If you just want to study cv, free courses on YT are way better. BTW he closed Piazza and canvas immediately after the finals.

He expected you to just know things and was so hard. He didnt care about his students at all and was very unreasonable with his assignments. I had to neglect all my other classes for this class and barely passed

The assignments are very difficult and don't correlate to the class material whatsoever. The grading system for them is also a joke and so are the instructions for the assignments. You will find yourself sitting in Warren for 3 days straight just to finish one PA. The instructions of the PA feel like they were written in Greek and translated.

PAs do not make sense, are extremely time consuming, and lecture is no help.

He's very hard to follow during lecture, and hands out PA's that are much more difficult than the content provided during the lecture, expecting us to just know how to code.The worst part about this professor is the exams. Each question is weighed so heavily in the exam, if you don't essentially ace it, you're not getting a good grade.

He's a good person, but generally not a good professor. Too harsh on exams (too much memorization to handle). PAs just sucked most of your time and are not related to your exams. The final grade depends on a very few things. No extra credit or what so ever that could boost your grade. Take CSE11 if necessary. Guys avoid him :(

Lectures barely help, PA's are doable if you go to tutoring, tests are horrible.

The coding portion of his exam is simply too small. Most of them are computer theory questions, which are basically carried through very quickly. I understand that as a college student, self-learning is a very important part. But as a basic programming course, what makes me speechless is that I can work out the homework well but not EXAMS.

he doesn't really teach he just reads off the slides. He doesn't even write code during class, so if you're transitioning from 8A you'll have no idea how to approach problems differently compared to python. exams are very hard and they're usually about trivial things he says in class. he seems like a nice person but he's just not a good teacher.

This professor does have the competency for 8B, but truly doesn't have the ability to teach, listen to feedback, and grow. His lectures are him reading off his powerpoint (brimmed with text) of examples "he" created, but actually they are word for word identical to that of the class textbook, a textbook he tells his students that they dont need.

Professor cuts his microphone on purpose during class so only the people who are physically there get "secret" info on what is going to be on the final exam. He tells the those physically present to not tell any of the other students what he says during that time. This kind of behavior is so pathetic, unnecessary, and demotivating to otherstudents.

Avoid him if you can. For real. He is terrible.

His lectures are very boring. Out of a class of 200, only 10 people attend. Please avoid taking his class.

PAs are useless and have no correlation between the files. Quiz questions are unfair and cover small details in Java that is unnecessary for actual programming. There is a reason why students who take him have low average GPAs. I refuse to believe everyone who takes him is dumber than the other students who take CS with other professors.

Very rude to students in the Piazza and when reached out to via email. For example, I sent him an email 15 minutes before a due date with photo proof of my finished project and my tech issue, and he was extremely dismissive and condescending, and didn't allow any leniency. His class had an abnormally high fail rate, which can't be a coincidence.

Professors that relies far too much upon powerpoint presentations over programming examples and juts into concepts not covered until CSE 12. Expected an introductory class to figure out BFS, DFS, and Binary Search algorithms before learning about basic data structures. Awful professor, but more suited to upper-division classes

The quizzes in his class are short so every question weights a lot. Be prepared for a lot of learning on your own and to attend OH to get help with the PAs. He gave "secret" information about the final to the ~10 people who went to lecture in week 10 and cut off his mic for the podcast. I don't think this is professional but oh well!

The PA's were impossible to do even at the very start even with the help of the TA. In fact, a lot of experienced programmers had no idea how to do some parts of the code. He doesn't care about whether or not students succeed. To me it seems like he lacks passion for this job and he is often rude to his students. Man got anger issues.

Truly terrible professor. Lectures are difficult to follow, and no podcast. The slides are available, but they're confusing. The PAs were created by the TAs, and he barely knows them. The PAs are so bad, that so many people show up to office hours you'll have to fight to talk to the TAs. Additionally, he's condescending. Avoid him.

Removes points for no reason with no explanation. Mandatory attendance with no actual content covered.

Attendance is mandatory but doesn't actually explain things apart from what is on the slides, takes random and massive points off on homeworks for the smallest details like line length and , instructions are not very clear, test averages are horrible because the questions are on random things.

Terrible professor. 252 is poorly organized. Practice questions for final exam is a joke. The worst and most hubris lecturer I came across at SD. Avoid.

Simply reading slides during lectures and reusing old homeworks; very difficult final being unrelated to slides and lectures. Avoid him anyway!

horrible class- professor doesn't take his job seriously, reads off slides, just because he has a job as a senior director full time elsewhere. unreasonable grading, it's not a computer vision class, its more of a comp graphics class. if you are international he will be the worst challenge of career (as compared to BITS pilani)

Agree with the other 1.0 evaluations. Avoid him if you want to have fun learning and get a good grade. Especially avoid interacting with him.

1. Lectures require a lot of self reading. 2. Unnecessary strict. Deliberately stopped recording of classes to force students into coming. 3. Doesn't have strong grip on ML stuff, but conversely the classical CV is strong. 4. Grading is strict and plain wrong. TAs and prof. never admitted their mistakes. 5. 10 out of 100 didn't receive grade.

Please take his class if you are tired of boring school life.

Terribly hard tests without sufficient instructions. Homework load takes up time equal to 2-3 regular classes. Take him if you want a C or below.

Unreasonably hard midterm, he try to put contents that need a solid 3 hours to complete into a 80 minutes midterm. No one in the lab finish it. Do not take him unless you are tired of a good GPA.

Worst class of my life! I'm not new to coding with Java so I expected this class to be relatively fine. Unfortunately, I was wrong. Midterm was very, VERY difficult considering how little time we had to complete it. I sobbed for 2 hours after. Pretty sure no one finished and everyone did badly. I regret not dropping this when I had the chance.

his tests and homework are catastrophic... worst course I've ever taken. the homework seems to be easy at first, and then becomes tougher and horribly longer. It took way more time than it should, if you ever wanna get a great score in this course or it is for your major, never ever consider taking class of this prof.

This class is atrocious. Ochoa doesn't know how to structure a course for the appropriate skill level (this is intro to Java??) Homework started out easy and then progressively got more difficult-I spent 20+ hours on PA7. Looked at other professors' PA7 and they were dumb easy. Midterm was WAY too hard given the time constraint. Avoid at all costs.

Don't take this class with Ochoa, even if it hurts your schedule. The exams are way too long for the time given and feel intentionally designed to trip you up. While I do feel like I have a decent understanding of the language now, my grades do not reflect that. The later assignments take ages too, which is hurting my grades in other classes.

Horrid lectures, ridiculous amount of work for PAs and lectures. Exams were extremely tough, and the first midterm was so poor a 60 was increased to a 90. DO NOT TAKE PROF. OCHOA for such a class as it builds core concepts for UD CS courses. If you have no other choice, keep in mind the grading scheme allows for many increases and EC opportunities.

Avoid this professor if you value your sanity. The programming assignments are insanely difficult and can easily eat up 20+ hours. The midterm was a nightmare, and the final wasn't much better. This class is way too hard to be an intro class. If you want to torture yourself and have no time for other classes, go ahead and take him.

One of the worst professors at UCSD.

bad communications.

Every time I went to lecture I felt like ending it all. This guy also refused to round my 89.85% to an A- despite the other CSE11 professor doing so. If you end up taking him, drop out and just take the class next term with Cao.

Do NOT take his class. Final is unreasonably hard, Final average is 68% with no curve. Go take math 102 or 170a and math 100 before you take his class. Otherwise it is math heavy.

The worst professor at UCSD. His lectures are so boring and his voice is so monotonous. He reads off of slides and his exams are very tough. Avoid him at all costs!

Posted change in assignment on Piazza without announcing/pinning (bad communication). Monotonous tone when lecturing. Office hours at late night discouraging student to attend. Never listen to what his students suggest and assume that he's right all the time.

Egoistical. Everything is AI violation. Discuss assignments with classmates without showing code? AI violation, despite his collaboration policy stating otherwise. Wanted to discuss a paper his slides are based off? AI violation. Reading library documentation online? AI violation (Like how am I suppose to know what the function is doing otherwise).

I think the lectures do not correlate to what is on the midterms and finals. the stuff we do in lecture is much easier in comparison to what is on the test. There are no practice problems done in class that are similar to what is on the test the few practice that we do is much easier and not that helpful.

I have considerable knowledge in Java going into this course and it was still extremely tough. I recommend taking it with another professor if you want to save your sanity.

I thought he was chill and the assignments weren't bad. That was until PA4...that is when things took a turn. The instructions were so VAGUE and I was like okay, thats on me. then again, the same ISSUE. I emailed him about it and he was so passive aggressive. like bro I shouldn't be spending hours trying to decipher the instructions like a riddle.

This was a truly awful class. There's really nothing to do about it since CSE 11 is a prerequisite for everything, but the department has clearly confused the terms "Accelerated Pace" with "Ridiculous, Tedious, & Guaranteed Burnout." The class a complete drawl for anyone with legit coding experience, and the homework is ridiculous. Don't take it.

Bro is just mad. Bro will be angry at every single tiny issue including the file header and your piazza post. Homework are just insane and you are just writing thousands lines of code for each PA like a bot. Quiz before each lecture which means that you have to learn the content before learn the content. Just take the course when its not him omfg

just dont save urself

Never ever take his course if u wanna get an A.

别上，这教授逆天的很，上课讲得和考试完全不一样。考试难的一笔。谁上谁知道怎么个事儿。

He may be bad at teaching, he may be giving a lot of homework, he may enjoy making easy things redundant, but he somehow still has a job at UCSD. This shows that the job market is not as bleak as it seems if someone like Ochoa has held a job at UCSD for years.

Lecture and prof is not bad but too much homework, and it is really not easy so get ready for it.

Worst class I've taken at UCSD. Homework and exams barely relate to the lectures. The instructor gets irritated easily, even when students ask normal questions, and often argues instead of explaining. Very disrespectful attitude overall. Avoid this class if possible — truly exhausting experience.

This class will be difficult unless you already know java. The PAs are not enough practice to help you with the exams. He teaches a lot of theory but actual coding practice was insufficient. The pre lecture quizzes were all MCQs. He also had prelecture videos to watch and just repeated everything in lecture.

If you take his 252A, expect final exam to take 40% of total grade while it tests all the minor details showed up on corners of his twenty 100-page slides, the real final exam way harder than the sample exam which is simply there to confuse you on the actual difficulty, lots of classic CV instead of ML, long time spent on hw that does not help exam

This class was just way too much. It tries to cover an insane amount of material to a very superficial level. I had to rewatch lectures 2 to 3 times just to have a semblance of what was going on at a high level. Unfortunately, the 40% final expected you to recollect dozens of arbitrary formulas rather than focus on understanding.