he's the most unfair teacher i've ever met, lack of knowledge in C++

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This dude is a troll. He has no idea how to teach. Often during class he gets really confused and when asked questions he does not know how to answer them. His tests are killer, he copies them somewhere. AVOID this instructor at ALL COSTS.

If he knew the subject maybe he would be better but i have never seen a person who could take a simple consept that could be CLEARLY explained in 30sec take 2 classes to totally confus, obscure and intimidate his class...i doubt he could pass this class

He has no idea what the hell he talks about in the class. his notes are good as as grade 5 students. A small concpet that can be taught in 10 mins he takes a week to explain. and trust me at the end of the week, he will leave you more confused than before

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He is so mean towards late student, He is going to say sth to you without consideration. And, sonetimes he is not quite organized in his teaching, but willing to answer students' questions.

Don't waste your time and money. His teacher assistance knows more than he does and is better at teaching. He doesn't spend enough time teaching. Buy the text and learn it yourself because it would be the same as attending his class. He doesn't review before a final exam even when asked. Save yourself the frustration.

he is a terrible teacher and he does not motivate you to ask questions. buy the books and stay home and study and still you will pass the course

Worst teacher I ever had.Useless. Don't take a course with him!!

B A D. This is not a good class to take for an introduction. You NEED a good understanding to move on to more advanced comp sci courses - and he does NOT provide that - because he doesn't know how to teach. And quite frankly, how can he teach if he doesn't know himself? He will ruin your GPA, **AND** not teach anything. DOUBLE whammy.

TOTALLY USELESS PERSON. He just babbles about something for 30 mins, and sits around for the rest of the class. And that too is often wrong. Useless.who allows such people to teach. his own family prob wonder what he teaches in school. if u ask qustions, expect that he wont know a thing and will avoid it somehow. he does not know "why" or "how".

He ok. not recommend him the comments down are correct. he is esl. funny sometime

worst instructor ever, does not know the concept. terrible teacher.

very awesome teacher i ever had .

Like someone else said answers in exams have to be flawless or else he gives 0 or 1 mark, also said it is pointless calculating class average when so many students get grades close to 0.. wonder why that is.. avoid!

I had him for 2 classes, CPSC 1040 and CPSC 1050. He is definatley caring and nice and all but, in the end, I wouldn't really recommend him. Good Luck!

Old-fashioned and stubborn. Students need to use his methods to get marks, even if they're not industry standard or relevant.

the way he teaches his lectures is old school. any time you try to do something new he marks you wrong. if you ask him for help with your lab he intimates you and says something like "oh you didnt listen in my last lecture". he is extremely loud in a quiet lab. I would NOT recommend him if youre actually trying to learn something in the modern way

Seems somewhat knowledgeable but is very bad at explaining things. Very strict, no test retakes and if you're late to a test forget about it. If the only CPSC class you can fit into your schedule is with him, take CPSC next semester. Not worth it.

He is not exactly the most approachable and friendly person and his method of teaching is really old. Not worth taking the class.

His styling of teaching is very old school and all his tests are about the labs so DO THE LABS 100%. He also isn't very friendly and makes the class a lot harder than it needs to be. Not to mention, when you ask him a question he will make you sound dumb and say something like "oh, you didn't pay attention in the lecture?" etc.

The guy gets annoyed very fast. even if you have an doubt about simple things like wat is comming in exam he would never give an direct answer.

His lectures were extremely slow while skipping over lots of the actual practical implementation of the coding principles. Reading the textbook is the best move with him. If and when you have a question, his reply is almost always "read the textbook" instead of helping. You can teach yourself without tuition, find someone else if possible

quizzes are way too hard

Horrible teacher. Slow, poor communicator and low patience for questions. He made many mistakes on quizzes, had to check his marking all term. Im sure he knows CPSC, he just isn't a good teacher of it. If you have him be able to do the labs well and you should be ok, likely have to learn on your own/know it from before to do well.

Quiz is hard not because the level of difficulty but also because the time is very intensive.

worst prof i have ever had. his lectures are not informative and barely touch the material that is needed to know for the labs and quiz. labs are nothing like the lectures and quizzes are nothing like the labs. basically teaching yourself with limited material. I am a good student and always has been and this is the worst grade I have ever gotten

Not a good teacher, not accessible, didn't make his own quizzes (there were mistakes on every quiz and he basically shrugged his shoulders), midterms and finals were made 1 week before we wrote them (aka unprepared, couldn't study specific topics, didn't have accurate practice etc). Notes were just textbook clips that he read from, avoid if poss

Bijan pre records his lectures and plays them on zoom. When he does teach live, he often spends time working on a question only to realize that he was not doing the question we asked. When you ask abt the material #1 reply is: "look at the slides". All his quizzes were not his so they always had mistakes. Avoid at all costs, he doesnt care abt you.

one of the worst

Avoid this prof if you can. His lectures are very bland, he basically reads from the book. His online quizzes are full of errors and he refuses to fix them unless you ask him specifically, then he would fix the marks for you only. No list of things to learn for the final exam.

Online lectures are terrible. Cant say for his in person, but online transitioning is just bad. So many errors in his exams.

Lectures were basically just word for word reading of the slides with a large part pre-recorded and streamed through zoom. Labs were pretty interesting but had tons of mistakes in them. I found there was a great deal of self teaching. Labs were not similar to the lectures. Online transition was not good.

This was just an awful class. The lectures were extremely dry and seemed to actually teach very little most of the time. His quizzes and exams had a ton of mistakes in them that you had to email him about personally to have it fixed for you. The labs and projects gave you a false sense of security, as they were easy, but exams were horrendous.

Here's one word from me: DON'T EVER TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. The TA's grading system for lab assignments is trash, he doesn't really want to help you if you're doing awful and he's full of anger. He's just very very not professional for being a teacher. Labs are also much more than other classes and sometimes harder. Don't take him I'm warning you.

Everyone in my class just self learns, instead of listening to the lectures. Lectures usually aren't helpful, and he makes a lot of mistakes every class.

all lectures are prerecorded and they have mistakes in them, but he will mention what the mistakes were every now and then (everyone makes mistakes so its ok). but he was very rude to a lot of the students just for asking questions and its really hard to stay positive in his class. you had to learn on your own bc his lectures can be confusing.

This was probably the most annoying class I've taken by far. No one in the class knew what to do regarding his instructions as they were not clear. When you do ask him for clarification, Bijan gets angry and tells you to read the instructions again... He also refuses to go over any questions you need help with. Terrible instructor.

refuse to help, lots of labs and easily get mad

Tons of homework (> 4hours/week); broken and outdated "applets" Contentless lectures. He skips all slides and ask us to read the materials by ourselves. Optional lectures ended 45 min earlier (you might like) Hard midterm/final; problems never seen in lectures. Have to spend lots of leisure time to do revision. 1/3 students failed in the midterm!

Horrible professor. Classes were always pre-recorded lectures that were unclear and often had mistakes in them. His quizzes also often contained unclear questions that were difficult to answer. He would also often get mad during class, and bark at students who asked questions. I learned more from the TA's than him. Don't take his classes.

Bijan is very homework heavy. I attended this class in person and the lectures were not very good, after each lecture he assigns a lot of homework then expects you to know all the information provided. The exams are all open book but most of the questions on the exams are not taught and he only gives a limited amount of time to complete the exams.

If you are an international student and trying to do work with study please this request to you dont take his classes he is worst instructer of computer science

Poor speaking. He does not speak loudly.

Do not take 1050 with him! He does not teach an introductory programming language like python or java, instead, introduces the most complex language (c++). Also do not put your hand up, he will clown you and not answer your question. He reads the text from the lecture notes and does not implement his own way of teaching to motivate students.

The lectures were horrible. He tends to get mad at his students for asking certain questions and he doesn't like it when students prefer sitting in the back than the front. Bijan LOVES putting weighted questions in his quizzes and tests even though he claims he doesn't. Labs were the only way to learn and TA makes it. Assignment late? -20%

He gives very little time for the quizzes, and they were unfairly weighted. The lectures given by Bijan were poor. He would get mad at students for asking questions and he tends to make concepts a lot complicated than they actually are.

Absolutely do NOT pick Bijan, he barely teaches the content of the lecture slide, and regularly end his class 45-60 min early. He often make mistake with calculation. He will also yell at you for asking question. Best advice I can give is sit at the back and do the lab, you will have a much better time in the course.

I blieve improvment in his fluncy in english can be good

He doesn't really teach at all, he has pre-recorded online lectures from 2020 during the pandemic, and that's all that he gives to teach you. Half of those lectures is him trying to figure out what he is doing or responding to other students from 2020. The contents sometimes contradicts itself, and it's messy and not precise.

Genuinely one of the worst professors i have seen in my entire life. Almost every single example he has done on the board he did wrong and one of us had to correct him. He casually ends his class a solid hour earlier then he should, he rushes through slides barely reading them and If anyone ever asks a question he yells at them. Incredibly rude.

Don't take this professor if you're new to computer science and especially you're international student because He barely teaching and gives lots of assignments which is tougher and takes long time to solve.

His lectures are not useful. Students literally dont even show up as you can just read the powerpoints at home. He is very slow at teaching and is very very boring. Assignments and quizes are very straightforward and you can easily learn from youtube videos and from the powerpoints. If you dont show up, you could probably still past the course.