This guy cant transfer his knowledge to students and he is confused when he is lecturing. I don't know why SJSU computer department choose him for this important course.

What a joke of a class. Cant understand a word he says and constantly goes in loops while lecturing. Tons of mistakes in HW and notes. Has a Lab+HW due every week, even during midterms. All his homework is copy and pasted from god knows where because non of it makes sense. Worst teacher+class Ive taken in SJSU by a mile.

This guy is ridiculous..

Incoherent lectures, no real order of teaching, just reads off slides, and makes mistakes while reading off slides. Doesn't teach you how to do anything, just expects you to know. Every homework and lab has countless mistakes that are fixed by students. Complete joke of a class. Only take this class if you already know how to do everything.

Every single lecture is an unorganized mess of him trying to convey the broadest of concepts in broken english. He is not able to demonstrate his understanding of the subject matter clearly at all. I have no idea how he got into SJSU CS department. 2 semester projects, weekly HWs and pop quizzes, 3 exams. Every lecture feels unprepared with errors.

Professor Tsao is the worst professor I have come across in San Jose State. I have no idea how he got a position in the department. Every lecture is him reading off slides and every HW assignment/quiz had mistakes on almost every question. Expect to learn nothing from him and to self-study everything. Don't make the same mistake I did!

Horrible professor. Took him for CS 146 and 147. I should've learned my lesson the first time around.

Worst professor Ive ever had (not by choice) and its not even close. Lectures are a mess, fails to answer questions that students ask because he cant elaborate, 23 quizzes, 100pt homework due every week (even during midterms and finals), 2 MIPS projects, changes answer keys for hw/quizzes because WE had to correct his mistakes he made. BEWARE.

Doesn't seem to care AT ALL about teaching... Just mutters through the course material. Makes a lot of mistakes throughout his lectures.

I cant speak for his other classes, but he does NOT know enough of Python to be teaching any Python class let alone ADVANCED Python. He literally has been confused about how to create getters and setters and how to clear dictionaries. What a joke and a waste of my time and money.

Doesn't know a thing about teaching or what he's teaching. Makes mistakes on quizzes, tests, etc. But the class is easily passable, as long as you do all the homework and discuss lectures with classmates. Wouldn't recommend him but if nobody is better at least you'll pass. You will not learn through unless you self-learn it all.

Absolute worst professor ever. Mumbles through lectures, HEAVY accent, has little to no concept of what he is teaching and assigns a pop quiz every lecture. There is also one large lab every week, sloppy mistakes on midterms, not a single person attended the last lecture of the semester lol. Do not take his class.

His accent is very horrible that during his lecture, I cant understand some points of his lecture. The lecture is some kind of straightforward, but you must take your time to understand it clearly. And he always makes mistakes during his lectures and even in midterms and FINAL! However, he always gives the extra work to curve the class's grades.

Professor Tsao isn't a bad person, but he does make you question why he teaches at all. He inspires virtually no interest in the topics he teaches, and his lectures don't make much sense. DEFINITELY make sure to communicate with classmates; it will save you, your grade, and your life. Shame that an interesting subject like this is taught so poorly.

The course is very assignment heavy. There is almost a pop quiz due every day. His lectures are not that great, he forces students to attend by taking attendance in every class. Most of the time I cannot hear or understand what the professor is saying in class. Not recommended.

Dude is really hard to understand. Heavy accent, just mumbles to himself during lectures. Instructions often have spelling and grammar errors, HW Submission is really strict. If the timer is one minute over, you get a 0. Be ready to google everything yourself and be bored during class. HW assignments are easy though. Avoid taking

He mumbles to himself in class, you won't learn anything from attending the mandatory classes for which you will be penalized if you don't attend. You will have multiple pop quizzes every day and homeworks every week. The midterm exam will be extremely long and difficult, of which there will be 2 by the way, and final will be toughest of all. AVOID

Keep mumbling. Hard to understand what he wants to say. Not sure why he became an instructor to teach people if he does not have the skill to teach.

Absolute nightmare to communicate with in emails and tough to understand in class. You can be super polite in emails to him asking for help but he often takes a really long time actually answering your initial question and then leads you on a wild goose chase wasting a ton of time and asking way more stuff before he actually answers.

Mumbles from start to finish, attendance is graded, and 1-3 pop quizzes after each lecture. Some days, we had pop quizzes, HW, and a lab due on the same day on topics we had just covered that week. If you email him with 1-3 questions, he will only answer one at most. Why is he the only instructor teaching CS 147 for an entire year now!?

Terrible professor, I am quite surprised that he still allowed to even teach a class at SJSU. Lectures are hard to understand due him mumbling, slides are not helpful and tests are very different than homework. Homework itself takes 5+ hours to complete and is due within a week.

In general extremely rude and angry when you're confused by him. I survived this class by watching YT but no one learns anything from his lectures. Lectures are mandatory w/ camera on, he has pop quizzes, mistakes in quizzes, etc.

Professor mumbles through lectures which are unclear and often contain errors. Several pop quizzes (1-2 per day) and homework quizzes that can take 1+ hours to complete and cover information not present in the lectures. Projects are fun, but are challenging since they use info not in the lectures. Tests are easy and mostly follow quiz format.

I can't believe I have to rate this professor again. Attendance required online class where he just mumbles on slides with incoherent scribbling and text. TONS of homework, answers on quizzes/midterm reviews aren't even right sometimes, doesn't teach you to use the software for projects. Take a summer course or a diff professor if possible.

You will get more out of this class by doing the ZyBook homeworks, watching yt vids.. anything else. He does not teach well; he reads off slides and is not engaging with the content. Labs every week are chill. Midterms are alright, make sure to do the practice ones beforehand. Shouldn't be a hard class with a decent Java understanding.

Pros-offers SOME extra credit, pushes SOME due dates back Cons- unintelligible lectures (we go too fast without any depth so all your learning will need to come from self study on DIFFICULT material for CS 147), dodges questions, swamped with HW/quizzes, lectures do not prepare you for the 3 tests, plz take someone else

He gives lots of HW and quizzes, about 60 of them total, and 2 big projects. Class is super time-consuming and the professor is terrible at lecturing. Gave out WRONG answers for practice midterm. Nice guy and reachable outside of class. But your classmates are better at teaching than professor.

Mumbles quietly to himself while looking down at his laptop during long lectures. Formatting of answers on quizzes are wholly unclear. Slides are contextless amalgams of stuff just sort of 'happening' without any explanation. Clearly has no idea what he's doing and was unable to find a real job. Shame on SJSU for hiring him.

You're better off skipping lectures and just watching YouTube tutorials and doing the homework. The lab instructors are very good in my experience.

Bad at teaching. His lectures are barely audible and boring. Most of what you learn will be covered in the textbook (ZyBooks), which will be your weekly HW. There's also a quiz at the end of every class. His tests are manageable, but there are at least 3 or 4 typos in each one. Labs are difficult, but will actually teach you things

He was going over one of our assignments and then got stuck.. then gave up and just told us to input it in our IDE to get the answer. He doesn't even know the answers to what he's teaching. SJSU do better and hire better professors.

Prof. Tsao has been among the worst professors I've had the pleasure of taking. He is kind, responds to emails quickly, and generously offers extra credit. However, his lectures are disorganized. He skims over key concepts and often makes mistakes in quizzes and midterms. You will learn more through self-studying.

Does not reply to emails at all.

lets have a petition to send this dude to learn how to speak english before lecturing

DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS, YOULL THANK ME LATER

don't expect to learn anything from this lecturer, read off his slides in every single lecture class. and dude love scribbling his ppt idk why

Very disorganized and unhelpful. He only reads directly from his PowerPoint slides during lectures without any further explanation or real-world examples. The class feels more like reading on your own than actually being taught. Would not recommend if you want to truly understand the material.

the lectures are not engaging or helpful. He reads from his slides without further elaboration, making it hard to understand the material or stay focused.

The lectures were hard to follow because he only went through slides without elaborating. Would've appreciated more examples or explanations instead of just reading word for word.

Feels like I could've just stayed home and read the slides myself. No clarification, no deeper teaching, just reading along. Definitely not worth the time.

dont take it, he dont know how to teach

The professor needs to improve lecture engagement. Reading slides word-for-word isn't helpful for understanding complex material. More real examples and explanations would go a long way.

Literally just reads the slides. No explanation, no interaction, no structure. I learned more from YouTube than from this class.

Lectures were very unorganized and repetitive. The professor seemed unprepared most days and only followed the slides without elaboration. The class lacked depth and engagement.

I was really hoping to learn, but this class was a disappointment. The professor just reads from slides and doesn't explain concepts clearly. Ended up self-studying most of the time.

No teaching, just reading. If you want to learn, prepare to teach yourself.

The course delivery lacked structure and depth. Lectures consisted primarily of reading slides verbatim with minimal elaboration, making it difficult to grasp key concepts.

Lectures are just the professor reading slides verbatim. No explanations or examples, you're expected to learn everything on your own.

He only reads PowerPoint slides out loud. There's no deeper teaching or clarification when topics get complicated.

Class felt like a slide-reading session. No discussion, no elaboration, and no real help understanding the material.

If you want someone to explain concepts, don't take this class. The professor simply reads the slides and moves on.

Very disappointing. Lectures are just slide narration no examples, no real-world context, no engagement.

The professor follows slides word-for-word and never expands on key points. Hard to learn anything from lecture.

this dude has no idea what he's doing

Reading slides doesn't count as teaching. Expect to self-study everything if you enroll here.

No elaboration beyond the slides. Midterm questions is totally IRRELEVANT with his slides, felt like wasted class time.

Reading Off Slides = Lecture. That's it. No explanation for difficult topics and minimal interaction with students.

The course is poorly delivered, lectures are just slide recitals. Tests require understanding not covered in class.

He literally reads the PowerPoints. If you need concrete examples or step-by-step explanations, look elsewhere.

Very low engagement. The professor reads slides and doesn't connect ideas or show how to apply concepts.

This dude makes the course harder than building a pyramid

this lecturer is lowering SJSU's standard

its a shame to have him teaching such important subjects. he do not speak clear english.

he got a 1. something rmp rating for a reason

If an educator's true intention is to serve the best interests of their students, this person should resign and never again step into the field of education. He is a disgrace to our education system.

he dk what he's doing in class, he even got the wrong answer for his own quiz

he is the lowest rating sjsu lecturer ive seen in rmp. not only low in rating, but also lecturing quality

an amigo can speak better english than him

he can't speak english? he's nice tho but yeah

devil incarnate

dropped his class. was so horrible at teaching that everyone was behind compared to the class we would do labs with. don't even bother taking this class unless u wanna teach urself everything

This dude should resign as a lecturer and go work at a restaurant

His lectures are boring and useless. He just reads off the slides and doesn't know what he's talking about. His accent makes it hard to understand what he's saying. Just go to his lectures for the quiz access codes, or if ur lazy to go, just find a friend who attends class for the quizzes. Get ready to learn by yourself.

Mandatory $99 zybooks, unhelpful lectures, and super unhelpful lab assistants (though you might get lucky). Memorization is your only hope.

Professor Tsao is not the best at articulating what he wants to teach, although he knows the material well. He doesn't know how to adapt to students to teach them and he reads off slides most of the time. Be wary in taking his courses unless you have prior programming knowledge.

dont waste your time, not worth it

dont take at all unless u wanna ruin ur gpa and be stressed the entire semester.

He's not great at teaching because he just reads from the slides and it's a little hard to understand him. His midterms are very specific but pretty similar to the practice exams and past quizzes, so just study those. You probably have to study the zybooks/other resources in order to learn a lot. Fast grader

he knows the content :) also gives quiz answers, but if i had to list the sheer amount of things that Professor Tsao would have to do make this class bearable, I would need another month to write this rating. if i continue to rate him my blood pressure will spike even than my attempts to understand the mentally gymnastic way that he teaches.

Do NOT take him as your prof. He doesn't teach well. I learned this subject by MYSELF! And the attendance isn't mandatory BUT there's a quiz everyday so if you don't come to the class then you wont be able to take the quiz because of the access code. He just yaps a lot and you cant understand what he is speaking because of his accent.

horrible. DONT TAKE HIM IF UR SMART ABOUT GETTING GOOD GRADES

dont take at all

Gives us a mock exam for the final which was Nothing like the actual final. complete curveball with questions we have never seen before. No partial credit on coding problems. Does not curve. If you want to pass do not take this CLASS.

don't take this dude, you will learn nothing. your only grace will be self studying and nice lab instructors. barely explains any of the actual code, only concepts and throws you off the deep end. average on the final was a 62%. doesn't curve, final was nothing like the mock final either. you will learn nothing from him

save yourself. ok but seriously he's a nice professor but he doesn't know how to teach. reads off slides with spelling errors, always a canvas error on almost every assignment, and attendance is pretty much mandatory as you need access codes to do check in quizzes. labs are annoying. practice midterms/finals are nothing like actual exam. good luck!

Worst professor I've taken at SJSU so far. This class is going to be ALL self studying for you, as his lectures are incoherent yet there is mandatory attendance. Choose another professor if you actually want to learn the material or get an A.

Nice guy but that doesnt mean he is a good professor. Hard to understand. Slides are vague and does not go into depth about what we are learning. Labs instructors are nice and understanding. Does not curve and does not set you up to succeed his class. Best chance of passing is teaching yourself.

don't do it. refuses to curve midterm and final, mock exams are nothing like real ones. barely teaches, speaks with a heavy accent, and is just as confused as you are whenever you ask a question about anything. the amount of times i had to email him about something on canvas not working was ridiculous for a cs professor

i don't know how he is allowed to teach. his lectures are unclear and his tests are super hard. you won't learn anything. avoid!

Has an accent and reads off slides so his lectures aren't great Daily quizzes but are doable His tests are based on his daily quiz questions and the slides so study those before exams. Lab is easy and gives EC. I had an A until the final bc his mock exam didn't prepare me. Lab exams are annoying due to unclear criteria so look over slides for code

He just reads off of slides that aren't even his. I learned more from my friends and the reading than him because of how hard it is to understand him.

Please do not take this professor if you are smart. This professor is not good at all.

THE WORST PROFESSOR EVER! HE'S SO BAD AT TEACHING AND HE DON'T EVEN CURVE EXAMS.

Do not take this class with this guy.