This guy doesnt explain the material much, and just through you the hws. Thinks all students will cheat and claims that going to section and solve the answers with ur classmates are considering copy. Take the class if you want to be attacked and have a miserable life.

One of my least favorite professors. His slides are unclear and his lectures are dull. The lab assignments every week are hard even if you did read the book and studied the slides. He claims that everyone cheats.What is a class when students cannot work together and ask each other questions?Drop it ASAP!Beware of TA Christina Strong (no prisoners).

This professor gave multiple choice online quizzes, then based off of an open ended (much harder) in class quiz, he accused everyone who did well online of cheating. Help your classmates and it is cheating. Pretty much pay $ to learn to code on your own then get screwed by the exam even though you learned the material. This is academic hell.

Be prepared to go through hell and back. He makes fun of everything and everyone which is great but when it comes to doing the work, you are screwed. Need help? well read the manual, then read the book, then go to TA, and if that doesn't work be prepared for him to get angry at you making you feel like you're a dumb technician.

I took CMPS 111 with him, he blamed the grader for giving students high grades and always talk about his family during the lecture hours.

Professor Long should not have been allowed to teach this course. Avoid him for lower divs. Listen to the other reviewers.

This guy ruined my perception that professors are generally well-rounded, competent, kind people.

Darrell Long accused students of plagiarism for having 10% similarity in coding logic. He threatened to report a large number of us to our college provosts in order to get us expelled from our respective majors. His class was highly disorganized and frankly a stain on the UCSC Computer Science Department. He casts blame on everyone but himself.

I would not recommend the class to anyone. Write code that is similar to anyone else or code that's too clever, you are accused of cheating. Very difficult course. Be prepared to get insulted by him as well, even for good questions. Class is in C programming with him. If you don't have C exp. don't take it. You will fall behind very fast.

Actually if u are a genius of programming, this class will be good for u, because professor Long is pretty interesting in lecture. But for normal students, thats a disaster. U can't learn anything in the lecture and u have to go to lots of lab for asking questions. And the assignments are both hard and u may lose lots of points just because format

Darrell gives ridiculously difficult assignment and takes away pair programming. There are many in his class who are not cs majors and do not have time to retake the class with better professors. This class is nightmarish. His graders enjoy marking off points on assignments.

Hardest class I have taken at UCSC by far. He is a funny guy and cares about teaching his students, but if you don't have an extremely good background in Computer Science the class will be quite difficult.

I want to preface this by saying, Darrel knows what he's doing. He's a brilliant, witty guy, who really knows a computer like the back of his hand. But if there's something he's not, it's a teacher. He has consistently been the least helpful in person and on piazza, to the point where other students and google have taught me so much more than him.

Very difficult course. Would not recommend to anyone. Assignment pdfs are not clear enough and output on the pdfs are sometimes wrong. Average in the class is about a D- right now. Not sure if there will be a curve. Many students have been accused of cheating and many have withdrawn from the course. Overall horrible experience :(

This guy ruined my love for computer science. He knows his stuff, but he does not do a good job of presenting the material to us. Extremely difficult assignments, averaging over 20 hours a week minimum on the assignments alone. Labs are killer compared to other professors. Not the nicest guy either. Avoid.

Tough class. Programming assignments are 50% of your grade, about 5 assignments total. Make sure to start those early. Use piazza whenever possible as it will be your best friend. Midterm exam was very concept based and not determining the output problems. You will do much better learning from the textbook. There is no such thing as "easy" here.

He is trying his best to teach us, but it just isn't good enough. Only the very basics are covered in lecture, and the assignments require way more than what is covered. Pretty funny teacher unless it is directed at you, and sometimes goes off tangents. Was not that clear on what you had to do or turn in for the assignments.

He has no idea what he is teaching at all time. basically he lacks professionalism to an extent that I could not find a word in the dictionary to describe how much sorry I feel for him.

An absolute nightmare. To be honest, the assignments and labs are pretty interesting and you will go far if you understand everything. However, the professor will likely give you a cyclone of stress and anxiety. Condescending and very blunt towards students. A lot of people were afraid to ask questions. Easy for you to be accused of cheating, too.

Hardest class ever. Class moves way too fast. He doesn't want to answer questions he thinks you should already know like the back of your hand. He has extremely high expectations on you, but it's unclear on what he wants to see in your programs other than them working. You will do well if you reference outside sources from the class like textbook.

Did not like this class at all. Professor had cool assignments but did a horrible job at teaching/helping us at anything. Many students withdrew or gave up. Many accused of cheating and got sent to their provosts. He did not show up to class like 4 times or about 20% of the quarter. Students, including me, felt pressured and stressed to our limits.

Takes a ton of points off assignments for very minor mistakes. Allows you a page cheat sheet for the exam, but most of the class still failed. Did not clarify how a program had O(n), O(log n), etc. which was crucial to this course. Expected us to know how to solve bits like XOR and understand flags. He believed most of the class took CE12 and CE16.

The learning environment felt nonexistent. Professor refused to answer a question in class in the last week because he expected us to know it since the beginning of the quarter. Condescending to say the least. Not sure if even a quarter of the class passed. He threatened to not curve the class when someone asked about. Don't think there was one.

Lectures had almost nothing to do with the programming assignments, aside from a few concepts like bit operators. A lot of people dropped/failed the class. The class tutor was our best help, along with TAs. Would give a 0/5 if I could.

Lectures kind of jumped all over the place. Assignments and labs were excruciatingly difficult. Professor didn't go over important concepts in class, like order n, which were a big part of the tests. Programming assignments can vary in length, roughly 200-400 lines of code per assignment, labs about 100 lines of code. Hard the whole quarter.

My best advice for you is don't take him. If you really have no option, make sure that the rest of your classes have a relatively low workload and attend ALL TA sections, they are your best friend and the only reason you will somehow get through this class. I have nothing good to say about this teacher. His labs are extremely difficult so good luck

This class is extremely difficult and the teacher makes no effort to help students. There are weekly quizzes(doable), almost weekly assignments(extremely difficult after 2nd), and then a final. He makes his labs way too hard for students to handle and does not teach enough or provide enough resources for them to complete them. Go to the TA section.

Professor does not care about your grades and will not curve the class. He is scared of students abusing late policy and example code. In response, he takes off 25% for every day you are late and does not give useful example code even after the assignment is over. The TA's help a lot but he simply does not care.

This was not a good learning environment. Doing everything (reading books, going to sections) doesn't mean you will make it to the other side without developing serious mental health issues. Anything learned in the end is from the textbook not the professor. Please avoid if you don't know C programming well already, assignments are very tough!

Prof is obviously very smart and you will learn a lot from this class, but there is no mercy on grades. 25% off per day late, no curve or dropped assignments, assignments due on sundays. This class will affect your mental health. Prof also makes rude remarks to students under an alias on Discord

You will suffer in this class. It is so stressful just hoping to pass that your focus gets shifted to a passing grade over actually comprehending the material. Take it from someone who has received A's in all lower divs leading up to this course and understands the value of hard work. Don't take him, you'll regret it.

the class is very very difficult and he gives you a lot of pressure. Lectures are not bad, but people learned more from TA than the lecture. Thats why a lot of student not willing to attend to the lecture, and only attend to the TA section. Because they want to finish the lab assignment and not failing the class.

I average around 10 panic attacks per week for each assignment and am struggling to pass. I've attended every single lecture and section to date and attended TA sessions every few days. I even read and reread the entire book several times but I am still struggling very hard and this class has affected my mental health to the point of therapy.

I'm a senior, and I can promise you that this professor is the worst I've ever had at UCSC. His lectures are useless presentations and do little to give you actual useful material that can help with assignments. His assignments are unbelievably hard and take up a significant time so don't expect to balance another class with this one.

No. Just no. Please don't take this class. Take it with anyone else but him. It's not worth the time or the effort.

Rude, unprofessional, simply nothing great about Darrell.

For a true review of what Darrel Long the infamous Central Scrutinizer himself, see the ratemyprofessor page for Ethan Miller. These 2 teachers go hand in hand and might as well be the same person. Also get ready to get stalked on discord by this man.

Watch out for him on Discord. Hides behind an alias and belittles/vilifies students. I completely stopped answering questions in the server because of him.

A very smart person, but not a good professor. It's an absolute nightmare for people without years of programming experience. The class moves too fast and Long is dismissive of honest questions. I feel like the TAs were infinitely more helpful than the professor, and they are the only reason I passed this class.

Very intelligent, not very kind. His personal philosophy bolsters a lack of respect for his students. He actively chooses to maintain an unhealthy learning environment by being dismissive of those who ask for help. I wish he could see that if he were kinder, he could still create excellent coders.

I took his class in 2022. His course was the only one I ever failed, even though I later completed advanced Ivy League classes without issues and I'm working for big tech company over a year now. In my experience, he was ineffective, unkind, and I'm glad he's retired and not hurting future students anymore.