Horrible, mean professor. His project always has numerous typoes and it is hard to understand what he means. He changed his project requirements by replying to students posts on piazza without any official notifications. There is no grade has been released before the second week from the last. Everything is chaotic avoid him!!!

Not very experienced. Seems to care but more walk than talk. Horrible for the full quarter course, imagine how summer session went? Has no understanding of how to teach nor structure the course. Gave the last two labs in the last two weeks of the course along with the final. There were always bugs in the labs. Lazy, inconsiderate and should stop.

Steer away from this professor, one of the worst I've taken at UC Davis. The most bothersome thing about his class is that you need to pass the final to pass the class despite the weight of the quizzes already being 65% EVERY WEEK. Makes it so you HAVE to allocate your time during the finals studying for this class when you already have an A.

The final is worth 25% of your grade, but if you don't pass it you fail the class. You can have 100% in the class but get a D on the final and still fail the whole class. Super unnecessary policy that adds an insane amount of stress on students for no reason.

Horrible policy that you must pass the final in order to pass the class despite the final already being 25% of the final grade. I don't even think a class has used this policy in several years, and the final was incredibly rigorous.

One month in and I am disappointed, extremely disappointed. This class being disorganized is an understatement. Lectures are extremely hard to follow, so much so that it's debatable whether they are worth attending.

I cannot stress how terrible this class is. First, lectures are basically useless and you honestly get more out of just brute forcing through the labs with the knowledge you have. No structure to his class and doesn't seem inclined to help students. You get ten minutes in office hrs which are 1 on 1. Labs take forever to do. TLDR: Don't take it.

I never truly felt like I was going to fail a class until I took Posnett.

The lab is extremely heavy. There are 3 LABS in total, and each lab is completed within 3 weeks with at least 20 pages. His lecture is just a summary textbook. It has nothing to do with the lab, which means you put a lot of effort into the lab, and the exam is a different model. He may be very capable, but as a teacher, he is insulting professio

Posnett is the worst professor I have had in college. His lecture is useless even he tried just go over tight with the textbook. Read and learn by yourself. His wording in labs makes nonsense and takes forever to finish. Very brutal with his policy. We do not get midterm grade in the final week. Not sure if half of the class might fail.

please do yourself a favor and take care of your mental health by taking this class with someone else. he can't teach and expects a lot from his students. there are 3 labs that total up to 25% of your grade but they're extremely heavy. the rest of the 75% are exams. it's finals week and he still has not released our midterm scores from a month ago.

Please do not take this professor. Just wait a quarter to start the series if necessary. This class has destroyed my self confidence and mental well-being. I've never been so stressed by a class. The actual material is not hard but the class is structured to inflict pain.

Worst prof every. Super long homeworks and labs, difficult tests, speeding through lecture slides from textbook and read off of them. He doesn't fulfill his own deadlines for grading, so we had no idea where we stood in the class until like 3 days before the final. Showed up almost 30 min late to final. Seems to only care about himself. Avoid him

this isn't a problem for his youtube videos and online lectures (although he doesn't provide that many), in person lectures his voice really distracted me. he doesn't seem to plan and rushes through slides as a result, all this makes it really hard for me to focus. when he cancelled class students were only alerted via Canvas 10 minutes before.

Deep down he seems like a nice guy, cares about the subject, but does not teach well nor respect students time. The lectures are worthless as they are just slides, the labs are not hard but are very long. Midterm was unfair and long. The final was decently fair. Overall an interesting guy, with an unstructured class. I would not recommend him.

He seemed out of touch with the class. The exams were reasonable but you will go into the final not knowing 75% of your grade. This means U will not have the chance to drop,select p/np,or register to retake the class if you are indeed doing poorly. Not sure why the prof assigns such large labs when he cant even keep up with the grading.

He assigns some really big projects and then takes forever to grade them. Meaning you can go into the final and only have one or two assignments graded that are worth less than 25 percent of your grade. Also he is very hard to access during office hours. He would offer only one a week for an hour in a class of over a hundred students. Dont take.

He seems overwhelmed when students approach him in office hours, he wasn't very approachable or accessible but instead very rude and would make snarky and pretentious comments. The class is incredibly fast paced and overly demanding, for an A it will be the only thing your life consists of that quarter.

This was the most stressful class I've taken at UC Davis so far. His lectures are not helpful at all and you are better off reading the textbook.

Terrible lectures and extremely disorganized. Wait for another prof seriously; labs had problems discussed in class literal the day before it was due. If u have a sense of self respect do not take this class. Mostly self study with working on the labs which have no clear criteria. Doesn't respect ur effort or ur time. Makes fun of students for work

This didn't feel like a 4 unit course, due to the way that it was taught. The labs were very time consuming, and when students complained, the professor just asked us why did we spend so much time on them. Lectures were bad, only way to learn is the book. The exams are hard, and they account for 75% of final grade. Don't take, not worth the stress.

affects your mental stability. don not care about students AT ALL. Drops a 68 pages slides on new materials 4 days before final. really think about it before taking this professor

Lectures were confusing and unorganized. most of them werent recorded and he refused to post the ones he did. So good luck if you get sick, not like youre missing anything anyways. Labs take many hours to piece together and understand. Just read the book. Take this prof if you have experience with 154 topics or prepare to suffer.

He is going very fast, his homework and exams are super hard and confusing.

Please kindly take Posnett if you dont value your mental health. He assigned extremely time consuming labs, and mocked students for putting in the effort and bringing up the length, asking why we put in that much work if we felt like it wasnt worth that much. He is constantly late but has a 2% per hour penalty for late assignments. No flexibility.

Posnett was strict and unfair to his student in ECS 154A. He grade weight is 25% for labs and 75% exams where midterm is 30% and final is 45%, yet we need to work really hard on the lab more than you would in a writing project. He says the lab is meant to prep us on the exams, but when you are stuck he is not helpful, so you would fail the class.

Very hard to reach for questions and if you do he is often very rude about it the whole thing. Also, his lectures are confusing and all over the place. He is very strict with deadlines and doesn't care to be lenient however he is always late for things himself and doesn't care.

Don't choose this teacher. Believe me, he's the worst teacher I've ever had

I would rather mop the ocean floor than take Posnett again. I received As in all my CS classes at Davis for the past two years until taking him. I didn't even pass his class. If that doesn't say something about how horrible of a professor he is, I don't know what else to tell you. Avoid him at all costs.

In addition to labs being extremely time consuming, they are confusing as well as hard to read because of his watermark over all class material and use of a tiny font. Oh, and don't forget the 20 page lab reports. Do you want to ask for help? He'll ridicule you for not understanding the instructions and material while he can't teach well at all.

If you're thinking about taking 154A with Posnett, DON'T. Retaking this class with Butner has been the biggest difference I've ever seen in teaching. Posnett reads off the default book slides, gives insanely long labs, and requires extremely detailed lab reports. Even if you are good at self-studying, his labs will be the factor that pull you down.

I can't speak for the quality of his lectures for 160, but for 154A, these lectures were the worst I have experienced at this school. He did curve, but only after being uncertain the entire quarter and telling us not to expect one. Midterm grades didn't come out until finals week. Many people had to retake the class. Lab reports will kill you.

While I didn't have as much of a bad time as other people, I still believe that this professor is not up to par compared to other professors at UC Davis. Posnett grades very heavily on exams, with Labs and HW falling behind in weight. HOWEVER, the labs will more than likely take more time than studying for exams.

To be fair, Posnett's exams are doable (80% of your grade) if you spend a considerable chunk of time studying. His labs took plenty of time as well, and they required a long and comprehensive write-up. My advice for those who unfortunately have to take this course with him is to take 12 units and spend almost all of their time on this course.

Not a good experience and don't take it.

Modifies the class on the fly even before the strike. He was extremely rude and states he won't repeat himself in lectures some days, but will completely 180 that rule on other days. Goes out of his way to make sure his lecture recordings aren't posted for students. Expects a lot from his students but misses his own class the most.

He cancels in-person class 3 min before starting. He merges office hours with other courses. He is the typical I-don't-care-about-the-students-I'm-only-doing-this-for-money that kind of person. He even says "you can write whatever you want in the evaluation for this course because that doesn't matter." I don't know why the school tolerates him.

He puts a camera there not for recording lectures but for attendance. He cancels courses without notifying anyone.

Trash lecture content. Discussion will requite you to take notes, and your points will take off if they think your are taking a bad notes Even you write like two pages front and back. The quiz is using lockdown browser and two programing quiz write it by hand and they are extremally hard. Programming homework is way hard than you expected.

Posnett is the worst CS professor I have had the displeasure of taking at UCD, this is coming from someone who has enjoyed Kaloti and Nitta. Posnett is mean, roasts you for asking questions in class and assigns some of the most insane CS projects. Our final project was meant to be 800+ lines of x86 asm. Nothing about this class was enjoyable. AVOID

I would advise against taking this class. He mostly just talks about the material and rarely shows examples. Does not give clear study guides, just gives you topics to cover and all your tests are on paper. Give some leeway with grading and extensions but other than that this class was not good, had to teach myself a lot of the material.

Homework may take up lots of time, and difficulty is like the graph of x^3, not to mention that the final project is NOT friendly to begineers with zero coding experience. Although he gave reasonable curve in MT1, but I would suggest you to avoid him at all costs, and try to have Steven's class, I heard that he is fantastic.

I'm going to be very honest. If you had experience with coding and making projects in Python, then you'll be able to cope with his class and maybe get a A, it just takes much more time than your other classes. But if you're a BEGINNER who doesn't know or know little about coding in Python, I strongly suggest you NOT TAKING HIS CLASS!

probally one of the rudest professors I ever met, and also if you have never coded before, don't take his class, the final although is online, is not friendly for coding beginners, take stevens instead.

for a beginner class for non-majors, this class is taught in an extremely intimidating and callous manner. he is knowledgable, but seems to expect preexisting coding competency. final project is ridiculous and out of the scope of the class (said by my CS friends). extremely disappointing and definitely turned many beginners away from programming.

The worst professor i met.

Worst class I have ever taken. For an intro-level class, I needed help from my CS friend for a project and we got stuck for hours. Any explanation the professor gives is not inciteful and he harasses us for asking questions that HE deems trivial. Attendance is mandatory, but 40% is lecture, and 60% is him prattling when it could be a canvas post.

Taking ECS 32A with Posnett made my brain rot. There was not enough time given for the tests/midterms. No one was able to finish the second midterm with the time given. When the stats for the midterms were asked, he refused to share them. Would not recommend taking classes with him. Take Stevens if you are taking 32A.

Final project is impossible for intro-level course

Avoid him like a plague.The course material itself is not that difficult but he made everything so confusing and hard. Don't torture yourself, just take other professors.I am speechless, this man truly has BIG EGO.Killed all my possible interests in programming, this is a nightmare.

This is the toughest final I've seen so far. The professor gave a very difficult final project that make people confuse. It felt like no one could get grades on this final project.

The syllabus of the course is always changing during the quarter!!! The final project is really hard, it is impossible for the students who just begin to learn Python to finish!

doesn't tell you what chapters of the book will be convered, only tells you like a week before the exam. doesn't record lectures, doesn't post lecture slides nor lecture notes 8 am mandatory attendance, horribly disorganized class. taking this class along with 3 other cs/math classes put me close to depression. only take 12 units if ur taking this

This class was a genuine mental health hazard. His finals are somewhat fair at best, and his homeworks are time-consuming. This class alone felt like a 12-unit quarter. Chill dude, but expects too much from his students

Posnett is probably one of the most difficult professors I've ever had to deal with. He claims attendance doesn't matter then decides to give a 3 minute pop quiz starting exactly at the class start time. Just imagine this: If you 5 minutes late for whatever reason, he takes away points. Makes very terrible jokes - save yourself the headache.

He pusposefully creates situations for students to fail in his class. Like posting the project submission a day before the due date. Gives out 3 minute pop quizzes at the beginning of class without notice. Reads off the slide but doesn't post them. Your better off just reading the book while in his lecture.

No clear syllabus, random pop quizzes, 15 min late for the midterm (he call it module quiz), does not show your score on canvas so you don't know how you did in the class. Awful, avoid.

While it is very clear that the professor is very knowledgeable, his teaching style just did not work. The lectures are usually just a reiteration of the slides and do not expand much beyond that, he even discourages questions and presents extremely difficult assignments for a beginner class. It was so unenjoyable that I lost all interest in CS.

This is the worst professor I have ever had. ( I don't say that lightly) He would degrade students for 10 min+ if they would walk in even a second late to our 8am class. He preaches about respect, but I don't think he has ever shown respect to his students.

Never take this class please save yourself.

He intentionally makes every assignment and exam extremely difficult. His lectures are confusing, and he is also condescending and rude to students when they ask questions. Hands down, this is the most stressful class I've ever been in. I highly recommend taking someone else for ECS32C. I ended up retaking it with Weaver and learned ten times more.