Weird sense of humour, doesn't give a clear sense of direction, no enthousiasm.

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The worst of the lot

Probst needs to be given a bar of soap... and at least a dozen tic tacs. be careful when you read the book, he has his own interpretation. and there's no right way to prepare for this course aside from getting previous midterms and assignments.

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The guy is in his own world...don't bother taking his courses unless you're from Mars yourself...he asks questions that can be interpreted 1001 ways..

I agree on that : The guy is in his own world...don't bother taking his courses unless you're from Mars yourself...he asks questions that can be interpreted 1001 ways.. You never know what he is asking for in the exam!!! Don't take his class ...

ask questions that almost have nothing to do with the material

The class itself is so easy that it makes up for his HORRIBLE and BORING teaching style. If he is writing the exam, go to Jolie Copie and get a copie of an older final of his so that you can learn what the heck he's talking about on the rea thing!

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He knows nothing about teaching. Time and courage killer

Avoid this teacher as possible. very very very boring. You will learn nothing.

very boring ... and learn nothing ..

take another course...

feb 6, still waiting the grade of the fall session...

Is this guy still around?! He sucked back in 1993 as well!!!!

CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY!!!!!!The worst teacher I ever had. He is ****ing delirious....talking to himself and coming up with the CRAZIEST analogies ever....his classes/notes have no structure and he can't even make a stupid course website....I don't recommend him to anyone.

The worst teacher I ever had. He speaks good english, but he just wastes time in making no sense in the whole term.

The most insecure man I've ever encountered. I almost feel bad for him. He does know a lot about computer science, but he can't teach it due to his preoccupation of making sure everyone knows he is 'brilliant' and with putting down every other computer scientist. He even disrespects his own university. And yes, we know, you hate intel.

Avoid if he is teaching this course. Sorry to say that he is incompetent in this subject. Was a waste of 4 months and tuition. Textbook - which he picked out - was hardly used. The worst course/prof combination I have ever experienced. I can't speak for his other courses though.

I don't like him at all but don not have a choice.

This guy is all over the place. He's funny in class however his charm stops there. In terms of teaching, he is very unprepared, makes mistakes constantly and gives us assignments that not even he knows how to do. Gives us broken up code that is pretty much useless. Very steep learning curve since he doesnt help much in the learning process.

There are other teachers that teach 348, and seriously if there are none in a semester wait!!!! He doesnt know how to teach, and TRUST ME when i say this he sucks hardcore at teaching. I wont talk about how he smells because his smell doesnt make the course different, but from what I experienced before switching into a diff profs course, this guy

He's not only the worse teacher at Concordia but also in the whole universe. I am not kidding, so take my words seriously. His language of teaching is so different from the english we talk. I just don't get what the hell he wants from his students. You need to give an answer in his vocabulary but he's incomprehensible. AVOID HIM OR GET READY TO DIE

Very bad teacher. You need to reason with his reasoning all the time. I learnt nothing! In fact the whole diploma program is useless. Avoid it!

Wow, after 20 years it's interesting to see this guy still sucks. We didn't have the pleasure to rate profs in my days, but trust me, the ratings would have been consistent - this is the worst prof I had in all my years at Concordia. This guy is a egotistical low life.

Little story about this teacher, specifically tells no "trees" in the midterm. BAM, third of midterm is only trees. What he tells afterwards? Ohh well, I thougth trees were more interesting than lists, moreover, the curve will take care of your grades. Pretty much reflects his whole course. He does what he wants, when he wants totally unrestricted.

Interesting professor, but very unorganized and seems to not really care about the success of his students.

Prof. Probst is undeniably very smart. However, his lectures are at best a confusing ramble. He his highly disorganized and obviously cares very little about lowly undergraduate students. This is the canonical smart, but living-in-his-head-and-only-cares-about-his-research prof.

EPIC EPIC EPIC :) Taaaaaakeeeeeee hiiiiiiiiiiim ! For the love of entertainment ! Btw : do not mention that you love object-oriented programming and if you say that you love C++ or Java he might kick you out of his class :) otherwise EPIC PROF ! His slides are the best

Worst teacher I've ever had! Gives no feedback (blames it on the lazy T.A.). His lectures consist of about 10 minutes of teaching followed by 2 and a half hours of nonsensical preaching about his own feelings about the book and its authors. His assignments make no sense either. Would NEVER take again.

worst prof at the computer science department. instead of following the official course outline he invents "author course", result: 50% or more of the students had to drop the class to avoid him at all costs. concordia really should investigate his "teaching"

The course was unorganized, he does not like using books (he writes his own notes), and he keeps saying that everyone is an moron, except himself, of course, which is kinda ironic. I am not saying he is dumb, he should just stop teaching. Please for the love of education! Nice guy though, but not effective teacher.

His assignment material isn't covered in class, and his exams aren't based on lectures or the assignments. He thinks testing is a game where he gets more points the worse people do. Midterm average of 30% in a 200 level class. He's rude to people asking questions and generally snide if you don't understand the material immediately. 010.

This course is interesting, but with probst, no way... whole class, he sits at a desk, that he turns around to face the class, puts the book down, and has his own notes over it. talks about the material in a way that you have no idea what is going on. rants how the book is inaccurate and what he hates about it... exams are not that hard but study!

Probstaly the worst teacher in Concordia. Bad lectures, doesn't explain that well, and always goes against the book..

BAD BAD BAD!!! For the love of god Concordia U should suspend any lecturing privileges that this man has! Boring lectures consisting of mostly rants. Expect to read and study on your own. TAs are wonderful, in fact you can get through this course attending nothing but tutorials.

The worst prof in Concordia. This is not even an understatement

This is the only time I've give a 1-1-1 to a teacher. Don't even bother going to lectures. Skipping them will probably get a you a higher grade. Go to tutorials if you're willing to stay at school till 10PM.

The absolute worst prof I've ever had.

TERRIBLE TEACHER... its not even funny. I'm an A student, and enjoy learning, and his classes ruin everything about school and learning. He should not be a teacher, he should stick with research. Avoid at all costs, but if you do have to take him, just read his notes, skip his class and go to the tutorials.

Terrible, constant complaints and insults. Thank goodness that Samia (the Hero of COMP228) is still around for this course, students really need her to achieve success.

Worse class I had so far. Does not use a text book because for him they are all bad. So he gives his own crappy version of a book. I had to study all on my own.

The only thing he does is read his own notes...

1st class he clearly said, Sigh, I really did not want to teach this class. There is no txtbook just notes typed on Notepad. Uses made up terms and analogies in class. Lectures are terrible, TAs are saviors. No partial marks on midterm. For Final, he said, Memory Walls will not be on exam, whole page on it. Rating is 0. Must google everything. etc.

Awful Teacher. Try to avoid him he is going to make your life miserable. Very simple question he states the most complicate way so that students can not answer it.

I've had a lot of bad teachers, but Man-God Probst is the king of them all. Lectures are confusing and pointless. Nothing he says make sense, and exam/assignment questions sound like they're written in another language. Go to Samia's tutorials to pass, she's such a sweetheart and doesn't deserve the hell he puts her through. He's just a mean person

Quite disrespectful when asking him to clarify concepts. It's almost like he's trying to discourage students that want to learn more material they have yet to understand fully due to his lack of teaching skills. Gives Midterm questions that are completely impractical in real life (unicorn registers).

I feel like he tries and means well. Definitely smart. Not good at teaching and terrible at reaching out to other people.

Very little content learned through the semester. He tested stuffs taught after midterm in midterm exam, ummm.. Expect you to fill in the blanks in an exam, so generally if you messed up with some calculation, you lose all the marks, almost no partial mark given. Exams questions aren't hard but quite unclear.

if only negative rating were possible He is one of the worst prof in concordia. he knows what he talking about but teaching(F- )why does he even teach?? go and work as director somewhere his notes is typed on freaking notepad.!!__!! even the pictures are made with plus and minus Imminent danger is he is your prof

Don't take him if you want to learn something. Also his material is nowhere near the actual department's course outline. He is a very complicated teacher who shouldn't be teaching undergrad classes. You won't even have any clue what he is talking about. His final is different from other sections too.

My entire semester I was waiting for khaleesi to come and save me from this prof. She didn't.

Honestly the worst experience I have had to deal with at Concordia.

This man has a giant ego and is a horrible professor. He manages to turn this material into an incomprehensible mess. He does not follow a textbook because in his words "Everyone who writes textbooks are morons". He skips over import stuff like logic gates . The difficulty in this course is understanding what he is asking. TAs are saviors.

We're at the midterm and I still don't know what this course is about. I don't know what Probst wants or what he's trying to do. I don't understand his notes and why he doesn't use LaTeX or, at least, PDFs. This is just a weird, saddening experience. Some may say I'm depressed and well that's just what Probst does to you.

His "lectures" are incomprehensible, he will make a mistake mid-sentence, pause for 5 seconds, correct himself and then continue as if nothing happened, then go on a tangent, and then come back an hour later, and you will not have progressed through the course material. Was that sentence long? That's how his lectures are, a 1-hour sentence.

He is impossible to understand. Makes the course 10x harder than it should be. Midterm averages are always below 40. You'll pass the course having learned NOTHING.

I do not know why Concordia hasn't fired this prof yet... he's awful. Burps in the middle of his lectures, provides endless lecture notes to leave students lost, and talks SO MUCH. Attending the tutorials helped!

The course is not difficult, but he makes it very confusing to understand. Usually when you attend a class you know what's going on if you pay attention, but with him, you'll lose your mind if you do. First time in my life I feel clueless about the material after the midterm.

You can't understand anything from his lecture. He starts his lecture with talking about CPU, and in the middle of the lecture, you find yourself listing to the advantage of drinking green tea. He is a very distinctive person whenever he has any idea that pops into his mind he says it. The Tutorial was the main source to understand the course.

Didn't learn a single thing and grading makes no sense. he refuses to talk about grades or look over assignments. He acts like he's better than everyone else on the planet and he seems like he's not from this world. He's a terrible prof but some of the things he says are random and funny. His words don't make sense on hw and exams

Doesn't have lecture slides, just a giant stream of ASCII text streamed from his terminal. Cannot finish a single sentence without diverging into irrelevant rants. His research history is also very shallow (basically he stopped active writing 35 years ago). He can't teach, he can't write, why are students supposed to still suffer with him?

He has a strange obssessions to _Plain Text_, he wouldn't use any other material than his txt file that was last updated 2005. TAs and Prof is not connected at all, passing the ball to each other. Belittles and humiliates students if they give wrong answers. He sent an email that Chinese speakers cannot fully understand English. all happened 2021.

Just a really bad prof. Lectures are very dry, he teaches you material where he uses terms he coined himself and have no relevance outside of the class, understanding the material doesnt get you a good grade, memorizing past exams does. Creepy desktop pdfs, fails almost everyone on the midterm, but tells you the curve will handle everything

Worst prof I have ever had in my lift, not just at Concorida.

hope all of you avoid his class.

Professor does not use Slides nor the blackboard. The content of the course is sent by mail as text. In the lectures he just talks in an unstructured way about the topics. He will not give you old exams or any exam task to prepare for tests.

He assumes prior knowledge that is beyond the scope of the class and will ramble on very in depth and technical topics that only him understands (obviously). Keeping up with the reading (which are not structured in any way) while attending lectures is almost impossible. Avoid it if you can

Dry and boring lectures. One of those odd professors who think speaking in obscure/extremely technical terms somehow makes them seem more knowledgeable. Don't care about making students to engage with the content and make the subject more applicable to real life. Will coin his own terms and get offended when you ask questions

Unbearable lectures; he's constantly correcting himself due to "brain failure." TA assistance is nonexistent. Assignments and midterms are written in an undecipherable language, making it impossible to discern his requirements. He's pedantic and will belittle you for asking questions. He seems determined to ensure you fail the midterm.

You will learn nothing valuable from this course and will, undoubtedly, make the next four months of you life extremally stressful. Being that said, if you stick together and find a study group, with the help of the curve, you will do fine. Bear in mind the midterm and final are designed for you to fail (acknowledged by the prof) so don't stress

This is one of the hardest classes I have ever taken and that is weird to say because the material is fairly easy. The factor that makes everything complicated and not clear is the professor itself. He usually makes mistakes when giving answers or going through the lecture. He doesn't provide clear explanations and assumes we know everything.

mean mean mean

Very slow and not kind. His exams are very difficult. But don't worry he curves

Does not know how to use a computer. All class content is sent in an unreadable way as literal text by email. He sits with a paper in his face during lectures and reads off of it. Goes way over time every time and talks for hours for nothing. Avoid unless you want to punish yourself.