Unable to get the word across, He has a hard time understanding questions,he is so focused on what he is suppose to teach, so when he is asked some question out of what he is prepared for, he gets stuck. Very unclear at times, and I think he doesn't know anything else beside databases, not really knowledgeable.

Did not prepare for class ahead of time. I went into the class hoping to learn more about databases and left really unimpressed by the whole experience. Very hard to understand. When they say profs just teach so they can research, this is the prof they mean.

Does not know anything. Very unhelpful. Asks for feedback and then slams you left and right with prepared come-backs. If you already know everything, why the hell do you want my feedback?

A poor teacher, difficult to understand, unclear and apprehensive in response to questions, lectures were sleep-inducing since he would say something he had prepared earlier and then write it VERBATIM on the board, some assignments seemed incredibly contrived, he managed to effectively turned a software engineering class into a database class, ugh.

This course would have been enjoyable if not for the prof. He hardly provides any notes past the second half of the semester and the notes that he does have are lacking. A lot of the material was self taught and very little exercise problems were posted with no solutions. Extremely high expectations but office hours are no help.

Davood is disrespectful and quite frankly a terrible lecturer. He cannot speak and write or erase the board at the same time. He writes slow, which leaves minute long breaks of silence while he stands in front of the words hes slowly writing on the board. He turned an interesting class to one that was stale and dry, and that I dreaded attending.

Marking scheme is very ambiguous, there are marks for class participation but there is no well defined methodology on how those marks are calculated. For technical reports, you will find there is no template given at starting of course. Marks with a predefined unshared template. Would never take course with him again.

He is a bad prof. He skips on details and doesn't explain thoroughly. I feel completely lost in his lectures. If you were to compare his 2006 notes to now, it's basically the same thing and he didn't try to improve it.

The worst prof I ever had. Assignments are vague and require him to make 1001 clarifications up to until one day before the actual deadline. Many TAs are not well-trained and have no idea what should be done in the assignments. They even contradict to what the prof is saying. A huge clarification was made 1,5 hours before assignment 1 deadline.

Very heavy course. He gives very difficult assignments. To make the matter worse, his TAs are not well trained to help students. Sometimes, there is a mismatch between the lectures and the labs.

When we ask the minimal pass grades about this course. He answered something that is totally useless but confessing us. All we want to know it's the minimal pass. The professor is so inpatient. I would never ever take his class again.

A bunch of assignments were all due within a week of each other and then there would be nothing due for three weeks. It was not a fair test of knowledge because I was not able to dedicate all my time to the class since I had other classes and commitments.

Awful! He does not have any slack when something comes up. He tests a bunch of the course knowledge within the same week. He had group assignments even though it was online and some people may not know anyone in the class. This is a second year course and he seems to not realise that.

What he did this term was reading his slides and notes. he indeed answered student questions in class but he wasted too much time on it and he did not answer the questions most of the time (making us confused). His project is very time-consuming. he changed his rubric after due. This course objective is unclear, I don't know what to expect.

He would assign multiple tests/quizzes and assignments to be due/done all in the same week. Almost as if he didn't want you to do well.

There were so many little assignments, they became tedious and overwhelming. Plus the lectures were not good. Do not take him unless necessary

Terrible. Should have separated assignments better for grade. Had quizzes worth 1%. What was the point?

No good! Would never take another class with him again. Had quizzes worth like nothing but you still needed to study for them. Should have had a better plan now that its online

Group projects were a lot of work

By far the worst professor I have had. Leaves a single practice final from the year 2000 and expect us to go through the slides, but then when we go through the slides they are so vague that is impossible to obtain anything from it. Vague assignments as well. If you are taking this course be prepared to teach yourself.

He's an absolute monkey. Can't take feedback even when he asks for it. Can't accept a different method for his examples. Can't teach and literally tells you to look at examples online. Can't justify his assignments by teaching the concepts in class. He's just out here stealing paychecks.

Davood covers irrelevant theory in lectures, don't bother attending. You will learn better by spending the extra time on the many projects, assignments, and lab quizzes. Don't learn from the opaque lecture notes either, use google. Assignment guidelines will be ambiguous and contradictory, don't worry too much. The TAs marking are lenient.

The prof does not take feedback well, most feedback were brushed off or ignored. Good luck getting accommodations for anything if you happen to fall sick and you may find that he's hard to understand at (most) times. Workload for class is drastically increased from a lot of add ons which he does very often and requirements almost always unclear.

You're lucky if the lectures are even tangentially related to any of the course work. Terrible notes, much better chance understanding from reading one of the recommended textbooks. Three large group projects. Doesn't take feedback well. one assignment, worth 12%, was based around mongoDB. we had one set of 20 lab slides in instruction for mongoDB

Undoubtedly the worst professor I have had in uni so far. He is the least approachable person on this planet cause he replies to everything with "Idk". Made us do a project on something taught in lab class for barely an hour and never wanted to help. Lecture notes are not organized at all so I have no idea where to study from half the time.Horrible

One of the most useless professors I've had. His lectures are useless, slides are incomprehensible, treats his students disrespectfully, and can't take course feedback from students (he brushes them all off as an issue on the students' part). Seems like the sorta guy to be breeding hamsters for a living, not teaching a database course.

He is absolutely useless as a professor. His classes are a waste of time. Everything he teaches makes no sense. Knows nothing. He can't answer any doubts. Can't make an effort to help his students. Youtube is your saviour. Notes are utterly useless. Be prepared to see the worst course in your degree.

worst professor ever. I would recommend you rather wait 3 years to take this course with a good prof than to take it with this prof. Doesn't care about anyone and basically makes you suffer for your mark. This was a self study course and I am ashamed to say that I spent $600 for what I ended up learning alone.

He doesn't care about students at all, his notes are absolutely useless and what he teaches in class has nothing to do on labs/exams.This guy has a policy where he ignores everyone two days before deadline of projects. Most of the time it feels like he doesn't know what he's talking about, and he avoids questions by saying that's a tough question

Not good. Lecture notes are a mess. One of the big projects was based on a material only covered by a few lab slides. Midterm and final had both an in-person exam and an online exam.

a murder

Teaches in an extremely unintuitive way PowerPoints have no information that will actually help you learn Teaches 2+2 = 4 and expects calculus in assignments and exams Very tough grader

Ignore mistakes students pointed out and 50% of questions in class are unsure. Waste most of the time teaching something highly related to assign proj. Everything is what you believe is right or wrong (ER diagrams), and proj demo requirements are not clear, too. Use the same Quizzes every yr ppl just copy and paste the correct ans.

I do not think he cares a bit about the students. His notes and lectures are terrible and will never prepare you for an exam or an assignment. You will have to self learn everything from youtube.

The dude reads off the slides so there is no value to coming to class Assignment 1 was easy 2 was dramatically different in how hard it is START EARLY The two group projects are ok if you have decent people Midterm was Hard due to the lack of time you have to do it The Prof him self really could care less about his students.

He does not prepare for the exam at all

Of my three years of uni, this is the first prof I would firmly state that delivers their course terribly what so ever. Gives answers by repeating the question on the test, does not take feedback, twists the words of negative feedback into as words of good feedback of him, textbook is better at teaching but has some unnecessary topics.