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At first, I thought that he was a good instructor but soon discovered that he was just Acton'.

He knew TA's were marking the final incorrectly, but he was too lazy to do anything about it. He was also rude to students.

Just awful... I'm not sure which tho, the course or the prof.

OMG HE IS SO BAD. worst prof iv had in CPSC

Very very bad prof.. very tough on students.. demanding on assignments and quizzes.. previous sections' assignments were 2 parts mostly.. ours was 3.. unhelpful and unclear lectures.. oh and very inconsiderate of students

Material very unclear. Assignments/Labs and lectures aren't complementary.

This is a terrible professor, AVOID IF YOU CAN! Is supposed to be teaching computer science yet constantly has trouble with Windows XP. Quizzes are impossible unless you have done the course before. Assignments don't teach you anything and were completely unclear to me for at least 2 weeks. Constantly goes off topic in class. Notes are VERY UNCLEAR

Extremely unorganized course website. Contrary to his teaching where programs should be legible and clean, it was a nightmare to navigate through the site. The things he talks about in lectures are irrelevant to quizes, labs and the final. He is just not a teacher material.

Stay away from this professor at all cost. He loves teaching terminologies which are not essential in coding.

he eliminates interests in computer programming, period.

THE WORST PROFESSOR I'VE EVER HAD. Totally lost interest in programming. NO sense of logic, can't teach, not organized, likes failing his students, class average on quizzes is below 50%. All questions are there to trick you, never clear and concise. AVOID AT ALL COSTS! if you have him, best of luck

WARNING TO ALL ABOUT TO TAKE HIS COURSE: drop out asap and take the course when a different prof is teaching it. otherwise suffer at ur own risk

its hopeless...all efforts put into this course will be in vain

This is the worst, most unprofessional professor I have ever had. DELAY TAKING THIS COURSE FOR AS LONG AS YOU CAN! His notes look like they were made by a kid: messy, bad formatting, very unclear, SPELLING MISTAKES! Quizzes have formatting errors and other mistakes in them! The course is purely theoretical... not a single application is taught.

STAY AWAY!!!!!

This prof laughs with schadenfreude when only 1 out of a 136 people in the class get the question right, and assigns ridiculously difficult assignments that need at least 15 hours to complete. Moreover he typically spends two thirds of the lecture time giving us propaganda about his unreasonable grading scheme.

The prof if full of epicaricacy and expresses his pleasure by laughing at the class when 80% got the first question on one of his quizzes wrong.Moreover, he changed the course outline so that you can only get 71% if you dont do his "optional" assignments which take you atleast 16 hours to do. It possible that he will abuse students further later.

He is the last person you want to work with, extremely unhelpful, unreasonable, always give misleading advices. How could he still in UBC. I wondered...

I say, Donald, get out of UBC now

I have learned that he loves to torture students in various ways of clicker questions, 30% of the final mark is based on "optional" assignments, expectation way too high(were engineers not compSci). chuckles when we don't understand, he doesn't teach in class. He will rip out your brain if you take his class. In the end,he's the only one having fun

This prof's idea of "Optional Assignment" is that if you don't do it, you get 5% deducted from the final grade, and you are expected to spend 20 hours on it. When asked "If a student spends 20 hours and it doesn't work, and gets a zero, is it fair?" the prof replied, "Yes! I think it is fair!"

Should not be teaching . . . if he is the prof for your class, do whatever you can to get another prof (that mean waiting if you can) . . . not clear, no constructive feedback, cannot lecture . . .To do well in his class, learn by yourself but even this his assessments are very low scoring. . . Not approachable at all. . . I repeat, STAY AWAY

This is the worst professor in the history of mankind. This man reminds of Jigsaw from the movie Saw, he gets a kick out of torturing people. Don't bother going to class, it will only confuse you.

Difficult professor, but does not deserve the nasty comments, he is obviously very knowledgeable in what he teaches. No one is perfect.

The computer science department should re-evaluate this teacher and do the RIGHT thing

I wonder how long it would take the TAs to do the assignments and projects. Since they actually dont know GUI. Expectations why too high, Science Teachers don't understand engineers.

Terrible teacher and terrible grading scheme. Who had the smart idea of making 30% of the course "optional" with harsh grading criteria and no TA help? BTW I got an A

Avoid his classes. The mark scheme is extremely unfair. 30% of grade mark comes from "optional assignments and projects" whereby students are expected to do long and tedious programming that is well ahead of what is taught in class. We get almost no help from TAs or him. And aside from the optional assignments, he is still a horrible teacher.

horrible professor I have nothing to say more.

His teaching methods are as effective as smoking a cigarette or drinking alcohol, both methods guarantee a loss of brain cells.

Honestly, when the whole class gets an average of below 50% for quizzes, you can tell whether it's the teacher's inability to teach or the student's inability to learn. Probably the latter, the students can't learn from someone who can't teach. Terrible prof. Worst prof I've ever had. Everyone studies hard and gets a terrible mark.

His lecture slides are extremely confusing, the assignments are arduous and long, the quizzes obscure, and the marking extremely capricious. When the class fails quizzes (which happens frequently, given their level of obscurity), he doesn't bother going over the questions we struggled with. Assignments took forever to be returned. Avoid at all cost

He's generally a 'nice' guy and clearly knowledgeable about the material but prepare for him talking nonstop for 50 minutes. Trying to take notes are useless. Lecture slides are useless. Attend tutorials and read the chapters in the textbook in detail. Also find the lecture slides by the textbook author, much more helpful than his slides.

At some point in time I'm sure he was once a pretty decent prof, but it's pretty clear now he doesn't know what he's doing and his methods are inefficient. Either he doesn't know or he doesn't care; the ridiculous amount of copy paste assignments, practice quizzes/exams, and lectures, all riddled with errors and irrelevant info prove the latter.

Horrible professor, do yourself a favor and avoid as much as possible. Clearly UBC Admin doesn't take teacher evals seriously, as anyone I have ever spoken to about Donald immediately says how bad their course was with him BECAUSE of him. Awful awful professor.

Please avoid him if possible. Worst prof I have ever had He is a nice guy but he has no idea how to teach. I did well in the exam purely because I read textbooks in detail. By the way the organization of 415 is so messy. there are so many excellent mooc courses from other schools, way better than 415. Dont waste your time and tuition on 414

This prof is hands down the worst thing that has ever happened to me. Avoid this bad boy at all cost.

Avoid at all costs. If you're looking to take CPSC 317, you're better off reading from the textbook, as it goes far more in depth and answers your questions far better than he did. Completely inaccessible outside of class, doesn't answer any piazza questions. The only thing you'll learn is how to read from a textbook

Horrendous exp, cannot teach to save his life. I learn more from Googling all the info than showing up at his lecture. Likes to go off on tangents in class and gets side tracked. TAs during office hours are left lost in the dark without proper guidance, prof fails to teach the class and his own TAs. Quiz avg 57% regareded as "ok its good!"

He seems like a nice guy, but there's a number of things wrong with this course. There's an impression that he wings every lecture since he has trouble answering students questions. The textbook is terrible, the assignments are confusing, and the man is always MIA online. I could write an essay but that'd be more effort than he put into this class!

Take it with any other prof if possible. People saying the content is relevant is because they learned from textbook. Donald doesn't actually teach anything and his slides make absolutely no sense. If you really want to learn about networking just download the textbook and read about it on your own.

Wast of time, nerves and sanity. If you want to learn the topics he teaches, simply download the textbooks and read them instead. Thats what you have to do in his classes anyway, only pain and suffering comes as a bonus I guess.

Horrendous professor, with unclear lectures, content, testable materials, and quizzes. Don't ever take his classes.

Worst ever in UBC. Ambiguous lecture making easy concept complex, harsh grading of assignment, no office hour, testing not corresponds to what be taught in the lecture.

Assignment descriptions super unclear, typos everywhere, bugs in starter code. Most frustrating cs course experience ever

Worst prof I've ever had at UBC. Ton of mistakes in lectures, extremely ambiguous/misleading assignments, very inaccessible outside of class (piazza). 59% class average on the first quiz because nearly half of the questions were never taught in any form of way, and he did this on purpose to try to control the class average to be in the 60s.

Awful professor, avoid at all costs. The longer he talks, the more confusing things get. You're better off reading things on your own and then they will seem much much esier. Awful explanations, awful slides, awful diagrams, awful all around.