Don't do it. Wont learn a single thing in class. Just don't.

Horrible. His exams are nearly impossible, homework is extremely vague.

The projects are pretty vague and he forces his own solution to the problems without giving much information. Average for the first test was below a 50%. Homework for first half of semester was open ended questions. Test was MC with 3 choices. Repetitive questions on test. Specific questions on test. First year teaching. Would never take again.

Worst class in history. The tests are extremely hard/dumb and his homework are very time confusing and vague. The class is unorganized and you will not learn a thing. His handwriting looks like chicken scribbles so good luck reading any notes he posts. I walked into this class with a whole brain and came out with less than two brain cells.

Everything about the class was made 10 times harder than it already was because of how the professor teaches. His exams are nearly impossible and his homework takes forever to finish. good luck if you stuck with him.

Very difficult class, unhelpful in general. Lectures were messy and most of the time unprepared. Project and homework instructions were vague and we were told he would "fix it" or "add more" later, so instructions were not cleared up right away. Exams were just as difficult and vague. Stay away, you'll do much better with literally ANY one else.

Never had a class/professor that I hated more. I learned nothing from this class, all of the homework assignments were poorly designed and the projects were as well. He would expect us to make up project instructions as we go and we would only get clarification from working through the project and correcting him in class. Don't take this professor.

He seems to lack some knowledge. Takes forever to respond to emails or never does. Does not do well at explaining. He is late at everything like grading, posting projects, syllabus, or other material. For the last project, which was super difficult, he did the review 3 weeks past the date he had specified on the syllabus.

One advice, please run away. The professor is so good in class you may think he's the best. Once you see his homework and projects you'll regret ever taking this class. He talks about 5% of the entire material and the homework and projects have unexpcected standards to meet, not even covered in his lectures. Do not take him

Projects and homework are disproportionately harder than what he teaches during lecture and take forever. Salazar seems like a pretty nice guy, but I'd go with a different professor for 4337 if I could go back.

He has 3 projects 3 exams and 6/7 homeworks and a quiz every week. He made the project 1 optional because we were so far behind. when It came to project 2 we are required to write in racket. He thought it for 2 or 3 classes at most, and expects us to do a hard AI project. 3 weeks left and we still have a lot to cover. AVOID HIM AT ALL COST.

The class overall is pretty boring, probably because of the topics, and the professor too seems to tilt outside or too deep on the topic he's teaching. His assignments are time consuming and projects are out of this world. He expects us to learn a new language in a week and code an ai based on a functional language 3projects, 3exams, 6Hw's no time.

Very reasonable projects and deadlines. NOT! Taught very basic scheme in about 2 lessons then assigned an AI assignment and made us code it in racket. We are 2 and a half weeks out from the end of the semester and we still have 2 homeworks, 2 exams, and a long project to be assigned.

He is a good person. But his way of teaching is strange. I was liking the class at first, but the projects are so terrible. Heavy workload. Do yourself a favor and don't take him.

While Professor Salazar is a kind professor, his projects so far have been very difficult and time consuming, requiring you to spend a lot of time outside of class to just have an understanding of how to start. I am very scared that I won't be able to graduate based off the projects alone in his class. I am unsure if he grades leniently.

Projects are atrocious. Bad management. Grades hard

Our homework is insanely difficult, and we had questions that should've been a project instead. A lot of us couldn't even complete the homework given. I did not procrastinate on the project and still couldn't figure out how to code it. He wanted us to make AI in such little time, with a new language that has a different way of thinking.

There were plenty of typos in the project description and questions on the exam. Professor seems to not care. Avoid at all costs.

He will teach you two classes in a new language and expect you to do a Ph.D.-level project in two weeks. Even some of the questions in the homework are as hard as the projects of other professors. You better avoid this professor..No extra credit and harshly graded assignments and projects.

I have no clue what has been going on in the class whatsoever. He teaches like he is reviewing something from last class. Except we never had that last class. As another student has mentioned: "If I had one more semester to live, I would re-take this class because it feels like an eternity."

This class gets increasingly more painful throughout the semester. You've been warned.

He started a project (30% of your final grade) this semester, and the course is messed up. The exams are online and open-book, but that will not help unless you study hard. Harshly grade everything. The professor is nice, but his teaching methods and assessments are bad.

Made an account just for this professor. Easily one of the worst classes I've taken so far at this school. The material is actually not that complicated, but Salazar's slow lectures and vague test questions will make it incredibly difficult. To top it off, he assigns two of the hardest projects I have ever done in the final 5 weeks.

Professor Salazar is the best example of a person who has no idea of planning before teaching. Gives Quizzes randomly, homework is so much that he had to keep 2 assignments and 1 project due on the same day during the last exams week. I pray for those who had him for OS too as I have heard that he did the exact same thing for that class too.

It is probably the worst planning I experienced from a professor in my 3 years at UTD. Man literally gave us 2 hws and a project due on the same day (he shifted the due date of the project by like two days on the week off). For finals week, he conducts two exams on the same day. And is expecting us to finish corrections by the next day.

AVOID COMPLETELY. Most disorganized professor I've ever seen. Proficient in Racket and Prolog, but has yet to add Grammarly to his toolset. Quiz/test/HW questions are vague, misspelled, and sometimes coded to the wrong answer. The projects are unfairly hard and the lectures drag on without providing useful info. Doesn't grade until the last minute.

This seemed to be an experimental semester as he attempted to change the aspects of the course. As such, the reviews may not be reflective of his ability to teach as a whole. With that being said, however, this semester was absolutely brutal. Very poorly planned, homework assignments that were harshly graded and two insanely difficult projects.

Professor Salazar has good intentions and cares for his students, but he terribly mismanaged this class. He had two homework assignments due on the same night during finals week and a big project due on the night before the final exam. He expects us to learn a lot by ourselves for exams. Speaking about exams, the questions are incredibly vague.

This course was hard and rigorous. Online exams were vague and deep. Projects were tough and time-consuming, esp. Project 3 with hard requirements, a short deadline, and buggy given code. HWs were long and dull. Grading was slow and unfair. Prof was kind but unhelpful. This course was super stressful. Don't recommend it unless you are a masochist.

long homeworks, quizzes, vague exams. lectures are boring. there were 3 projects that were just awful. there are mini projects in the homework as well. the professor is very polite, but he just needs to realize that you can't cram a PhD into a semester-long undergraduate course. again, DON'T take prof. Salazar! any other prof would be better!

Do NOT take his class for this, even if this is the last option you have... The quizzes are so hard, no correlation to the textbook, and he gives no slides. He doesn't teach in class; just hosts discussions. He is definitely not organized, and posts assignments or 2-3 page essays the day they are due. If you do end up taking his class, good luck!

A lot of the positive reviews are fake, do not be fooled.

This professor is very caring for student. However, his lecture is very boring and it basically a summary of the book. The hw is very long and we have 6 of them. The lecture is not really usefull. A lot of caculation problems was not show during class. The TA grade really harshly like it has to be exatcly from the text book. Just take another prof.

Awful and disorganized. Avoid him at all costs if you can.

Please avoid at all costs especially after his recent class structure changes. He's made all of his courses much more difficult as the tests are in person on paper and constantly changing during the test.... This makes test taking impossible and it's weighted so heavily. On top of this projects are made impossible and homework's are also hard.

i havent finished his class yet, but please do not take him. lectures feel extremely disorganized. hes totally rearranging the exam structure compared to previous semesters. projects and homeworks take so much. absolutely drained. had a panic attack during the last exam. dont want to hear anything about virtual memory ever again. do NOT take him.

The organization of this course was awful. He showed up to at least half the lectures with no slides prepared. Lectures in general were surface level. Exams and quizzes occasionally had outright incorrect answer choices being labeled as correct. To illustrate how underprepared he was, he actually pulled up Reddit when he could not explain a topic.

Not a good professor. Extremely disorganized. Gave the exam review 3 days before the exam during a notoriously busy week and said that the final exam date "caught him off-guard". Isn't reachable by email either so good luck trying to dispute anything. No curve so his mistakes are just everyone else's problem.