Nothing good about this guy. He can't program but expects you to know how to, is a total bore and drone, and when the class is over you will have learned nothing about operating systems that has the slightest resemblance to an operating system.

He is extremely boring and corny. If you are well groomed, smart and have a bright future: he will DISLIKE you. can be a tough grader: takes tons of points off for details that don't represent the bigger picture. He's a god*amned hippie!

He's arguably funny, but a terrible teacher - I didn't learn a single thing in his class.

he doesnt really know what he wants from you. he says one thing, but expects you to understand some other things. unless you're able to get under his whimsical moods, then you're not going to do well on the class.

Horrible teacher. The worst by far. Goes way to fast, doesn't explain anything. I always had an interest in the field of Computer but after taking his class, I totally lost all of it. DO NOT TAKE!!!

This professor is horrible. His favorable reviews were most likely written by himself. He has zero real-world experience so how can other reviewers say he does? If you teach the SAME EXACT material for 3 decades, of course you're going to know it cold. Puts too much emphasis on obsolete ideas. Wants you to re-invent the wheel with projects.

Why is this guy teaching in a college? He knows nothing. His assignments are out of materials supplied by the publisher of the text. He is arrogant and uber-stale

The worst professor I had at Hunter College. I seriously have no idea why people gave him any positive feedback. It's probably those suck ups that knew everything in the class, because this dude does teach ANYTHING. The 40% of the Final did not reflect any of the material we learned in class or in the textbook. NEVER reviewed for any of the tests!

Seriously this proffessor, 40% of your grades is based on ten get this TEN 10 point quizzes given at random throughout the semester. Sure you might think it might be easy enough but he goes out of his god*amn way to purposely trick you. You will not get an A this class every single quiz he throws some bull*hit sucker question.

I wish he could get a degree in education first. He's lecture style is "repeat exactly what textbook says".

Terrible professor.

Funny and enthusiastic professor, but terrible at teaching. Pop quizzes every week.

Maybe this is due to to the environment that the class was being held... But, his lectures are hard to follow. His handwriting is hard to read and he goes through the lecture too quickly. There's times where he even miss some students with questions. (Again, maybe b/c of the environment we have to be in). Funny guy... But not the greatest lecturer.

His lectures are extremely boring. Homework is easy, but he doesnt prepare you for the test(70% of the grade) Im really glad TAs are taking notes and we have a decent textbook. Hes the only one whos teaching this class, and it takes place in a huge auditorium with about 100 students. Hunter doesnt invest in csci department at all.

Just do not take him. He is by far the worst when it comes to dealing with students in Hunter. Opionated and unreasonable

He is bad as can be. All he cares about is how easy for him to grade. Bad with technology, doesnt want to learn - stuck in the past century. Was Very unhelpful and Not understanding during coronavirus- only makes it more difficult for the students to get a good grade or even figure out How he is grading. All he cares is to not be bothered. Sad.

All the bad rewievs are true. he is The worst Ive ever had. his lectures are useless. he does not prepare for the exam(which is 70% of the grade) - refused to give us practice test even though everyone was asking him. The reason many students struggle with this class is HIM, not the material (which is challanging).

Seems to have no idea on How to teach, isn't interested in students mastering the material- just goes through the motion... extremely dull and unhelpful lectures. Doesn't welcome feedback, ignores requests, doesn't respond to emails, makes no effort to re-explain difficult concepts. Avoid at all costs - he'll make the semester miserable for you.

RUN, don't walk. He's bad.

Do yourself a favor and just take the class in another school and come back when you get the credit.

whatever class you want to take that he is teaching - wait till the next semester and hopefully another professor will teach that class. You will do yourself a huge favor! This guy can't even figure out how to administer a quiz via Blackboard - it's truly ironic he is in the CS Department.

You can count on Prof Shweitser to always be there to trick you, surprise you with a quiz, and make it clear for you that he just does not care. Awful teacher. And yes, you can learn everything from the textbook, just not how this guy can look himself in the eyes after doing so wrong by the students.

If you love yourself, please don't take any class with him. You'll save yourself from a semester or more of stress.

He does NOT care about his students. This class was a nightmare. He cared more about the possibility of cheating than us actually understanding the material. Administered 6-question quizzes with 5-minute timers, refused to even hint at what his exams would focus on, provided terrible last minute review classes, I self taught myself everything.

His notes are messy and his lecturing style is unmemorable; he has a grading rubric for exams but will not accommodate students who notice mistakes in applying the rubric. He seems to take personal offense to it.

I got an A and I Hated it! Was miserable and stressed the whole semester! Do not take him!

No point of attending lectures. Everything he teaches can be studied through the textbook. No point in asking questions during lectures. He doesn't answer them directly but rather reiterates the point he made during the lecture. Some of the questions from the midterm and final are not based on the homework assignment.

you probably have to take him but honestly prepare to be disappointed in him. He thinks he's funny and he's not, his lectures are pointless other than for taking his random quizzes and also be prepared to fail most of the tests when I had him class average was a 40. you'll have two tests that are your entire grade so good luck in this class.

I don't know how anyone can give him a good review. His class was a nightmare. Dealing with him is a nightmare. He never responds to emails, assigns random questions as homework on topics that were not covered in class and will not be tested on the exam.

- NO EXAMS TWENTY POP QUIZZES. - PDF POP QUIZZES 10 MIN EACH WITH 3 MIN PRINT-WRITE-UPLOAD TIME (TIME NONNEGOTIABLE AMID A PANDEMIC). - POP QUIZZES AUTOGRADED BY GRADESCOPE. - ONE UNIT/TXTBOOK CHAPTER PER CLASS. HIS WIFI GOES OUT AND ITS FINE BUT WHAT IF OUR WIFI GOES OUT DURING A QUIZ!!!

He gives pop quizzes with 10 mins to complete/upload. Doesn't matter if you know all the material, its almost impossible to submit on time. Doesn't answer email and avoids answering students. He takes no responsibility for his inadequacies.. Lots of self teaching. bad handwriting. He uses autograders which don't work 100% so you do bad. 0/0

I had to drop out because he is so outdated. We have do print, fill, scan and upload a pdf all within 10 minutes DURING A PANDEMIC. Take this class in another school if you can.

This man is the worst professor to be teaching this topic. He gives "surprise" quiz like we are a high school student. His handwriting is borderline graffiti. To you who are reading, I am sure you have no choice but to take him. I just wish you the best of luck, you can pass but you will be in pain & stressed through out the semester. Plz retire.

This guy is a fine teacher (although you won't need him if you read the book), but his grading is horrible. You never know what form you need to give the answer in (sometimes it matters, sometimes it does not... and you can get different grade for answer to the same question at two different times). Pretty useless, anxiety inducing class.

Although he is a jubilant guy, teaching is not his forte. I wish professors were competent enough to portray the learning information to their students. College is a swindle where the student gets scammed paying for classes where they don't even learn stuff. I wish this school could hire competent professors.

If you read the textbook and do the homework problems, you will be fine. He plucks his material from there. With that being said, he's not the friendliest Professor and I made the mistake of asking him for assistance. It's best to figure it out yourself. The TAs are not sincere either. This is the nicest possible review that I can write.

This professor should have been a clown instead of an instructor. His teaching was pretty bad and couldn't portray the learning well enough to his students. This is a self learn class. Just read the textbook or go to tutoring and take the quizzes. Get ready to learn and good luck!!

Schweitzer reads out of the textbook. There is nothing to gain from his lectures, but a lot to lose as 50% of the grade is from pop quizzes. (This is how he gets his audience.) He also reminds me of the zero property of real numbers: Like n + 0 = n, the textbook + Schweitzer = the textbook. Rearrange this equation and you have Schweitzer = 0. QED

Do not chose him at all times, He does surprise pop up quizzes where you don't know when and what will be included and they account for 60% of your grade. Homework and participation don't matter which is insane how department allow him to do this policy of grading, cause he is lazy to do standart methods, prepare for bad grade or to fail

Avoid Eric as much as possible. Randomized pop quizzes make class 10x more difficult than it needs to be. Lectures are also not the best imo but the worst part is just his grading system.

extremely odd grading policy, most of your grade depends on pop quizzes that are randomly assigned. I find it annoying when teachers call their tests/quizzes/assigments "easy" and "should be able to do within 2 mins" when they have a whole degree in what their teaching so obviously its easy for them. Avoid at all costs

he is satan's right hand man

this dude is evil bro he is the first professor I've met who is genuinely out to get you just for the fun of it. I've met professors who are bad at teaching but are good people at heart; he's bad at teaching and devoid of soul. Please don't take him if you can.

First ever professor who's out to fail you like the previous comment has said. AVOID, this class with other professor is signifcantly more straight forward, Eric just makes this class more difficult, he's probably reading the reviews right now and laughing, thinking of how he can make the next day of class unbearable.

Don't like his pop quizzes, like the topics are unpredictable.

He makes the content much harder than it needed to be. He also writes the final/quiz questions in the most confusing way possible. Random pop quizzes that are worth 60% of your grade. And he gives little to no partial credit whatsoever. Tutoring helped me pass this class. Avoid Eric like the plague.

He makes the class way harder than it needs to be. His lectures are very hard to follow because his handwriting is awful and he constantly makes mistakes. He gives pop quizzes that are worth 60% of your grade. He gives no partial credit. The only redeeming thing about him is that he supposedly curves by dropping the requirements for C down to 60.

This dude makes the content way harder than it needs to be. Avoid Eric like the plague.

If you weren't religious before this class, pick one and start praying.

He just write the lecture from copying the textbook without explaining. One of my classmate ask what is that mean , then he reread what he wrote at the beginning and ask , don't you understand ? We are here to learn , I know self study also important , but no one teach worse than him , his class base on pop quiz , so be ready come to class everyday