2.5
Quality2.7
Difficulty24%
Would Retake94
Reviews24%
Would Retake
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Reviews
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What Students Say
“I thought he was a terrible boring teacher”
CSC111 - 1.0 rating“Tried to engage us by doing student demonstrations”
CSC11 - 4.0 ratingClass Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
11%
Textbook Required
48%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
B+
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Declining
-0.91 avg changeRatings by Course
SENG480
4.3
(3)520
4.0
(1)SENG420
3.8
(6)SENG450
3.0
(1)CSC405
3.0
(3)Difficulty by Course
CSC586
3.0
SENG265
2.9
CSC111
2.9
CSC405
2.7
CSC11
2.7
Reviews (94)
could not be any more boring if his life depended on it. puts you to sleep fast
Could not be more unorganized. Numerous mistakes in class slides and midterms.
So boring, half the class skipped or was asleep. Not helpful.
Yes he will put you to sleep in 10 minutes but material is easy - get his slides
Yeah he's boring but he's an easy A+!
his notes are all over the place, but the tests are decent
Ok... boring as hell... he's got one tone
Hausi Rules!
Hausi is fine, people are just being wimps. Easy marks. Says Java like Jawa .
Easy assignments but need to write alot for midterms and finals to do well
HOLLY TIME TO GO TO SLEEP THIS GUY IS BORING MONO TONE
Great Prof, tremendous knowledge level.
wow, watching a guy take 80% of class time fixing notes is so not cool
Wimps? I paid money and got nothing from him except a mark. What a ripoff.
He makes some stupid obvious point, and then pauses for effect. what a tool!
Knows the material, but pisses away time. Was not on time for class once!
wacky guy but classes are slow.
His assignments were way too long. He was fine as a teacher. Kind of boring. He also covered material in the class at least twice each time he went over it. Fine if you need more coverage. The book doesn't really seem to fit with what he's teaching.
Gives good tests and assignments, always fair marking. But the textbook was more exciting.
This course if very helpful. He covered many important and up to date materials. Lots of understanding and thinking in this course. Dr.Muller listens to student's suggestion and very flexible. Take it.
One of the worst instructors I've had. Spends way too much time on really basic stuff then glosses over the more difficult material. He said on the first day that only material covered in class would be testable, then later announces that we're responsible for chapters that weren't covered.
he is a gem of a person, very generous, very cooperative, very flexible, very understading, has a lot of knowledge, does not have those airs professors usually have, down to earth, easy on students, feel free to ask him questions, very encouraging, speaks slowly and lectures are boring though.
He isn't concise. His slides are ridiculously long and boring. Lectures are very boring. Assignments are easy, pointless and unchallenging. All you do is implement algorithms that have been done to death. But that's it, no problems to solve using the algorithms. Did I mention that he's really boring. Implementations on his slides had faults.
I will admit that Hausi's slides are not the most clear at times but. That being said, he is quite possibly the nicest, most forgiving and helpful prof I have ever met.Hours before the final exam...he spent 30-45 minutes going through the material and quizzing me and two others with my flash cards, how many profs do you know that would do that?
beauty
This man is a saint. A gift from god to mold young minds such as ours. He a "The Haus". Long live this glorious man.
Great guy
the haul is great,
Prof. Muller is incredibly knowledgeable about software engineering. Even though he was teaching a required first year course, he never gave the impression that he was uninterested. His clear communication and willingness to answer questions was outstanding. Easily my favorite professor this term
Great prof, knowledgeable and is incredibly passionate about the subject matter. Was always willing to answer any questions, examples and explanations were clear.
The best person I have ever met on this Earth!
Hausi was great. He might not be the easiest to understand in the begining, but you can really feel the passion he has for his work. He even made me consider software engineering, which i had before never thought of. He has very easy midterms if you do your work. I really enjoyed him
boring slides, boring teacher, boring course: based on knowledge of C language not how to use it. We didn't do any real programming. Mistakes on slides and tests - worst tests. Felt like I was cheated.
Well organized delivery - not much teaching
For someone who didn't do any programming prior, this class was super easy. The midterms were easy, quizes were ok if you studied. His lectures were really dry, he just goes over ppt slides with examples of code on them. Its better to just skip the lecture and sleep in, then look at the slides when you're studying.
Seems like a very nice guy, my major issue with him was the fact that his lectures were incredibly dull, and he literally just read his slides word for word, which I could do on my own time, as they're all on Moodle. The difficulty curve of the assignments is quite steep, unless you have someone to help you.
Lectures were dry because he just read his slides and was monotonous. However, he was clear in his lectures and what was on the final and midterms was expected.
Hausi was great at making each class an experience. I actually didn't expect a teacher with so much experience in the field to care so much about this class. The class requires a lot of time and he was one of the few in our CS dept. very willing to help. I highly recommend him.
He has a small accent that is easy to understand, course material is straight forward, course is weighted nicely so you can get a decent mark even if you don't do well on the midterms, and the midterms and final are fair.
Boring lectures, not worth attending later on in the semester. some lectures can be helpful though at the beginning. but you will still have a high chance of dozing off. put minimal to almost no effort into this course and still passed. look over previous midterms because he uses almost the same questions on recent ones. it saved my life
I thought he was a terrible boring teacher. If you drank 3 cups of coffee in the class there was a 50% chance you wouldn't fall asleep. He is a very smart man but sucks at keeping you interested and just reads off his own slides!
Very boring teacher. Wanted to fall asleep or be doing something else during the entire lecture. Tried to engage us by doing student demonstrations. I think it may be the accent that bores everyone. Students had either already programmed and found the class a breeze or had never programmed and struggled. Tests contained untaught material.
can''t understand what he said it''s better to learn by yourself .
HE IS HORRIBLE.
I enjoyed having Hausi as my prof. Smart man, and has a certain level of care for students (even in such a basic programming class) that I haven't often seen from profs so experienced in their field. Lectures can be long and boring sometimes, but if you don't understand somethingzone out, he's always ready to help you out afterwards.
Lectures are dry sometimes, could use a little more enthusiasm. When asked for help, will help you achieve your answer. Nice guy, but could work on presentation skills.
He was a great teacher! Definitely inspired me to go further into computer science and software engineering. He is a bit hard to understand, and the lectures were long. He takes a slow approach towards teaching (as opposed to rushing) which I found helpful, especially because it was my first exposure to computer science. I'd take him again for sure
Cool guy, lectures are a bit boring but his explanations are all clear.
Assignments suck.
I'm sure he's a great guy, but you can't teach coding from PowerPoint, especially to a first-year class where some people have never coded before in their life. The only time I ever understood anything was when the TA taught the class and I ended up learning the material from my roommate. The assignments are pointless and long. Take Bill Bird!
Terrible prof, poor explanations and hard to follow. Just reads off slides and offers no hands on examples.
Hausi is the GOAT
To be honest, the man is a sweetheart; biggest meme you'll meet. However, he is not the greatest teacher, which is understandable when you're teaching programming fundamentals after many years of being active in the field. Wish i could give him a higher grade because i think he has swag to pass out, but his teaching is mediocre. Would recommend.
Reads off slides, doesn't really make an effort to teach in the lectures, midterms are similar to the past ones you can study off of, if you take him, you'll have to do a lot of learning on your own.
I don't have much good to say about Hausi. The templates he creates for assignments are always useless for the assignments (filled with errors and bad code). This on top of the fact that the lectures are really boring and not educational made him one of my least favourite profs. If you have to opportunity to take Bill Bird do so!
Lectures aren't worth going to as he talks in the most monotone voice about a power point presentation that goes on about the wonders about the internet, expecting you to somehow learn the material from that. You will have to teach yourself everything via a long, boring textbook. Take Bill Bird's class, you might actually learn something.
CSC 111 didn't seem like a beginner programming class and wasn't organized well. The former is not directly the Professor's fault, while the latter was. He taught using slides and could put anyone to sleep; he repeated himself a lot which turned out to be boring, not useful; instructions he gave were littered with mistakes; it was over complicated.
His lectures are boring and hard to concentrate. His assignments are helpful. He is not helping though. I often had to learn things myself.
Hausi is an intelligent man with many great accolades; however, his ability/motivation to engage students and properly instruct those without coding experience is lackluster. He reads of lecture slides, and assignment templates are usually broken. This class was very unorganized. Not super hard, but very frustrating.
The stuff he teaches in classes are not the same things he expects us to use in assignments ... hate having to write a blog every one or two weeks
Hausi Mueller is a very knowledgable person with a lot of experience but his inability to explain concepts in class makes his class not worthy of taking. He is very boring in class and just reads the slides. other than that, he tries to create interest in the minds of students by sometimes showing off some internet video at the end of his class.
I would rather have my dig sucked by a duck than take any of his course again. NO means NO!
Terrible for 1st year students. Expects you to know everything. Heavily dependent on the book. Teaches programming using slides and doesn't show much examples in class.
He is a good professor and has a lot of knowledge about the subject. Nice person also.
Must boring lectures I have ever had, slept through most of them. Even though I completely understood all the concepts before even taking the class, half the time in class I had no idea what he was talking about.
Horrible..... Lectures were terrible. Dry and boring at best. Mundane examples and an overall all attitude of not caring. Material on quizzes were gone over after the quiz was finished??? Assignments unclear. Had to email TA's multiple times, this would end up in so many changes in the assignment. Overall a horrible experience in thisclass
His test are all trick questions not actually testing your knowledge
Unfortunately, while an excellent researcher and great in 1 on 1 discussion, his idea of a computer science lecture teaching C involves exclusive usage of a premade powerpoint (which he repeats the same slides from last class for the first half of each lecture), and writing code on the chalkboard. Very much a self-taught class.
Prof expected us to read a lot but I got more from stack overflow and 5 minute youtube tutorials. This is the class that about 6 students really like and the rest are bored out of their minds. Unless you're one of those 6, this is the class you'll do your homework in or just skip altogether because the power point slides go online.
doesn't read his own assignments doesn't read his own labs doesn't make his own slides doesn't answer any questions puts kids in candy jars talks in 0.25 speed in a romantic relationship with quantum computing talks too close to the computer is a man child not Taylor Swift props republican overall a threat to my sanity
Hausi is not a bad prof, lots of people really don't like him. seng265 is a self guided course, that was said early on, he gave plenty of resources to learn from. Test coverage was well outlined, and they were open book. Assignments were large but always doable, lots of time. Overall, a fine course, I learned something, slides could be better.
Professor Muller put what I would call minimal effort into teaching this course. All of his lecture slides looked like he had made them 20 minutes before the lecture and very few examples were given. He also seemed to have unloaded most of the work relating to the assignments onto a TA, meaning it would take months for assignments to be returned.
All class content was fair and a high grade is attainable if the effort is put in. Assignments, tests, and labs were fair. Although if you have questions or concerns about anything, ask in-person or in real time, do not wait for a reply through email, as this can take from a couple of days to weeks.
SENG 265 is a self-guided course that requires your own motivation to study. That being said, you need to google a lot on your own to retain more new knowledges. However, the course structure is poorly designed but Hausi provides plenty of resources to students Tests are reasonable if you are willing to study, and be sure start assignment early.
He is very passionate about computer science, learning, and teaching. However, he isn't the best lecturer. The course is taught by two other lecturers and he focused on the history of the topic. Overall he is a good professor but could improve on the coherency of the course material.
Hausi gets a bad rep & I don't get it. He's not the best lecturer but it's clear he cares about students. Lectures are posted online & streamed on Zoom, along with labs. Midterms are online & if you're prepared, fairly straightforward. The course is well organized & emails were always replied to. I'd happily take a quantum computing class with him.
Horrible communications. Completely ignored every email I sent throughout the semester. Assignments were boring and arduous. This class is a joke and yet they go on about how "important" it is. Very low effort. Only go to lecture if u feel like listening to him brag about his qualifications in quantum physics and read crappy slides. pathetic
It's stated that Hausi's SENG265 is a "self taught course" where a majority of the learning is done by yourself. But then, what am I paying Hausi for? For full price you're paying for: useless lectures, mediocre slides, assignments that require major time investment to complete, and easy tests. To take Hausi is to pay ~$600 to be tested. That's it.
SENG265 was interesting, and the assignments and tests were fair. However, Dr. Muller's lectures are a bit of a mess. His slides are cluttered and redundant, and his lectures are disorganized, often covering content irrelevant to the course. One class, we did nothing for 15 minutes as he tried to figure out how to unmute himself on Zoom.
He never replied to emails. Not even familiar with his own slides if those were his own slides. I felt the TA was even teaching better than him. I didn't feel any enthusiasm for teaching from this person at all.
Terrible prof. Very unprofessional
As others mentioned, he has no interest in teaching and it shows. He is barely accessible outside of class, and hopeless when it comes to organizational or technological skills. I didn't find the course particularly difficult, but I wasn't impressed at the delivery.
The worst learning experience by far.
His slides are basically entirely AI generated, he does not respond to emails, and does not show up to office hours virtually or in person.. Terrible prof. His exams are really easy, but assignments can be tough since he does not teach the language. Learn C/python beforehand if you have a heavy schedule. Take this class with literally anyone else.
Barely accessible outside class. Never replies to any emails.
The course was well structured but the lectures were not engaging at all. You can tell he is actually passionate about what he does, which does make the course a bit better.
This guy is a joke, he cant write a loop in C to save his life, bro used AI to fix an error that a highschooler would have noticed and fixed. unorganized, disorganized and a waste of a class. worst part: its an actually important course thats taught using AI.
Very poor instructor for SENG 265. He has never responded to any emails and does not show up to his own office hours. The entire course is taught using AI, very disappointing, as it is hard to learn anything from the course as a result. I really wish I had taken it with a different prof.
It is wrong to teach a class using AI and expect students to be motivated to learn. When asked for advice, this prof tells you to ‘ask ChatGPT.' His lecture slides are a mess, the majority of which are screenshots of GenAI conversations. The adequacy of a prof is subjective; however, this teaching style is objectively lazy and immoral. Avoid.
I've heard that this is an important class, and some of my friends said it was great with the instructer last semester, Roberto Bittencourt. I wish I took it then, because I think I would have learned a lot. As is, with this prof, I learned absolutely NOTHING. He just kept talking about we should use AI to learn. 6 people show up to lecture now.
For a class that is supposed to teach concepts used for the rest of your degree I sure didn't learn a lot.... The entire class is basically taught using GenAI - open book midterms which is nice but closed book final which you are required to get at least a 50% on to pass the course (which is scary to go into when you have had to freestyle the sem)
Sent him 3 emails, and I never got a single response. The whole class was GenAI (including his slides) with no practice finals given. Communication of the structure and content of the final was unclear and disorganized. Multiple assignments were extended with little notice or reason. TLDR: Not a good prof take this course with ANYONE else
As everyone else has said, this was meant to be an important course for kicking off peoples degrees but he's constantly going over the same useless topics. Towards the end he was complaining that nobody was coming to class. Find any software engineering textbook burn it and smell the fumes, you will learn more than you will by taking his class.
Hausi is like what a motel 7 is to a four seasons
Class Info
Online Classes
100%
Attendance Mandatory
11%
Textbook Required
48%
Grade Predictor
Your expected effort level
Predicted Grade
B+
Grade Distribution
Common Tags
Rating Trend
Declining
-0.91 avg changeRatings by Course
SENG480
4.3
(3)520
4.0
(1)SENG420
3.8
(6)SENG450
3.0
(1)CSC405
3.0
(3)Difficulty by Course
CSC586
3.0
SENG265
2.9
CSC111
2.9
CSC405
2.7
CSC11
2.7