One of the worst professors I ever had. Avoid him at all costs.

Avoid him at all cost. Toxic professor.

This man does not care about his students and is unqualified to teach this course. Additionally, he does not care about grades and will not curve the class even if all the test averages are below 70.

Does not understand course material and frequently makes mistakes in answering questions.

He thinks his class is useful, but it is very pedantic and not really that practical or relevant. The 'proofs' are not proofs in any sense of the word, and you are docked points for not following their exact solution, even if your proof makes sense.

Iliano is the least caring professor on the face of the planet. He thinks that curves are only in place to accommodate for mediocre students. However, there are other factors like tough tests and terrible teachers.

Course material was good, class was horrible. Written assignments were a guessing game of "What does Iliano want?" Not fun. Did better after not going to lecture. :(

Resources isn't as helpful as previous programming classes. Classes could be made much more interesting. Explanations are not clear sometimes.

One of the worst professors I've ever had. Does not care about students and gives poor lectures, meaning you have to read the lecture notes to understand the material. Ever since he took over 122, the course became a disaster. Really wish SCS would find a new professor since he clearly has no idea what he's doing.

If you want to do well in written homework... you'd better be good at guessing what iliano wants you to do.

Tests do not accurately reflect understanding of the material, but rather just challenges how fast you can read and solve random problems. Not particularly nice to students. Every year he self praises his class and attributes the number of CS graduates employed at google to the fact that his class isn't curved. My least favorite professor

Has completely taken all the fun out of learning computer science. Although the course content is important, it is taught in a way that doesn't show its practicality, which makes it a huge slog to the end. The things we learn at the beginning of the course suddenly become moot when we transition to learning a new language at the end.

Avoid at all costs if possible. Really unsupportive and does not really care about students.

Literally the worst. Absolute Garbage. Cannot tell you enough avoid his course (15122) at all costs, and only take it if it's absolutely necessary (required by your major).

Literally the worst and most disgustingly rude Professor at this entire university. Refused to help me during office hours. Course material is also unnecessary and just so entirely dumb. Avoid him at all costs, even if it means taking it during the summer and paying extra. No idea why he hasnt been fired yet.

DO NOT TAKE HIS COURSE. Iliano was hands down the most uncaring and straight up mean-spirited professors I have ever had. He goes out of his way to humiliate and degrade his students. He caused me to have a full blown panic attack in the bathroom of Gates

Quite possibly one of the worst professors I've ever had at CMU. If this class isn't a requirement for you, do not take it. If it is, grind on the homeworks because you will do miserably on all the exams.

RRRRRRUUUUUUNNNNNNN

I genuinely liked the material, although I didnt get the best grade I liked what the class was about. However, the Professor made it hell. Where do I start, from telling me I dont know anything about coding and wont get any internships to telling me I have dumb questions. Id get humiliated every time and cry after OH with him. Avoid this class!

Class content's great, but the lecture, homework, and exams are just not designed for you to understand even you know the concepts and study a lot.

He is the worst professor I have ever met.

The most intimidating professor I've had at CMU. Not easy to approach. Randomly accuses people (not me though) of cheating. I'd say his lectures were generally good though. I liked the way he explained certain topics. If you skip lecture often, at least try to go to the binary search one, cause it's probably the most interesting lecture.

Just not a good lecturer. I complete this course by notes and attending recitations.

Hard and infamous for no curve

The class material itself is hard, and he doesn't really make it any better. You will feel like you are constantly humiliated.

It's not his fault. It's my fault

For the first midterm, he'd rather change the marking rubric and let TA mark all over again than curving. He made the course so hard that it is an emotional damage. I heard from all of my friends that you can spend all time studying and still get a B. Iliano says 15122 is hard because it gets you prepared for 15213 but it is way too hard.

Really bad professor. He doesnt care about his students at all. Its like he gets an ego boost about his course if the students are struggling. Would not recommend

Too many hws, heavy exams, heavy course

I took 15-122 as the very first CS introductory class at CMU. The assignments had little to no rampups, and the tests were brutal. The "curve is bad for you" mentality invented by Iliano and the merciless grading policies made me question if all CS classes are like this. The answer is no. Just know you are doing great no matter what grade you get.

he is so nice!

horrible teacher.

I've tried to talk to Prof. Iliano a few times, and every time I did I just felt worse; He was very condescending and never really answered my questions, but just made me feel dumb. Prof. Dilsun is not like this however: she takes time to help and is very caring. The class is hard but just push through and focus on learning and you'll be ok.

I went to one of his office hours in the beginning of the year to ask about material we had just learned and never went again. He was condescending and just referred me to a recitation that had not yet occurred. If you do take the class, I would probably wait for recitations on Friday to clear up any misunderstandings.

He cares so much to his students.

Horrible professor, doesn't care about his students, doesn't have any leniency in grading, and makes his midterms impossibly difficult.

bad professor.

he is no nice

Deffo a meme. S-tier material.

Finals was 60+ pages

Generational trauma @ CMU

this course is so great

You are better off skipping lectures and reading the notes yourself.

He is the complete opposite of the tags I chose. I had to leave campus for a sports event (varsity), so it's pretty important. But he chooses to not give us any extensions or any sort of help even though we do not have the same resources as on campus. He needs to treat his students the way he wants to be treated.

He is cruel to his students. Extremely long exams and homeworks. He expects us to just learn basically everything on our own because he does not do it in lecture.

Lectures were hard to get through, exams even harder, and homework is really tedious too.

He is cruel in office hours and does not really help much.

He makes me stay up until 2 AM just because of HOMEWORK when I am a athlete and need to wake up early in the morning. Don't even get me started on the exams.

All of these reviews are right. He is not a great professor and is very harsh to students.

Very rude & condescending

This was not only conceptually difficult, but also very tedious. It truly was one of the hardest classes I took.

Just a terrible professor

His accent is so thick

Just bad

Grrrrrr Iliano is the worst

Apparently he makes the tests harder each year, which just messes everybody up. He is a terrible professor

He is very unrealistic with what he expects from his students.

His tests are so hard and he blames us for not doing well when there are 400 kids and does not take the blame himself.

So much time and so hard

Very inconvenient deadlines

He is just so annoying. He thinks he's cool but he's not

Has insanely high standards and is extremely strict

Just terrible

He probably has a low EQ as he always talks in a condescending manner, even in lecture and OH.

This course has been miserable. Do not take 15122 unless you absolutely have to, and if you do prepare to for a semester of pain.

I heard that he made the course easier where writtens are less valued in the course. However, the past semesters have struggled...

He's honestly abrasive and doesn't care about his students. Sticks out like a sore thumb in the SCS faculty.

He's honestly so bad, please avoid taking him at all costs. He doesn't teach you anything - you have to teach yourself whatever is to be expected, and everyone in the class agrees upon this consensus. He is also one of the least empathetic people I've ever met. He literally said he doesnt care if your family or pet dies - your hw is still due.

made me cry in the 6th floor gates bathrooms after oh

Probably the worst professor I've had at CMU. If possible, avoid him for 122, he does not care about his students and is completely unapproachable. Decent lecturer but that doesn't make up for how condescending and awful he is in person. Save yourself from a mountain of unnecessary stress if you can.

Unnecessarily difficult for what the course is. Wording of the questions are incredibly confusing for no reason. Absolutely tragic.

no bueno para estudiar con iliano. le recomiendo que toca anne

Just not a good guy nor a professor

I don't really find him very useful, since the writeups for some of the practice problems are just not worded in a way that an average person can understand them.

really generous for giving out As, which A stands for AIV

Dont take his course unless you have to

Bad prof avoid at all costs

Avoid him by all means. He is not understanding of students situations, both financially and emotionally. Personally I did not have issues but so many of my classmates had issues because he required students to get a tablet when they couldn't afford it. In terms of teaching he clearly thinks he has gods gift, but he does not, he is just rude.

Doesn't respect his students. I never went to his lectures so I don't know so much about his teaching.

Iliano lacks any care towards his students

I genuinely believe that this professor is evil. He actively searches for students who are cheating, and you can get falsely accused and you will get a NEGATIVE 100 score on that assignment. The line to get an appeal takes over a semester because so many people are accused. Highly highly avoid this professor if you can.

anyone who left a good review is lying

Iliano has designed 122 in an evil manner, taking the minimum grade of your weekly quizzes and your programming projects for 72% of your grade.that means all my programming projects, well over 50 hours of work this sem. will have been for nothing. Iliano is evil and has no regard for his students effort. Good luck if you ever take 122.

Illiano is literally trying not to be a human with his new grading criteria. A lot of people had to drop the class because 72% of your final grade is based on min (weekly quizzes, homework). His class average may seem a little reasonable because all the Cs and some low Bs dropped, so the ones remaining are just As and high Bs competing.

I don't want to study cs anymore after taking his 15122 in spring.

No class at CMU has made me feel this terrible ever in my life. Every week, it feels like a boulder is resting on your shoulders but will never fall off unless it just crushes you. This class made me burnout so quickly that I'm rethinking my major and future plans since I've never put in so much work into something just to get nothing back.

I am friends with TAs who have given me info on Iliano's grading system. It's designed to punish students cheating with AI, but it instead makes the course weigh 97% on in-class quizzes and the final exam, with our long homeworks being worth 0%. The average looks good, but it's because so many people already know these topics or dropped the course.

Genuinely Prof Iliano needs to read the questions on Ed. Whenever someone asks a completely reasonable question about content on an assignment/upcoming weekly quiz, he always says something like "read it more closely" even when the question is reasonable and it's clear that "reading it more closely" or "thinking about it more" isn't going to help.

THE WORST PROF EVER

Very Harsh

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Avoid this professor if you value your GPA and sanityThey are incredibly unorganized, and the syllabus is more of a suggestion than a rule. Assignments are graded based on arbitrary criteria that aren't mentioned in the prompts, and feedback is non-existent.

Taking this class felt like paying thousands to be gaslit twice a week. The professor doesn't teach—they walk in, read a dated PowerPoint in a monotone, and call it a lecture. When I asked about a grade, I got a blank stare. If you like confusion and teaching yourself via 2 a.m. YouTube, this is the prof for you.