"Do you understandddddd???" Gao. Dont get on his black list...

As mentioned by other people, this guy really doesn't have practical experience. He will put everything on your head. Whatever he gives u is timeconsuming, that he doesn't understand..he will just ask you to do, esp. the useless testing projects. There are better classes and better profs out there

He gives u hell load of work! Which is not reasonable. Especially the Class Projects. It takes many many hours to finish. I agree, easy on grading but don't know how long it takes to finish the projects. He doesn't have practical experience I guess but theorywise he is ok. No clear communication.

This teacher is very unclear about requirements and material and is not very helpful when asked. He is hard to understand and likes to waste lectures talking about why students will never find a job if they don't get good grades. Exams require rote memorization not actual thought.

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This dude is sooo boring, you have to look at his comb-over to keep from completely going insane. He looses your work all of the time, so make copies of everything you turn in. The project is a joke, just go up and pretend like you know what your talking about by throwing in vocab from his lecture notes.

Very very boring class.Waste of time.Prof praises himself a lot than teaching.lot and lots of HW.An expects all stuff to be accodring to his requirements which is never ending.

Its 2011. He compares the db features in PalmPilot, Windows CE and Nokia J2ME phones. He doen't have any technical idea on the mobile revolution going on with Android and iOS. Teaches(?) with 10 yrs old slides. Most of the course content is history, market value, economics, mobile Ads, smalltalk. Complete waste of time. Horrible pointless projects.

His project is really long and tedious. I've written about 500 page of documentation on his project. You have to get lucky in his exams too. They're not easy. Homework is really long. Pray that you'll get a forgiving grader who gives you most of the points on the homework.

Professor's lectures are lengthy and boring. Slides and only slides. Paper is easy. Takes a lot of time in grading. There is no textbook for this course. He teaches from slides. If you are good with memorizing stuff. Take this class for grades. You won't learn much. He's not much of help. His voice is unclear.

This guy is just obsessed with himself. Does not stick to his plans and makes the student work on the last day before the deadlines. Is on least help and complete lack of technical knowledge

Unclear project requirement. Unclear grading criteria. Boring and useless class content. Heavy memorizing exam. Acquiesced in the cheating scheme, although he said not to. Lying about what you'd did in your final project may get higher grades.

I've made appointments to meet with him as someone who is interested in his research. But he is very unprofessional at answering emails and following through with meeting arrangements. I've been let down multiple times. It's time to look for another professor to do research under. (Graduate Student)

Did not learn even one thing in this class. Utter waste. Should have taken Paul 281.

worst professor ever. LITERALLY teaches nothing and give bad grades.

One of the worst professors at SJSU. He doesn't teach at all. All you need to do is a group project and 2 easy lab assignments. Be aware of 2 pop quizzes. The subject is cloud computing but the project he gives is a different application altogether and all you have to do is deploy on cloud which hardly take 1 hour. Complete waste of time.

Teaches Nothing. He is not interested to teach at all. Not clear grading. Don't take his class.

Worst Professor EVER

Really, really bad experience during his class. He taught pretty less things with a meaningless project. He always interrupted students' questions with no respect. Less homework, less learnable knowledge, less responsibility are the mainly description. I would not recommend anyone to take his class unless you want to dawdle

grades based on his mood. Played YouTube all the time. Got made easily and no patient. Hard to communicate

His lectures are not on topic, usually on a project that he cares about. Doesn't know how to use canvas, tests are really poorly made and the questions are either broken or impossible. Group project is really heavy, for a class I didn't learn much in I put in way too much work. He's very rude to people during demos and unreachable outside of class.

Dr. Gao is the worst teacher I have ever had. He is super egotistical and will spend half the class talking about his research in AI testing. He gives 0 instructions on how to do the project, and each deliverable report can be 70+pages. The entire semester there were a total of two lectures where he taught anything meaningful. DO NOT TAKE

Gives projects that have nothing to do with cloud. Had to make full stack web application . Useless lectures. It was a mistake taking this class.

Garbage.

All you have to do is presentations on topics that are no way relevant to cloud and a Full Stack application deployed on AWS. The classes don't cover anything relevant to cloud(other than defining seas, pass, iaas). Knowledge gained is 0 before and after taking the class.

Give out meaningless project that is good enough to waste your life. Introduce an testing tool which crashes all the time.

This professor has porn on his search bar. My classmates and I all saw it and I felt disgusted because I was similar to the demographic he was looking at. Otherwise, he gives meaningless lectures and is sometimes confused of the concept he teaches. Never posts anything on time and made us do presentations outside of class time. DO NOT TAKE!

Dr. Gao is a super funny professor, even when he didn't intend to be funny! He even pranked the class twice by having porn in both in his search history and saved as a bookmark. I thought he was very inspirational as well, especially whenever he tells the class to not be like a student, but rather like a tester! He inspired me to not go into QA.

QA is an important field in SE, but he didn't teach us any applicable skills. Didn't learn any useful testing tools or do any unit or integration testing, just manual testing. He'd yell at students and talk about their performance in front of the class. He also had porn searches on his screen and showed an interest in the Asian women in the class.

Good luck having a conversation with him about your projects. Pulls up his page on researchgate to show what he's done, useless feedback that you don't learn anything from,cant have a conversation with him, once he starts talking forget about getting a word in, cant discuss your grade with him without him going off on you.

He was one of my worst professors in my entire 6 years of education. No clear instructions and expectations. He changes his mind frequently. You can't really trust what he says. He tends to humiliate students in front of others.

This was the kind of class that made me never wear my seat belt as I drove to campus cuz i wanted to d13 before making it to his class

The man is hard to hear because he whispers his words on top of his hard Asian accent. Has a sort of condescending attitude with other students. Grading is basically binary on factors instead of how good it is. Immediately overwhelmed us with his hundreds of powerpoint slides and expects us to read them and pay attention.

The man is definitely an expert in his field, but having expertise doesn't necessarily mean they're any good at teaching it. Half of the class is spent talking about his research papers than actual class-related material

If you thought Jahan was bad, I have a surprise for you.

This guy should never be allowed to teach. Ever. He is too obsessed with his own research. The only teacher that asks you to find 5 research papers in every homework. The TAs are very useless and they grade you harshly without any feedback. When you ask them, they simply don't reply.

miserable

They might as well name this class "Introduction to Jerry Gao The Great." You will learn nothing other than him, his life, and his publications. He will assign you a useless project and if you ask him any questions, half the time he will not remember the requirements himself, and then roast you in front of the class during presentations.

One of the most egotistical professor I have ever had. Does not care about students one single bit unless they some how help with 3 companies. Impossible to learn in this class. Reuses slides from other students and pretends like it his and uses that as lecture slides. Does not answers questions when emailed. Avoid at all cost!!!

No idea how he is still allowed to teach students. No clear feedback, no clear grading, just cares about who can help him write the next papers. Roasts students during final presentations, or adds new requirements 3 days before the final project is due. Expects students to present and take finals outside scheduled times. Avoid avoid avoid.

Very disorganized and violated school policy by showing everyone's midterm grades to the whole class. Grills and humiliates students during presentations and his grading criteria is inconsistent. Publicly grilled the TA in front of the whole class and often had conflicting orders with what the TA asked on assignments.

he is hilarious, inspirational and well-respected (according to himself). That's all i learned from this course. pls delay graduation instead of taking him.

On the final exam the prof changed one of the problems without announcing it to the class. Most people only found out after the exam is over. Canvas is very disorganized, grading criteria is most of the time unclear. Literally gave requirements the day presentations are due making most groups redo their demos. Disrespectful during presentations.

Professor with lots of experience that does not care about his class. Showed class midterm grades to students, adds new project requirements on or after their due date, rude to students during presentations and when they ask questions, assignments do not match what he talks about in class. His class is an embarrassment to the department and school.

The absolute worst professor I have ever had and that's saying something. His lectures consist more of unsolicited career advice than actual course material. Basically zero guidance is given for assignments and they are not graded lightly. Avoid at all costs.

Absolute worst professor. Combined class with grad students who are taking CMPE287. If they are basically the same class shouldn't we be credited with the grad course credit? Favoritism is very obvious towards the grad students, cheating rampantly on the final and midterm but no consequences. Let's not overlook he had p*rnhub tab open in class too.

If you are reading this, count yourself lucky! DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS