He says, "It's a great day for computer science" everyday when it's clearly not. He gets every single thing wrong and doesn't know computer science. Our students always correct him. He has too much pride in his PHD degree which I clearly don't know how he got cause he sucks at computer science. He probably got it in another subject.

Before I took this class, I thought I loved systems programming and wanted to go to grad school for it. After this class, I never want to touch C again. Instructions for the group projects were unclear and contradictory, and we did not get feedback for the last two assignments until the end of the semester. Exams were open-ended and tangent-based.

assignment descriptions are so convoluted it's insane, he's (kinda) funny but doesn't explain stuff well, responds to questions horribly, takes forever to grade(seriously, 2 months into the course we had 0 grades). time-consuming assignments up until the last day. take someone else

Terrible at explaining concepts and put material on the midterm that he hadn't even taught yet. He went over that material after the midterm. You're better off self-teaching yourself than going to lecture.

He will not tell you what test cases your code needs to run on. Although class is not mandatory, he will state certain things only during class. He will not explain how the code is supposed to function in depth. Assignments depend on previous ones, so if you couldn't do the previous one, then you will not be able to finish the current assignment.

This was the poorest ran class I have ever taken. There is literally zero structure to the course. The assignments are always filled with mistakes which aren't resolved until late. No grades for months . Honestly the professor is in his own world and doesn't understand the way he handles the course is causing stress to his students.

Lied multiple times about dates we would receive grades. Unaware of his actions: During tests would make jokes while students were cramming to finish, he would type things on the screen stating facts like the percentage of code similarity among the class like that's something you really want to know about while doing his impossible tests.

He slacks on his lectures and then expects you to have expert knowledge and write these heavy code projects which make up 50% of your grade. Wouldn't recommend. Take Andrew Tjang if you can. Heard he was awesome.

I have had the 'pleasure' of having him for three different classes within the Computer Science curriculum. He is an absolute brutal teacher. He spends more time horsing around during lecture than teaching and he is overlaps his graduate level class slides with undergrad classes. There is nothing favorable or honorable about this guy. Avoid.

Simple material, but he simply cannot teach. Had to rely on Youtube videos for 90% of his lecture material. Messes around way too much in lecture.

The prof. knows the subject, however, his teaching is completely unorganized. Assignments were filled with mistakes and some were never taught on how to do them. He put things on the exam that were taught after they were taken, first grades were received after 3 months(last month of class), and his lectures are very unfocused.

He relies heavily on lectures to spread any useful knowledge, but it is impossible to acquire this knowledge elsewhere. By this I mean if he explains that to complete your current project you need to use "this function", you have no way of knowing that any other way than from him. Avoid this teacher at all costs.a

This was the worst experience I have ever had in a classroom. This experience actually ended my pursuit of a cs degree at Rutgers. It was impossible to complete assignments as a result of the lack of structure this professor had in class. He had not started any real material until three weeks into class and an assignment was due already. Avoid!

If you don't take notes in class, you're screwed. Seriously, this guy posts his notes after class, but it's like trying to decipher hieroglyphics. He can make people laugh in class sometimes, but it's not funny when midterms are in 2 weeks and you have no idea what to study. He also announces his submission criteria in-class 3 hours before its due.

CSV sorters, unclear project descriptions, unreasonably strict grading for exams and TAs who consistently grade your project wrong are what you get with this class. Prepare to email TAs and the professor regularly. The content isn't hard, it's made hard through the unorganized nature of the professor and TAs themselves. I regret taking this class.

Never take this professor's class, he is really unorganized everything, I really wish never see him again, one of the poorest professors in CS, RUtgers! Remember never take his class!

Although seemingly funny, actually unorganized, unreliable professor, really regret to take his course.

Think he's slick ripping off his students. Has managed to screw up every single grading rubric on all 4 projects. Gives false information during office hours. Somehow manages to blame the TAs for his "worst semester in 20 years". School only keeps him for his IQ-too bad his IQ doesn't stop him from being the biggest mistake in the CS department.

Francisco has this sort of God-Complex where he thinks he's the Savior of the Computer Science Department when in actuality everyone just thinks of him as an incompetent NEET who's degrees have long expired.

If you value your sanity, don't.

I had him for OS(416) and it was my worst experience in all of Rutgers. If you can, avoid at all costs. His lectures are long, dry, and soft-spoken. Decent slides? That's about the nicest thing I can give him. His assignments and exams are completely unreasonable. The final in particular was asking about space stations. in a comp sci class

This professor is notorious here. He is good at making jokes, but his lecture , homework and exam are also jokes. When you ask him questions, he always ignore your specific question, and try to tell you his stroy, which is really annoying and confusing. Anyway, avoid him.

There are too many problems to outline in the few characters that I have so I will touch on the worst one which is the lack of useful slides to learn from outside of lecture. I would have much preferred having actual content on slides or text files rather than just a list of terms that I have to google and teach myself what they mean/do.

Avoid this man at all costs, you will walk out of every lecture not learning anything new every single time. You're basically teaching yourself at this point. He's a smart guy and knows what he's talking about but he legitimately cannot teach. The good thing about him is his personality isnt bad I guess? Just avoid.

Worst professor at Rutgers. If you dare to take his class, you're in for a wild ride. Useless notes, unclear guidelines, ignores student questions, and GRADING TAKES ABSOLUTELY FOREVER. He's pretty inconsiderate when you think of all that he demands from us as students vs what he gives us as a professor. AVOID.

Worst CS professor taken in Rutgers. Boring lectures, uselessnotes, confusing assignment guidlines. Did not learn anything useful from this class. AVOID.

Terrible, just terrible. Avoid this man at all costs. Let's just say that I didn't know my grade even after taking the final and i can't even approximate where im standing. Projects are so vague and TAs aren't any help.

THE MOST UNPROFESSIONAL PROFESSOR EVER. There was a transition to remote instruction is the middle of the semester and after that things get atrocious. NEVER reads piazza, NEVER replies emails, and NEVER gives out a grade for a past project. The semester has already ended and we don't even know our grade for a assignment given out two months ago.

Good lecturer, awful at everything else. Gives vague project directions. Messed up the testcases and had to not count some in the end. Takes an OBSCENELY long time to grade projects. Grades projects incorrectly until asked for a regrade. Teaches FALSE things, e.g. "realloc is unreliable" that are easily verified to be untrue w/ Google! AVOID!

Pretty decent guy. Terrible professor. If ur taking 214 get ready to spend 90% of your time on the projects that youre going to ask for a regrade for anyway because they are poorly graded. Wack ass TAs and management of the course too

Francisco is easily the worst professor at Rutgers. I have unfortunately taken him for 3 separate classes (due to scheduling). His ego is a problem despite a lot of his knowledge on the CS he teaches being from the 90's and he clearly doesn't keep up. In his class its his way or no way, he refuses to work with students and takes no responsibility.

If I had a choice I would not have taken this class but Francisco was the only professor teaching systems programming. I have learned that Francisco is a terrible teacher. His lectures are bland, complicated, and uninteresting. Your assignments, exams, and projects aren't graded till 2 days after the semester ends. He is also very pretentious.

He is a smart guy and knowledgeable but he is not a good prof. We were supposed to have 5 programming assignments but he only gave us 3. Even though programming was 50% of the grade. Assignments were very hard. I asked him to open previous quizzes to study for finals and he said "I don't want you to see the right answers. " AVOID HIM !!!!

Probably the worst CS professor. Projects and assignments were worded VERY POORLY. Lecture were okay. Would make major projects and homework assignments due on the same day. Very annoying about extensions when everyone needed one citing the next assignment would come out the following day, but never did. Came out two weeks later.Avoid at all costs.

An unorganized terrible teacher doesn't provide any study guides or practice exams, his lecture notes are horrific. Also, the dude is left in the early 2000s he needs an update.

I did not enjoy my time with Professor Francisco. His quirkiness made it very difficult to interact with him and ask questions to him. He gave an exam everybody struggled on. The only reason I am not doing bad in his class was because I self studied C before attending lecture. I have not learned anything from hhim.

Very bad

Less work and cool guy, but he is so disorganized. He did not put in the final grades into Canvas or tell us what the grade cutoffs are but he did put in grades into the transcript, I don't even know what I got on my final. These good reviews were written by him. If you like going crazy over your grades and worrying during the holidays, take him!