Want an easy class? You're set. Want to learn something? Good luck. Prof has too much other stuff going on in his life, and little regard or motivation for teaching the class. Class is an unending tangential discussion. This format may work for some profs (ala Leidig) but fails in this instance. The class is just not a priority for him.

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He's a nice guy but- I didn't learn anything more than I already knew, which was barely enough to get me through the class. I highly do not reccomend.

Wish we IS majors could avoid taking this guy. His lectures are interesting sometimes but only about 30% of the stuff he talks about is on the exams. He gives no study guides, doesn't write anything on the board. Basically his exams are rediculus, but everything else is easy. I didn't really learn anything from this class.

Maybe the worst professor i have ever had. He seems like a good buy, but he is just not helpful and very lazy. Did not have any assignments graded going into the final, and his tests are VERY hard. Lecture is useless as he just rambles on and uses car analogies.

I do NOT recommend this professor. He has this ego about him where students are almost insignificant and stupid compared to him. What he taught in lecture didn't relate to what we did in lab - his clarity is significantly lacking as well. Avoid him if you can.

I agree with all of the previous negative comments. He doesn't really teach the material but expects you to know the book front and back. The tests are so hard they are probably written by the textbook author. He may know what he's talking about but only uses abbreviations that you don't know to explain things.

Not a good prof at all. Exams are impossible. Studied SO hard for the final, got a D-. Most of the students failed. Ended up with a B in the class, but if I could redo it I would choose a different prof.

Reynolds is a decent teacher, but a terrible professor. His tests have materials that he didnt even cover in class because he was always too busy chatting with the nerds in class. I would strongly recommend studying from the textbook website; the website offered more teaching instruction than the actual prof. ever did. Labs were not even useful.

Wow, it was bad. He doesn't come to class with anything prepared, so he just flips through the book talking for the ENTIRE class. I had one of the best grades in the class and it was still only in the 70s.

It seems he doesn't put much effort into preparing any sort of comprehensive lecture notes, but rather he flips through the book and focuses on random tidbits that he found interesting in the eighties. While attending office hours is helpful, the assigned projects lack any sort of descriptive requirements so it's hard to do them "correctly."

Dr. Reynolds is kind of a smart alec. I felt dumb for asking questions in his class. He expects you to just understand the difficult concepts he requires for tests, projects, and quizzes. He simply facilitates the class and goes over information because he has to. Otherwise, you're on your own in this class.

If you really enjoy teaching yourself everything there is to know about computers, then you should take this class. If not, the I suggest finding a professor who actually teaches you something. There are five point quizzes over 40 page chapters, as well as, two exams and a project. Good luck.

For accounting majors this class is suggested as an elective, but forget it and take something else. It's hard and creating the huge project has no relevance on anything for our career. Even after studying for hours for the exams I'd end up with a C, and I'm a 4.0 student. He has no organization and STRESS is the equivalent to this class.

I've never written on here before or have filled out a prof eval until John. Horrible, horrible, horrible. If you want a condescending prof who talks about himself more than lecture and expects you to be him while answering questions, good luck! Read the book, go to lecture, you still won't get an A! Put things into perspective, I'm an A student.

Professor Reynold is a nice guy, but this class was a waste. He assigned way too long of papers, on pointless topics. Group project wasn't too bad, although it was a waste and didn't learn anything. Exams were all online and some were open book. The class sucks overall, take someone else if possible

This professor is not helpful at all. When you have questions about an assignment the only response he will give is a page number from the book. The amount of homework is outrageous. SO. MUCH. HOMEWORK. I would not recommend this professor.

Prof. Reynolds is... difficult. For a non-SWS course, there is a ton of writing. A total of 3 papers that combine for about 20 pages and at least 1 page paper per homework assignment make up this class. The tests are impossible, with the highest grades in the class being around 75%. Boosts grades at the end of the years though. Still not great.

Reynolds is clearly very qualified for teaching CS and CIS classes but he struggles with being empathetic towards his students, assignments are unnecessarily long and tests are long and difficult. CIS 230 is an intro computer class and if you didnt have prior general knowledge about computers you will not pass this class. He can be nice and mean.

Hardest class ever. The amount of work that is due is insane. Pretty much if you don't go to office hours you're screwed. Took so much of my time up. He barely wants to help you half the time. Don't EVER take a course from him.

I almost feel like Professor Reynolds is far too passionate for an introductory course. Because he has lots of experience with hardware and software, it is very easy for him to talk to us intro students like we do too. He will tell us a lot of entirely useless information regarding test content. He needs to reduce the depth of his intro classes.

He just reads off of the slides. Going to class is a waste of time. If you are stuck with him I recommend taking his once-a-week class and not the 3 times a week class. He doesn't teach what is covered in the assignments, just about a VBA project that is not applicable in real life. Overall, save your time and find a different prof

Reynolds definitely tries to be jovial in class, but that feels like salt on wounds if you're frustrated with the class. If he continues with his current teaching path, just use the student resource videos in the course materials to guide you through assignments. It literally shows you how to do the practice step by step.

Prof. Reynolds is by no means a bad person and can be understanding, and he is incredibly intelligent. But he's not a great professor, especially for an intro course. His grading criteria and weighting make no sense, and tests are essentially impossible to do very well in. Be ready to spend a lot of time to get a passing grade in this class!

Reynolds is very skilled at this subject but doesn't do a very good job explain and showing how to do steps on the practice/grader assignment, the tests are timed, and he just talks in class about random things about the subject, nothing really helpful relating to homework, wouldn't recommend taking him.

Exams are impossible. There's a ton of homework graded so make sure you get as high of a grade on those as possible to pad your grade for the exams. This felt like a masters class than a 200 class, more hardware topics than software. Lots of trick questions on tests too

Wish he could inject his class with some of the interest he shows toward the subject. But he honestly acts like all his courses are a refresher that everyone who comes into class should know from prior experience. Very smart guy, but seems to come off as puffing his chest and sneering down on you unfortunately.

Only reason I didn't give him a 1 for quality is because he is the only 230 instructor as far as im aware. So if you are an IS or IT major, buckle up. He assigns lots of papers, makes the exams difficult if you dont study at least a week ahead, and expects students to have lots of prior knowledge despite the fact mostly first years were in my class

DO NOT TAKE CIS WITH THIS PROFESSOR! Taking CIS as a mandatory credit, this professor makes it very difficult to learn anything from this class. Lectures in class as if everyone is supposed to know how to work excel, is not very understanding when students do not understand Assigns LOTS of homework in excel, a tough grader. Attendance is mandatory.