Class is boring and professor doesnt explain well. Mostly dependent on online textbook to learn

Exams are super hard while the actual class barely covers any material.

Professor forgot that this is an introduction course. Doesnt teach material and expect students to know it already.

professor acts like if you know the material already, doesn't teach well. its so bad hes making me rethink my major.

He either doesn't know the material or does not know how to teach it don't take him for this class.

Prof. Gomez was very condescending to his students when they had questions. In addition, prof. Gomez's instructional videos were very unorganized and had lack of direction, in addition to minutes of silence in every video. The book is more helpful and more to-the-point than prof. Gomez's class videos.

Perhaps knowledgeable but not a great professor. Assigns HOURS of work every week, consisting of quizzes, labs with 0 instructions & strange expectations, and lecture participation. Adds very, very little original content to lectures, with heavy reliance on summarizing sections of the textbooks (with no attempts to format for long-term learning).

Taking Artificial intelligence with this professor is a joke. He doesnt teach plain and simple, if you ask questions, he answers with a question thats probably useless. Or hell tell you to go read it in the notes. More than half the stuff you cover in lectures have nothing to do with the assignments. The class is trash, worst experience ever.

Dont do it! My first computer class and I know nothing. I was hoping I could learn coding but this man is a nightmare. He assigns too much work for one class that doesnt teach you anything. All his lectures are pre recorded. I cant take time to learn because there are too many assignments you have to next through.

Made the class extremely difficult and did not know the material half the time, was just as confused as us. There was homework constantly and their lectures were not very cohesive. Uses proctorio constantly which seemed invasive as heck to me and made it very difficult to do the test. Would not take again.

This professor is hands down the worst I've ever had. He changes homework and programming assignments on the fly, sometimes the day before it's due without any extensions. His tests are near impossible due to how long and how vague they are, for example a 71 question, 75 minute test with mostly free response calculations. Avoid at all costs!

Grades contained little feedback, so grading criteria was unclear. There were opportunities for grade improvement with extra credit and corrections, but it did not make up for the core problem which is that the professor is not good at lecturing the material and providing clear instructions.

By far the worst CS professor I have ever taken. I cannot tell whether he actually knows the material as the entirety of the lecture is him just reading 5 year old notes word for word. He changes entire homework questions the day before it's due forcing you to fix already submitted homework. I couldn't be paid enough to take him again.

BEWARE. Gomez is not a good professor. He has his database sections retake the midterm and still do corrections for the midterm because the exam was poorly designed. I've had an A the whole time but still have had to spend many days on homework that should only take 1 day tops. Most of the people in his class have failed.

Professor Gomez just read off the jumbled notes (the wrong section for 3 weeks), and what he did teach us did not at all prepare us for the exams. If you have no choice, please go over the recordings of his lectures, you will not learn from just attending. I would give this a 0 if I could, let me put it that way. The 2nd worst CS professor in UTSA.

A professor's job first and foremost, is to communicate the material at hand effectively with students. Unfortunately, you will not get that here; you are going to have to teach yourself. A lot of the time, the homework assigned deliberately uses different definitions/syntax from other online resources so it's hard to do it yourself.

Does not allow any notes on confusing midterm including math related questions, then when the class fails will let you retake it with unlimited time/notes, then when the class still fails will allow for corrections. Outdated course material he doesn't understand, very odd exam formatting, and will not respond to your emails a majority of the time.

Most horrible professor in CS Department along with Ortiz. Do not take I repeat do not take. He doesn't know how to comunicate efectively with students, very unclear directives durign hws and exams. Awful!!!

Disrespectful to students. Used proctorio for midterm with screen recording which made the already too long exam lag. Tons of people told Gomez it was lagging and made it 10x harder to do the exam. ONE person said the exam didnt lag for them and he said since it didnt lag for the one person he didnt know why we had problems. No care for students.

Did not record at start even though its online Changed later but still no lecture download for future review after semester Very inconvenient especially if you failed Recordings not titled Poor exam wording and design, exam retake too Many failed retake as well Rude responses Theres far more(3x) but cant include because of 350 char limit Avoid him.

Teaching isn't about making your students feel ignorant to make yourself feel more intelligent, Mauricio. I am referring to the convolution, exams and even programming projects. Clear intention to confuse your students to make yourself feel smarter. The material is basic, there is no need to convert it to every mathematical translation to use SQL.

Honestly worst class i have had to take for the degree. Makes very condescending remarks towards the students and his grading is completely unfair and makes zero sense. Unwilling to compromise and is a shining example why higher ed does not work. Avoid if you can.

Tests have nothing to do with lectures. Professor makes bogus claims that no one studies. Professor has no patience and no good explanation why. The way the professor teaches this course is so bad that I recommend unless a different professor starts teaching this course, change to the new CS catalog since this course is not required for graduation.

This professor is the worst professor I've taken in the 3 years I've completed so far. His thick accent makes him sometimes difficult to understand. He informs students of extra credit after extra credit is required to be turned in. He uses formatting technicalities to neglect students of full credit for correct answers. Avoid at all costs!

Lectures hard to follow so attending felt pointless, but it was also hard learning on my own. HW was hard & time consuming. Very little guidance on how to do prog. assignments. The midterm/final were unnecessarily long and confusing (y no cheat sheet/open note). Managed to pass this mess of a class. Why is he the only prof that teaches databases?

Gomez is an infamously bad professor in the CS department. His lectures are extremely ineffective, as he just reiterates what was said in the Zybooks. Countless mistakes in his lecture slides as well. Just not a great teacher. He says way too much in his lectures without saying anything of value. Does offer some extra credit, but still not worth it

This professor had to many assignments, didn't really expand on the material that could have benefited the class. Due to his monotone voice, it can be a bit of a struggle to follow with the course.

BEWARE... Mauricio will treat you like you're the problem any time there is an issue and he isn't nice about it. He does in-class activities at the most random times and most of the time they're formatted to only give you half credit. If you try and ask a question, he will either answer it with no issue or call you out for being dumb.

Online class. Lots of heavy work with little time to complete. Deadlines are back to back. Nice man but would not take again.

I have had some bad professors during my college career, but my god this professor is by far the most difficult I've had to endure. Don't expect to receive much help from him on any assignment. If you need to study for an exam you won't be able to look back at previous graded assignments since he has locked the students permission from viewing.

Practice exams are provided but an answer sheet isn't provided. They come with a disclaimer that they may not be relevant in the first place. Claims to not want to have to offer test corrections and rather have all his students ace the exam first try- even though he has been offering test corrections for the last 4 years.

Don't even bother doing extra credit assignments as they either BARELY raise your grade, DON'T RAISE IT AT ALL, or HURT YOUR GRADE. Him and his TA are lazy graders who do not care about their students enough to at least explain why you got a certain grade and how to fix it. One day, every student's overall grade dropped by 10 points with no reason

Never Take a Class with Dr. Gomez. He forces attendance with pop quizzes, calls his classes lazy and procrastinators when issues arise, gives large workloads, and refuses to answer questions. Most of his classwork forces use of terrible, proprietary code tracing methods. Thick accent, will belittle you when you try to ask him for clarification.

Professor does not care about his students at all. If you ever have an issue, he will not help you. If you have difficulty with something, he will make you an example out of you and ridicule you in front of the class. Please find another professor to take if possible!

AVOID Dr. Mauricio's Programming 1 CS-1083 Class AT ALL COSTS! He is a very strict grader and has random participation grades in his lectures and all classes are MANDATORY, even though when we do the ZyBooks we end up teaching ourselves the concepts he discusses AFTER they are due, He has a very thick accent and you can barely understand him.

Only day 2 of his lectures and already see red flags. He assigns end of class assignments which are only available for a couple of minutes. By the time you navigate the assignment, you literally only have seconds to answer the assignment before it's locked (only have one attempt). Blames you for not paying attention if you're not fast enough.

He hardly knew what he was teaching about most of the time and often got his own work incorrect. His lectures were useless because they never teach you anything. The only thing I learned were things from the textbook. He was never a help, he was passive aggressive and rude in emails and on business hours. Horrible experience.

Sloppy lectures, most of your learning will come from the book or online. Has a mandatory assignment that he opens up ONLY for the last 5 minutes of class which is very inconvenient. Just very sloppy overall and doesnt think about how he runs things. His office hours are terrible, and makes things way more difficult than they have to be.

Often, I would find myself lost in his lectures , which are very boring , the time based quizzes at the end of the lectures can be a little hassle sometimes. Class is also very short and fast paced which doesnt help at all with learning programming and we often miss topics due to the shortage of time ; I wouldnt take this class at all.

Be aware from this one yall been warned (especially freshmens!)

0 tolerance to late assignments, most focused in research rather than teaching, heavy workloads in unreal due dates, short classes, thick accent, little to no help at all, exams are complex and responses are open, confussing lectures or skips important things. Starts with Java not beginer friendly. A WASTE of Money and Time. DO NOT ENROLL!!!!!!!!!!

Refuses to answer specific questions unless during office hours then gets annoyed when you use his office hours. Grading criteria is unclear often and even when it is he doesn't know how to set up the automatic grading correctly so you always have to check his work after he grades you. Kind of passive aggressive. Better off learning on youtube.

The actual course content itself is easy due to being focused on zybooks. You are not able to see other student questions on zoom. Questions were given vague, unhelpful answers. Reviews were not helpful and the Exams use the proctoring software. Then even with a medical issue, there will be no exceptions ever. If you can, swap professors.

By far the worst professor I've had at UTSA. Do not take if you don't have to. Didn't want to record lectures when the course was online. Test was nothing like the notes or homework. Tries to trick students with wording in exams. He just doesn't understand how to teach , he absolutely does not care about any of his students.

Horrible professor, Do not take!

By far the worst professor I have ever had. His makeup for bad grades is right the whole code on paper. Lot of the way he teaches is not great for a beginner in coding. So awful. dont take his class