Dunne himself was a very poor lecturer. His power-points were so dull that people were sleeping in the middle of class. He contradicted himself quite a bit which made following the flow of his lectures nearly impossible.

He's messed several things up every lecture so far; we often have to re-learn concepts after already going through them incorrectly the first time. Assumes everyone in the course comes in knowing how circuits work. Rushes through material way too fast; terrible at explaining. Often corrected by his own students. Unorganized yet apathetic instructor

He probably says "actually" over 90000 times per lecture. Currently a week after the midterm, no sign of anyone updating our grade what so ever, completely blank grade book.

Atrocious. I had to teach myself all of the material for this class, by reading the book and looking up other professors' PowerPoints/notes online. Max doesn't return grades, which makes it impossible to know how you're doing. He is disorganized, doesn't respond to emails, and doesn't seem to know what he is lecturing about half of the time.

He is not helpful.

It is amazing that we actually have to pay for this. We could have been given a textbook and a bunch of PDFs with notes and labs and told to figure it out, because that is essentially what this class was. To the instructors credit, he was totally slammed with several hundred students. Ultimately, the DoE is responsible for the terrible quality.

Max doesn't know what he talks about most of the time. Not well prepared for the lecture, probably didn't write the slide himself. Once he got confused while explaining the range of number represented by two's complement and goes back and forth three times. And he says the word "actually" way too often.

There are a lot of things that are wrong with the way he handles the class. He doesn't answer student questions and often messes up his own lecture notes AND tests. Grades are not handed back in time and nobody knew their grades until the day grades are due. You would learn more off the textbook and the TAs since Dunne cannot teach well.

Terrible teacher who game the midterm back the day of the final. Homework was given back only in the 8th week and virtually no feedback was given to students regarding their standing in the class. Expect a lot of time on your own teaching yourself the material because he honestly cannot teach the material during lecture.

I have already taken a decent amount of programming classes and had to back track and take this class for the CE major. I don't think that his approach is a very good way of teaching programming. Also doesn't lecture well and assignments are stupid. Don't recommend.

He was one of the worst teachers. He can't explain anything right and makes everything harder than they should be. Some of the programs that were written in assembly were not designed to be as they were supposed to be. He doesn't even know the difficulty of his own class and often makes mistakes. Avoid him if you can!

Max was a truly awful prof. He confused himself and the students on the first day of lecture, and continued to do so throughout the quarter. His handwriting is awful which makes it hard to understand what he's writing. He also went over important slides too quickly. Didn't gave back grades until the last few weeks of class. Would not reccomend

Even though he means well and is enthusiastic about teaching, Max Dunne is not an effective professor in any way. In lectures, assignments, and tests, Dunne is incredibly incapable of communicating what he wants and how he wants it to be done. His lectures are disorganized, as was the entire class. Didn't return homework or midterm until week 8.

Very unorganized with lectures and the class as a whole. Consistently jumped to different topics in book and left me lost. Pretty bad at explaining things, the book was a million times better. Homework/labs were posted at inconsistent times (wish poor explanations, and riddled with errors), and no grades were shown until a week before the final.

The professor often makes mistakes and doesn't cover information on labs.

Honesty, Max Dunne is the worst teacher at UCSC. He can't teach, his handwriting is messy, does not return anything on time, and speaks way too quickly. I understand that he himself understands the material, but cannot communicate it with us clearly. Also the lab assignments are extremely difficult. DO NOT RECOMMEND!!!!

No clear policy, changes when he wants. Floating due date for assignment submission. Does not respect students. Teaching skill is lousy almost like screaming in the classroom. He is definitely not qualified for this teaching position.

Lectures were awful, Max was always making mistakes and made it hard to actually learn. Homework assignments weren't returned until the latter half of the class, which made it impossible to tell how you were doing in the class. Very disorganized

Grading take for ever. Learned more from the textbook. Terrible teacher just reads from slides however he knows his stuff and labs are chill.

Not really good at teaching

He is not a very good professor. The class is unorganized, he always seems like he is in a rush to be done with lecture, and he doesn't explain the concepts very well. He was sick for a whole week and did not have lecture. When he came back, he expected us to do the lab with little to none knowledge of the lab material.

Worst professor ever! Not much homework but u will get a heavy test. Very disorganized lecture! Highly not recommend!!!!!!

Worst class I've ever taken in UCSC. Took me more than 15 hours a week. Tons of lab work, and graded strictly. Instructions were unclear.

Sadly, Dunne is just not a good teacher. He is very, very bad a speaking and ends up muttering confusing information that is much harder to understand than it should be. The only positive thing I could say about his classes is that he consistently uploads his lectures online, but again they aren't very planned out or clear. I would not recommend.

The worst professor at UC Santa Cruz. Nobody is this badly ranked for no reason. Abysmal teacher.

Totally don't know how to teach, reads his slides all the time.

if you are going to take a course and are researching about the professor, Please try to take some other course and take this course some other time with another professor. He is simply the worst professor I have ever seen. Avoid him if you can , you will thank me later

Do yourself a favor and avoid this professor. I took CE12, CE12L, CE13, and CE13L with this professor and each class was awful. He takes forever to grade, doesn't lecture clearly, and moves way too quickly in lecture. In addition, his manner of speech is more than a little annoying, and he often makes severe mistakes in lecture, especially in math.

Do not take CE12 with this man if you can. He has communication problems so it's really hard to follow him.

Lab are way too long and complicated. I personally had no prior experience programming and, it was extremely difficult understanding all the concepts especially with the poor explanations he would give us. Very boring lectures. Avoid if possible. Also gives weekly quizzes which are very hard, and the reading material does not help!

worst teach ever at UCSC. you well never find him at his office hours. I hope he gets fired. Multiple people have switched majors because of him. I know the difference between a good programming class and a horrific one because I've attended multiple school before coming here. Ive had him for CE12 and CE13 and was the worst experience of college.

ATTENTION: If you do not have any coding experience, do not take this class. It is much too difficult for an intro to programming course. The first 5 labs are basically labs that you would see in cs 12A and cs 12B. Labs 6-10 all have to do with embedded systems and are similar to labs in ce100 . Labs 6-9 each take about 40 hours to complete. Beware

Beware- CMPE13 under Max Dunne is one of the hardest lower division classes at UCSC. This class is ludicrously difficult if you don't know C programming coming in. The weekly labs take over 30 hours to complete. Weekly pop quizzes are incredibly tricky and difficult. Didn't receive a single grade back till week 8. Avoid at all costs.

Let me preface by saying I've since taken 4 upper-division EE courses including 171, but none even come close to how terrible of an experience this class was. If you're in the same situation I was (little background in coding) you're in for a rough ride, so be ready. If you can take another class instead, do it. Otherwise, good luck.

The absolute worst professor i have ever had. Very unorganized and does not respond to students. On piazza when i make a private post to him I always see that there have been 2 views (which means he saw it) yet he chooses to ignore students and not reply. I do not recommend taking him.

Just DO NOT take his class! For the lab, he will only give you 1 point for readme, and nothing for the lab without any reason. When you email him, he will say "I am so busy and have lots of other things to do, please find me later". He just don't want to give us points. He wants all of us to fail this class. DO NOT take any of his class!!!

Gives conflicting instructions. Terrible at communicating. Unmanageable amount of work. All the work are out of scope of the course. Quiz are very unfair. Just run stay far far away from his classes.

AVOID if possible! Makes you write a design documentation and writeup documentation on labs. Doesn't tell you what the TA's are looking for on each and then the TA's proceed to give you bad scores since you didn't know how to write them correctly. Goes over lab material at the end of the week sometimes so you have less time to work on it

Don't ever take his course. The assignments are not that hard but you have to write design documents and write ups. These two things are not that bad if you know the requirements but you never know that the TAs/Graders are looking for. Points lost for very subtle things. Your life will be more meaningful.

I made an account just to post this. The worst experience I've ever had at ucsc. Seems likes he could care less about his students. All his labs were taken from another professor and he's put no effort into the class. Don't expect to learn anything from lecture. What is asked of you is extremely unclear and then he grades on a criteria not shown.

Gives lots of assignments with very unclear assignment sheets that are at best misleading and at worst so obscure that Piazza and other students are a batter resource. Half the class is dedicated to explaining assignment requirements vs actually teaching because of how confusing and obscure they are. Needs to streamline assignments

Probably the worst class I have ever taken, truly does not care about his students, and worst of all, he forgets he is working to help us learn, not to read of a slide he didn't even contribute to. Lacks motivation and inspiration in his teachings, most of what I learned was outside of class because lectures were useless for labs and to learn.

Professor Dunne has been one of the worst professors I have ever taken. He avoids interactions with students and is generally not available. The grading of assignments is vague and harsh. On quiz #5, he tested us on material that was covered the week after. The class is meant to be difficult but Dunne has done an awful job facilitating it. Avoid!

I Dunne even know where to start. Assignments increase in difficulty exponentially after assignment 5. Don't expect to learn anything in lecture either. This is a class that CANNOT be done without section/lab, go as much as you can since that is the only place you will learn. Also, you will be able to use the word 'vouch' again in your life.

This class was the hardest CS class Ive taken by far. Tutoring hours are solely for debugging help as each student is allowed only 10 minutes. If code doesnt compile you dont receive any credit no matter how much work you put in the lab.

I took CSE 13S with Dunne in Fall 2020 and it was by far one of the worst class experiences I have ever had. Dunne did a terrible job explaining and connecting class material to the Labs. Dunne was also overall unhelpful and very condescending when asked for help. Finally, students had to rely on TA provided psuedocode to even get started on HW.