Nice guy but SO HARD!

Nice guy, but he really can't teach. We don't use the book. He covers a lot of material. He doesn't use blackboard. If you ask for clarity, he repeats the same thing or says "think about it." He uses an projector, but his handwriting is horrible. You can barely understand what he's saying. Don't take his class, you'll regret it.

Seems to be a nice guy, but his teaching is terrible. He uses hand written slides that he frequently misplaces (his handwriting is terrible, by the way), he rambles, and he spends entirely too much time telling everyone how he's the best teacher to have ever existed, even though that couldn't be further from the truth.

I don't recommend this course to be taken with this professor. Don't ask questions - you will be shot down. Do not miss class - you will not pass the course. Do not stay after class to ask questions - he will not listen to what you have to say.

Professor Goel was not clear on anything. His tests weren't even close to what he went over in class. Although attendance is required, you will not learn a thing. Buy the book because it will be your best friend.

He is the WORSE, he does not know how to teach at all, I am not sure how he is still a professor. If you attend his lecture you will understand the pain and when you ask question he repeat same story!! Does not use book at all, this class is not for C++, but he makes u write code on homeworks!! Stay away from him if possible.

As a graduate level course, this is simply a 10 week review of CSC 4500 followed by 5 weeks of random topics that aren't in the syllabus, mostly CSC1500 review. Overall, only 1-2 topics from the syllabus were actually covered. The last class was him talking about being able to control computers with his mind and the nature of the soul.

Extremely unclear in lectures, his notes are poorly written and disorganized, exams are incredibly difficult, and grades are not curved. I would not recommend this class to my worst enemy.

Avoid him at all cost! He thinks he teaches in an easy manner but this is how lectures go. Teaches you shortcuts to material you haven't learned yet then boasts about how good of a teacher he is because of how he teaches. Lectures are super jumbled up. Don't believe me? Take his class and watch him sift through unorganized, bad handwritten slides!

Goel has a monopoly on 3 classes because of tenure. His notes are completely illegible scribbles from decades ago. Take this class with friends who will help you self-teach all the topics online, because the lectures are useless and the TA grades harshly. He likes to give trick questions on exams. Easily one of (if not) the worst professors at WSU.

To be quite blunt, he cannot teach. He is smart, but cannot teach. He can write 100's of pages of notes, and although the information is correct, he cannot teach. He has an interesting background with a lot of education, but in the end he cannot teach. He is a good guy, but cannot teach. Save your grade and take this class at the ATEC campus.

Terrible. Cant help repeating how everything is alright, but gives simplified versions of everything in class compared to homework and tests. He flies through everything as if you have already had the material before.

Professor Goel barely taught me anything during the entire semester. He is very unorganized and assumes everyone already knows what he is talking about. Keeps saying stuff is "easy". Worst teacher I have ever encountered. I went to lectures, but those were useless. Final grade is based on hw, and 3 exams (non-cumulative). Avoid him if you can.

You will have to read the textbook a lot. He does not require the textbook but you will need it. His lectures are absolute garbage. His lectures are just gibberish and his notes are equivalent to a kindergartener's scribbles. Completely illegible. He uses your attendance as a grading factor but it just confuses you more if you do attend. dont take

He does not really help outside of class, his only extra help is his advice to read the book which is not really helpful. He gets off topic too much and too easily. His notes are illegible and he grades based on attendance. His homework is the most helpful thing in his lecture but they are very vague so get ready to read and learn all on your own.

Nice and pretty funny, but a terrible teacher. He claims he teaches simply, by teaching in a relatable way, but then the exams are far different than class examples and homework. He posts his notes on blackboard but they are completely ineligible. The book is useless with the class. He grades on the curve at the end of the class which really helps.

Nice guy, smart and has decades of interesting professional experience. But, truthfully, terrible teacher. Although he claims to be the best teacher, he has no concept of how to convey the material. Uses the fact that he post his notes to go very fast, in fact, his notes are illegible and consist of two steps, the problem statement and solution.

Exams were terribly hard. TA had no idea about the concept, graded extremely harsh. But Goel didn't do a thing about it. His handwriting is nonsense, no way to understand. Makes the hw and exam super hard. Avoid him at any cost, Wayne should get a different CSC4500 professor.

Professor is horrible. Sometimes he himself gets confused what he is teaching. He doesn't like if you ask questions.

I dont even have words. Old school pen and paper lecture. So you have to listen and write stuff down. No powerpoints, complicated assignments. Class average around 50%. Do not even think about it

Awful teacher, He's a nice person but a VERY bad teacher, he simply cannot teach and his handwriting is not understandable. AVOID HIM!!!

Unorganized, cant read his hand writing, never a clear understanding of what he wants us to know or how to do it, i just dont know what to say, it was just bad, and i'm usually great at math

Not very clear on the things he teaches and goes off on too many irrelevant tangents.

Terrible teacher, puts topics on exams that have never been covered in class, goes off on pointless tangents, lectures are incoherent and unorganized. Worst CSC professor I have had at Wayne State.

He just a bad professor do not take his class.

One of the single worst professors I've ever experienced in a college setting. Doesn't record your grades publicly, nor grade your assignments. Prepares examples ahead of time without solving them cleanly. When asked to discuss, he instead takes the same muddy examples. Don't take this professor, you won't learn.

CSC 1500 is a hard class. Being taught by Professor Goel makes it even harder. Paper notes that he had handwritten before class are projected with his illegible handwriting. The only thing that saved my grade was the HW. He'd ask for things on the HW that he didn't teach in class. Then I could google them because they would be on the exam.

You will not learn anything from the course lecture. This instructor has nothing to say but some unrelated stories. At the last week of the semester, he announced that he wants to give an exam!!He did not even show up for the exam. He was mostly in holiday (no class for at least half of course. But he curved the grades and I got a good grade

This was one of the worst classes in college so far. His lectures used hand written notes with poor handwriting. I had to look up most of the concepts on youtube and get tutoring because I had a ton of trouble learning his lectures. Make sure to do the homework and learn it well for the exams. He curves, but I would still recommend a different prof

The worst Professor is the history of Wayne State!

Possibly the worst professor I have ever had. While the zooms are mandatory (I missed one and my grade took a decent hit from it), he explicitly states that nothing he lectures on will be on the exam. In fact, he doesn't know what will even be on the exams because he just uses a pre-made one and doesn't even look at it. Learned basically nothing.

Do *not* take him for intro to programming. His lectures don't cover the homework, instead he rambles about his own success. The homework and tests are insanely hard, covering math in courses I haven't taken yet. If you ask him for help he'll tell you to look online, and then give you a 0 for "cheating". Shout out to the awesome TA though

Goels lectures are extremely boring and a waste of time. The TA holds lab for the second hour of class. My TA taught in a way that you didnt have to watch lectures and still do well in the class. Coding is not that easy but if you spend time to try to conceptualize the material and not cheat your way through, youre going to be much better off.

If you want to keep your sanity, never take this professor. All lectures were composed of him showing us a vague powerpoint, pointing at random parts of the basically empty slides, not explaining anything, then expecting us to understand. We would ask him to clarify but he is hard of hearing and doesn't explain well anyway.

THE ENTIRE SEMESTER; only 4 questions on 3 exams. 12 questions that ur ENTIRE grade depends on, all written in a VERY specific manner and HE decides if right or wrong Only need a 20%+ to pass but his lectures are SUPER vague since he is 80+ years and is very proud of it (not in a good way). VERY unorganized online. rich subject but poor lectures.

This class was a JOKE. Basically you go to class write your name for attendance then leave. Homework assignments were all out of 2 points then he hits you with a 60 points exam which crushes your grade if you do bad. He taught absolutely nothing, and the exam questions had nothing to do with the homework I dont think he even read the examquestions

He needs to RETIRE. The whole class is based on 3 exams from the lectures that don't make sense. He just goes on and on about the "trade" and how he's setting us up for it but hasn't been in the trade since the 70-80s. Very very outdated where he didn't want us to use the internet to help us learn. Avoid to keep your sanity

This guy should to retire. If someone is incompetent to teach, they shouldn't be given the job to do so. We aren't going to college for free, it costs us money. I understand he's old, and we should go easy on him, but I tried my best working with him. It just does not work out.

Extremely unhelpful for both personal and class problems yet expects the utmost consideration for his own issues. Quite literally a bad person

The intro to csc class is basically entirely self-taught. Overall the course is simple but expensive, you pay for the book. The professor is not helpful whatsoever, if you ask him a question he will tell you to ask a peer. The tests are hard because they have nothing to do with anything on cengage. Should've just been an asynchronous online class.

Took this guy Fall semester of 2024, this guy should retire. He is very kind and understanding, and he was probably brilliant when he was younger. However, now I really think that he struggles to teach. So my recommendation is to avoid his classes

Please don't take it if you care about learning; the professor mainly reads directly from the slides and doesn't seem to fully understand the material, so you end up learning nothing. Despite this, grading is extremely harsh. Even the TA acknowledged that most students didn't learn much in the class. Just don't take this class.

He does not care. His first words in class were “I don't know how to teach this class”