This guy needs his ass kicked.

Absolutely horrible, to date the worst prof I have ever had. There wasn't a single class I went to that could have been better spent staying at home sleeping. His notes (if any) are worthless, and the textbook is barely related to the course material. DO NOT TAKE THIS PROF!!!

I took SENG 311 with him in the fall of 2004 and he is absolutely the worst prof ever. He can not teach, and just the sound of his voice gives me shivers. I feel sorry for anyone who has to take this class with him or any other class he may teach at the University of Calgary.

He should change his title from a pfofessor to an unprofessor who is very incompetent.

Worst Professor ever,... hard assignments and hard marking. Plays favorites in class so suck up and maybe you'll do good. Would not recommend this prof avoid him like the plague.

one of the worst profs I have ever seen. Very harsh in grading. Rarely gives feedback unless you ask for. Don't take his course.

Really terrible. Lectures are dull and content is presented very ambiguously. Assignments are put together rather poorly and graded arbitrarily. Worst part is the tests. Docks marks for wrong answers in multiple choice and then makes all questions a toss up between two possibilities. Avoid if at all possible.

Assignments and tests are extremely vague. his lecture is pretty much him rambling through slides, and his assignment has nothing to do with his lectures.

If you skip his class and if he can identify you, expect to be graded more harshly.

His assignments can't be more vague. Students end up having to ask a ton of questions.

Lecture material is fine. Easy to understand and digest. Seems doable. Easy even. Assignment 1. Draw diagrams. Sounds simple. Or so I thought. What the hell. We haven't done a tutorial on this, we weren't given practice exercises... and it's worth 10% of our final grade? Half the weight as the final exam? Utterly sadistic.

Please! This class is completely horrible. Assignments and projects are vague, the prof is literally playing game with you. Trying to figure out what he wants for the project is driving me crazy, no specific requirements because according to him, that's how the "real world" work. Worst class, teach the most useless thing.

Horrible class. Doing a group project and idek what exactly im supposed to submit. This class is pretty easy, trick is dont actually keep up with lecture material cuz the vids arent worth watching. The slides are next to useless, all my assignments were done with textbook and youtube tutorials. This class is a joke, but at least its easy.

I'm really trying to give him the benefit of the doubt here, but thus far I don't think I've had a worse learning experience. Extremely vague expectations for just about anything, even the TAs don't seem to know what's going on. Save for several tangents about how the "real world" works, ugh.

This guy's a real stinker. His lectures are useless, assignments and projects are vague, extremely rude when answering questions, and doesn't tell you much in general. Nobody knows what's going on. Terrible "professor", if you can even call him one.

The school is getting robbed in broad daylight by having Walker "teach." Assignments are vague and group projects nobody knows what's going on. The only difference between being taught by Walker and a monkey is that the monkey will at least be more pleasant.

This class is so mess. Assignment is mess. Group project is mess. Everything is mess.

The worst class I have ever taken in my entire degree. Honestly the most useless course. TAs don't know anything, ask them a question, and their answer "Hmm, yea maybe" Professor forgets details to mention in the assignment Keeps on ranting about "the real world" and delays the questions. Walker is a disgrace to the CPSC department. SMH

Walker is like Lord Farquaad from Shrek and his TAs are the blind mice. The class is a total disaster. He tries to make the group project like "the real world" which is complete bs because it's nothing like the real world. No one knows what is going on and grades are essentially assigned randomly because there are never any rubrics. Avoid taking!

This prof is the worst prof ever I have had. His assignment and teaching style is vague and disorganized. Avoid him by all price

Great concept for a class ruined by incompetent professor. This is an "industry" course and is supposed to show how industry works. Instead, Walker provides virtually no industry experience beyond an internship in the 90s. Thinks ambiguity is an excuse for "the real world". Structure the class like a real product team and learn to act like a human.

Hes extremely vague. To a point where even the TA's dont know what the exact expectations are. Always goes on about the "real world" but the real world is never bad. Definitely seems like he had a bad experience in the real world and is now taking it out on his students

AVOID TAKING! WALKER DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO TEACH. FINALS ARE 10 DAYS AWAY, WE JUST HAVE 25% OF OUR GRADES BACK

One of the worst experiences in my undergrad so far, this class is a scam of what the real world truly is. Prof is a disgrace to the department & should not be teaching. He has no grasp of the real world, changes expectations constantly, & has no clear explanation of anything ever. Prof's remarks and responses to students are rude & uncalled for.

While the content is pretty easy, the class organization and specifications or lack thereof is mind blowing. The group projects expectations are incredibly unclear with limited time. Resorted to harassing's the TAs on what is expectable. AND EVERY TA HAS DIFFERNT EXPECTATIONS, meaning there is no marking criteria and is pulled out of their ass.

Lectures have absolutely no purpose whatsoever. Learned essentially nothing new in the entire time of taking this course. Feedback on assignments and group projects is nonexistant. Requirements for assignments and group projects are extremely vague, confusing, and constantly change. Getting a good grade is not hard though, just a terrible class.

This class is yikes. Super ambiguous, unclear expectations. Guy admits he hates rubrics, so you'll never know where you stand. Takes super long to grade stuff (think end of semester). Written replies to students seem pretty snarky as well. Our class discord channel seems to agree with this assessment, so I know it's not just me. Take w/Sohaib

Walker seems like a decent guy, but he is atrocious at teaching. His lectures are almost entirely irrelevant to grades, and he presents in this weird way like he's doing you a favor. He talks a lot about how "novices like you" need to learn things, and then fails at teaching them. This with assignments so vague they may as well be in Sanskrit.

This class kinda sucked, I would not recommend taking it with Walker. I didn't learn a single thing this semester. This class was a fat L, cause I feel like I just wasted $700 smh!

Through LOADS of effort and luck, I got a good grade in this class. But I hated it and I haven't learned anything. The class was a disaster start to finish, TAs had no clue what was happening. Expectations were so vague cause he said he thinks the person who invented rubrics should be shot. Most interactions felt belittling/like he was our enemy.

If you cant tell from the other reviews this semester, this prof deserves no sympathy from anyone. He is so bad that he is comparable to the likes of Jorg Denzinger. If Denzinger was a -11 on a scale of 1 to 10, Walker would be a -10.

This course is simply a waste of $700. It's not just the fact that Walker's final exam is a QnA which he also "grades" but also the fact that this course is a rebadged CPSC 233. The first 3 lectures are ALL YOU NEED for the entire course. And even those were already covered in CPSC 233. So there's absolutely nothing to gain from this course.

Walker is the worst prof when teaching this course. We didnt know any criteria or expectations on assignments or exams, and the grades therefore are vague with no feedback. Lectures with videos are useless and we didnt learn anything from this course anw.

This prof is very lazy and very bad, give us tons of homework, with no rubrics as to how he is marking them, gives us very vague details then grades us on them. A very lengthy and hard project and final with many unnecessary obstacles along the way and then he gave up on grading the final project and gave everyone the same trash grade

300 level class with strange requirements and disgusting grading, I would never take any class from this teacher again if it wasn't a required class.

Robert is more concerned with his petty ideologies than teaching us what we need to know to do our projects and assignments. That is if it was even possible to know what the assignments required us to do because they are unbelievably and intentionally vague. Any time you try to find out how to do something his tone suggests you are incompetent.

I'd love to give this professor a great A++ cuz he clearly put effort into the teaching the course... but the problem is that the course had no real content since the beginning to teach the students. All you'll get is bloated English that you don't wanna read since you don't get "the point" of what you should be learning.

Walker is very confusing in his teaching, None of his TA's know what is happening. The Students are lost in between different TA's answers. His teaching tune is as if students are his enemy. The midterm was extremely long. Avoid him if you can.

Avoid. Group projects start at 5 people and increase to 20 people for the final iteration. If you're ready to be belittled, enjoy sarcastic answers to questions, and test your mental stamina with a heavy workload with ambiguous requirements while learning more about his life than course information, then this Prof is for you!

If you have another option, AVOID him at all cost.

Since most of us can't avoid taking SENG with him, just pray you can have good teammates. The assignments and projects are horrible as lots of implementations are up to the students to decide. TAs would give no straight answers. In The Real World if a project's requirement and teammates are this bad, your company would go bankrupt.

Workload ramps up fast & group size went from 5 to 20. This may seem all consuming - he is a forgiving grader, so do not make the mistake of decreasing time/work for your other courses - it's not worth it. I learned more from youtube's on topics discussed than in the lectures. He tries to teach a little bit of everything, without focus on anything.

Worst prof ever do not take

Please, don't take this guy if you don't have to. His definition of """""teaching"""" is to drop you in with extremely complex assignments without any real context or actual direction. The TA's won't help you either, making this class very unintuitive and unfair. If I could keep one person from taking him, I'd have made the world a better place.

The overall reviews speak volumes. Avoid like the plague

The entire midterm format worth a large portion of our grade was the complete opposite to the past 4 papers handed out for revision, and what was the majority explained in class. Half of the exam was illegible, being rushed to print and handed out. Horrible exam and teaching format.

worst prof of my life

A super boring and ambiguous guy that doesn't teach enough to know how to do the assignments and group projects. The midterm was god awful as it was missing pages for some and the print quality for some of the diagrams were barely legible. Can't really avoid him since he's the only one that teaches this course.

He goes on marginally related tangents constantly and fails to provide enough context for the concepts he teaches. He is also incredibly condescending towards students, and blames some of his failings on us. I find it very hard to believe only a few people out of 300 or so are capable of getting A-range grades. At that point, your process sucks.

Really unhelpful, and rude towards students. Asked for my exam back and questioned my grade and was belittled. Has to be one of the worst professors at the uni.

14 days each to do Iteration 1, and 2, and 3. 20 days after handing in Iteration 1 we have received nothing, not even a line of feedback. Iteration 2 is supplementary to 1, and 3 to 2, etc. We will be handing in Iteration 3 in a week not knowing if we even passed the 1st. Nightmare course, horrendous professor who's extremely inapproachable. AVOID

Had to drop out because Project Iteration 3 is a Pass/Fail and we have not gotten back anything regarded handed in Project Iteration 1, Project Iteration 2, and all our tutorials have been moved online. Impossible to learn and progress in the course, ridiculous work load that relies on getting lucky group members. Bad group member, you are done.

Your grade is disproportional to the amount of effort you put in. Highly luck based course. Class is boring and bro finds every way to blame the students, without considering that his teaching is why students are skipping class. It is a challenge to stay awake in his class, and he rarely finishes his lectures.

Terrible prof.

Very vague, ambiguous. Man just gives off a negative aura. If you go to lecture, you'll feel like you've gained nothing - good luck trying to get any feedback from him. The project is a strange simulation where Robert plays multiple personas - figure out how to address him "Ms. Leeder, Manager, but don't you dare use "Prof Walker".

Robert is a terrible prof, whose lectures are very boring, vague and ambiguous. Like another review mentioned it is a challenge to stay awake in his class. Your grade depends on your luck with your teammates, plus he updates the hardware code we are working with hours before the deadline causing us to rush to complete it. Avoid if possible.

I will let you rate him based on this: he spent 7 minutes explaining what "legos" are because apparently we are so uneducated. He takes 2-3 business days to develop on an idea with his ambiguous examples & you lose track of the point midway. His speaking skills make you drowsy even when you aren't actively listening. Moral: "Don't be Sheep".

One of the worst experiences of my life in any kind of Education based endeavor, to think this man gets paid to complain to second year students boils my blood. Really rude, inaccessible, and belligerent towards students outwardly via email, and in person. Forgot to made Grades visible for 7 weeks, no wonder 4/400 people turn up to the lectures!

His approach was disorganized, leaving us confused about the course material. His explanations were unclear. Furthermore, his demeanor was often brusque and dismissive, making it uncomfortable to ask questions or seek clarification. This attitude not only hindered our learning experience but also created an unwelcoming classroom atmosphere. Bad

Had to go to the dean about him, never in my life have i ever met such a poor teacher as well as an unkind person. Please try avoid

Based of my own calculations this is my grade but the new semester starts in two days and final grade still hasn't been updated onto the portal. For the actual class, the lectures are boring and he's a little conceited. I was lucky enough to be put into good groups from the first project iteration. The first 3 assignments were the most challenging.

Waited over a month for grades for him to remove the class from our web portal, would be great if I could access an unofficial course grade, let alone I dare say any basic feedback. For someone who tirelessly speaks about lack of student effort, care, and time management- he could take more than a few lessons himself. Quite a shocking prof.

A course where your grade revolves entirely around the quality and effort of your group peers, at no point were we able to meet/choose members. Groups and requirements constantly changed, LAST MIN, and workload was extremely excessive in comparison to ALL other 300 levels. You could be an A student and walk out with a C here, bad course and prof.

Never felt so in the dark with a course, and uncomfortable around a professor. Using playground insults and names is a really intelligent and helpful way to teach, I feel sorry for the poor students who were merely asking (valid) questions. If you are able to avoid him, for your mental health, gpa, and much more- please do.

Surprise! He lied! There is no flexible grading, other than removing the first 3 assignments of which I, and my peers, worked tirelessly on. Nothing about that is helpful, or even remotely flexible, merely helping people who did nothing for the first month of the course. Not someone you want teaching you at any point of your uni career. Yikes!

No one knows how his TA's grade especially since he doesn't require them to give us any form of feedback. All grades are entirely subjective and your final grade also heavily depends on the group mates you have (which you have no say in picking). It doesn't matter if you pour 10 days or 2 hours into a project, you will still end up with a B.

he's got a massive ego and talks down on students. his lectures are extremely boring as well. sent out a 2100 word email belittling and tearing apart students for having a 70% avg on the midterm. no other prof gives a snarky response when u ask for a 2 day extension bc u have 2 finals the day after sth is due. hes my biggest op next to james tam fr

he sux

By far the worst professor I have had in uni. The fact that they allowed this guy to teach this course for apparently around 20 years boggles my mind. I was really excited to take this course at first, but this guy was able to take away all of the excitement I had for it. Every topic on this course is actually quite interesting, but he just stinks

Avoid like the plague.

got a 65% on the midterm and homie paired me up with people who got 40% on the midterm 😭

For anyone reading this, I am begging you- stay away from this guy!

Any positive reviews were written by the prof himself. Fake news.