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clueless and still doesn't know english

Really likes PowerPoint. No, really. Too much. Nice person. But really likes PowerPoint. With nothing on the slides. And thinks we can't read.

Completely inept, fails to properly prepare for lectures, and doesn't realize that he lacks the background to teach what he is. Tries his hardest to be helpful, but fails due to lack of background.

I don't know where to start???

Doesn't know what he's doing. Teaches entirely from previous notes that he had, and he hasn't learned any of it. Gets his own examples or questions WRONG.

He has to be one of the worst teachers I have ever had. He never returns any work you turn in...not even before a test to study. He can't speak English and has NO clue what he's teaching. Somehow...we all get stuck taking him...no matter what.

I hate how he can't even get simple project examples right in class, but assigns really hard projects to the students. How can he grade them if he can't even get the easy ones right himself?

Consistantly and blatantly wrong.

WORST PROF EVER! dont take him. you cant understand him and he is a horrible teacher. everything about him sucks.

Most people got it right, good intentions, but hard to understand, not always right, and a bit lacking in teaching ability.

This professor is the absolute worst professor I have ever had. It is hard to describe him without using any swear words. Even then, words fail to describe the sheer stupidity.

sanwar ali yes just like his name its confusing, he talks about his life which no one cares about, he tells you you have a test 1 day in advance, he teaches like he just woke up tired and restless.dont take him if you want to keep your gpa at a 2.0

He is a very nice person, but I don't think he she should teach without anyone going over his plans, for the simple fact that he confuses everyone in all of his classes.

the worst teacher I ever had or seen. A monkey could've done what he did. His job consisted of standing at the computer and press the space bar to show the next slide on the power point, then read word for word what was there. His english sucks too

This guy doesn't know anything about computer science, other professors actually admit he sucks at programming. When you ask him a question he acts pissed off and will never answer you. He is like dealing with a ten year old. I'm very disappointed.

read the book - his (brief) instructions are mostly wrong

Absolutely the worst Prof. I have ever had. I've had some bad ones but he takes the cake. They should pay the tutors his sallery. because they earn it. makes you feel stupid and is often corrected by the students he is supposed to be teaching. SUCKS

This man can not get points accross to a class in english.He spends much of class being corrected by the students on how to solve problems.He answers questions by saying, oh, thats so easy you should have no problem.Just read the question.Yep, it's that bad.

Wow, everything written here is true. This guy is a total joke. Major language barrier. Very unorganized. I wish i was in class the day he fell on his ass. DO NOT TAKE HIM. You would rather be stuck in a phonebooth with an alligator. I don't know how someone so stupid can become a professor.

Run away... This guy is not able to teach.... He makes a lot of mistakes in his slides too. I wonder how he got a job in the computer science department. Assignments ... he does not even read them. I intentionally wrote "crap" in one assignment and he gave me full credit. You will waste your time with this guy.

Dosent know what he is talking about. Horrible teacher. Do not take even for a 101 class.

This teacher is the type where you ask yourself, "Why did I pay the school for me to teach myself?" Ali doesn't teach, he copies the book into Powerpoint slides. He doesn't help his students because he has no understanding of the material at all, so the class basically became students teaching students, while the professor tried to learn as wel

Awful class, he sometimes had no idea what he was teaching and got off subject all the time. He is obsessed with Bangladesh and his son. Do not take the class

There is only one way to understand how horrible teacher this individual is, and that way is taking one of his classes, but then it is too late! COSC 210,300, 310, the one was worse than the other. I don’t understand how he can work as teacher at a University?! And concerning the positive ratings in this site, he uses to write them during the exams

Sanwar Ali does not even deserve to be called teacher; THIS MAN IS A JOKE! Ask whoever at IUP, and they will tell you the same. Even other professors know how incompetent he is. And it is true like other people say; he uses to write his own positive reviews, I have seen him doing it. AVOID HIM!!!

This guy doesnt know anything about comp science. If you ask him a question he plays pissed off and wont answer you since he doesnt know then answer, then he say, -you should know it- or –read the book-. He talks down to students and make them feel like idiots when they dont understand something. DONT TAKE THIS GUY!

Waste of time and money. This teacher sucks!

Horrible teacher. SUCKS!

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SUCKS!!!

Completely inept. He can't even get simple project examples right in class, but assigns really hard projects to the students. Insanely hard tests since he has NO clue what he's doing. He tells you that you have a test 1 or 2 days in advance. This guy is a total joke.

Worst teacher ever. He does not have a clue about what he is teaching. He is highly offensive to any students he doesn't feel deserve his respect, and he plays to his favorites.

INCOMPETENT !!!!!!!

A monkey knows more about java programming than this professor.

He is completely useless and should seek another profession. Drop this class while you have your sanity.

Useless! Very hard to understand. He wont explain anything and gets frustrated and arrogant very quickly if you have a question or do something wrong. Tests are long. Teaches from powerpoints and rambles for long periods of time about nothing.

TERRIBLE! ONE OF THE WORST PROFS AT IUP! You won't learn anything and he doesn't explain how to do projects on the computer. You can't understand him either and he is rude. If you have to take him Good luck you will prob end up withdrawing.

he was the worst he dosn't like helping at all. Like if he say it once he's not going to repeat hisself again you have to learn it on your own. he is just the worst teacher

worst teacher I have ever had.... We never even got back out book report which was a big chunk of our grade

Horrible Teacher. Completely incompetent. Makes MANY mistakes and claims to be "Testing" us. Can't speak a word of english and is a real **** if you have questions. Avoid his class at all costs, you won't regret it. Brags about his achievements and acts like he knows everything.

This teacher is truly incompetent, DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS! You could teach yourself more than he could. He tries to act like he wants you to come to him and ask questions, but when you do he talks down to you and gets pissed off. The tests and quizzes are super hard.... Just do yourself a favor and do not take him. It will save your sanity!

So I had to take this class because its only offered once every 2-3 years... I wish I hadn't. Apart from giving us an insanely hard final, this awful excuse for a teacher DID NOT TEACH. He spent a week reading papers... not teaching just reading to himself. If thats bad him assigning 8 problems on EASTER SUNDAY at 5 at night was just the start.

He is basically a useless professor. He gets angry when someone asks a question or gets a question wrong, claiming that they should have known it and that he "said 3 time". All he talks about is his home computer, his son, and how he is a "living example of the evolution of computers", whatever the hell that means. Would I take his class again? FUC

Took his online course. He basically ripped all the questions off of other teachers online. If you search for the question online someone has already answered most likely. IUP also posts their tests online for this department with the answers. He always thinks he is right but usually is always wrong. Easy A tho because of it being online.

HE GIVES 50 QUESTION QUIZZES THAT ARE DUE IN 20 MIN AND 150 EXAMS THAT ARE DUE IN 50 MINUTES.

Very impulsive about getting mad when asking him for help. he just replies with i just went over this werent you paying attention as the whole class sits in confusion

Terrible teacher all around Hard to understand moves too quickly and refuses to give help Stay away at all costs

Horrible. First off, he is not a nice guy. Second, he doesn't teach you anything. He expects you to learn it all out of the book. Literally not one question on the exams will be learned in the class. He has no clue what he is doing. Do not take this guy. Worst prof at iup

DO NOT TAKE. Sanwar will literally not teach you anything. He is awful. His assignments are poorly worded, and way too hard for the amount he teaches (which is next to none). I don't how he's a professor. He has no teaching ability. AVOID

one of the worst proffesors at IUP. Yells at you for not asking for help, Yells at you for asking for help. he has this useless attitude over top of being stuck up. Avoid or may some higher power have mercy on your soul.

Avoid at all costs. No seriously. AVOID USING EVERYSINGLE OPTION AVAILABLE, even if that includes delaying graduation until his tenor is up and he is no longer a professor! Don't say you weren't warned!

DO NOT TAKE. While the class it's self isnt bery difficult he doesnt make it any easier and is very unhelpful. He is very unclear, cannot pronounce anything for his life. His voice puts you to sleep, he is rude when you ask for help he refuses or gives you attitude. Says attendence is not mandatory but will randomly take attendence.

he is so rude will NEVER help you . he will ask if there are any questions and when you ask he completely ignores you or tells another classmate to help you no matter what the question is. always talks about himself and his accomplishments. only thing he will say to you is "you should be a computer science major" and overall is a complete ass

Easily the worst Professor i have EVER had. EXTREMELY rude. Offers absolutely NO help. Makes what would be an easy class terribly difficult and awful to sit through. DO NOT TAKE HIM, DO NOT DO THAT TO YOURSELF YOU WILL REGRET IT.

Rambles on, isn't respectful

Thought he couldn't be that bad. Was wrong. Took him for a 101 level class and had close to 100 questions on each test. He refuses to help anyone and just tells other students to help when you ask questions. I recommended steering clear of this teacher. Don't make the sams mistake as me

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More often than not, he doesn't know the material he's teaching. If you ask for help, he will pass you off to other students (he did it to me 8 times once), and if he does allow you to ask your question, he rarely has an answer. Tests are very difficult.

Honestly, he isn't too bad but he definitely isn't the best. His lectures are very long but gives you a "lab day" every week to get homework/projects done (all online homework). They are the only reason I passed this class. Tests and quizzes are very hard. Study the quizzes for the tests (trust me!)

Avoid at all costs.

He's really awful, rude to students, thinks himself funny, barely knows the material. He makes other students help each other with issues instead of getting out from in front of his desk, and never does anything to help us but read his powerpoints to us. The website we have to use for homework is glitchy, and the book is badly written

The class is easy, basically Word and Excel. Ali is not good at explaining how to do something in Excel. He makes students take time out of doing their projects in class and makes them help others. Also says it is a waste of time to answer questions so good luck on getting an answer from him.

He will call you out in front of the class and yell at you. People stand up and walk out because he is so mean.

I would not let my worst enemy take this professor. He is quite possibly the worst human being I have ever encountered.

I am going to FAIL this class, and I am a junior with a 3.9 gpa. DO NOT TAKE HIM.

Probably one of the worst professors I've taken at IUP. He says that there are too many students for him to help people so we have to help ourselves but no one knows what to do because his instructions are unclear. If you ask him a question there is a good chance he won't answer it and may even start an argument with you.

Worst professor I've ever had at IUP. Completely rude and disrespectful. Sometimes I would just leave before the class was officially over because sitting through his lectures is pretty much pointless. You teach yourself from the textbook. He DOES NOT help you AT ALL. Avoid at all costs.

had him for an introductory course, so I got an A pretty easily. I can't imagine taking him for any actually difficult class. He has a very strong accent and poor english, and gets annoyed when people ask him to repeat things. Because of this, students frequently misunderstand him. Gave exams with 300+ questions, each question repeated 3-10 times.

Honestly, I would give a 0 if I could. Overall just a really mean person, pretty racist. I did everything I could to pass and I got a D. Doesn't tell you about upcoming tests or when things are due. Doesn't explain things and when you ask a question he makes you feel dumb.

pretty harsh grader and wont answer questions

This guy does not seem to know what he is talking about. He doesn't pay attention to the students at all, if a student asks a question he would just blow it off like the student is dumb for asking a question. The homework was very dumb, we spent the first three weeks of class setting up visual basic on our laptops, btw no macbooks allowed.

Absolutely the worst professor I have ever had. He's incredibly rude to students who ask for help. One student asked him for clarification, he just said "no" and left. He really doesn't understand the things he's trying to teach, we have to end up correcting him a lot of the time. If at all possible, avoid this professor. Take literally anyone else

This professors assigns coding assignments and test questions from textbooks, but if your answer does not match the solution given by the text book verbatim it is wrong because he does not understand the material he is lecturing on, and therefore does not understand different approaches to the problem. Tests often contain material he does not cover

He told us on a Friday that we had an exam the following Monday. We had a three day warning. Three days. Also, forces you to take exams outside of regular class time because for some reason his exams have to be four times longer than any other professors exams. What an astoundingly awful professor.

Where do I even begin? As someone mentioned below, he gave us a 3 day notice for our exam. He takes points off of your hw/tests if it doesn't match up with what he did even if your answer is correct. We were supposed to learn Ruby but because he didn't know it, we switched to Perl instead. One of the most lazy and rude professors I have ever met.

You do a lot of projects that are easy to do, but towards the end of semester you have to teach yourself. He refuses to help you. There will be days where you literally come to class & do nothing, but he won't let you leave. It is an easy A, but its a very frustrating class.

Super rude and condescending. Never mentions assignments until they are due in a couple of days. Generally rude and arrogant. He lost my lab paper and blamed it on me. Will make you stop doing your project and help others. Just the absolute worst person I have ever encountered.

Sanwar is a great guy but a not so great prof, most of the material on the quiz we take is not covered or even spoken of in class, the first half of the class is boolean algebra, but he is very bad at explaining everything, second half of the class is learning assembly programming, but he is terrible and doesnt actually teach you how the code works

Honestly, the worst professor I've ever had. I literally have no idea how it would be possible to pass this class. Constantly puts wrong answers up on the board and grades assignments incorrectly. Even the book will show him that he did an assignment wrong but he refuses to rebut it. Huge ego, terrible grasp of the material. Avoid at all costs.

He is the worst professor I have ever had! He catches an attitude when you ask for help. If you ask for help he will ask another student to help you. He is very rude. Now that classes are online he gave us instructions to work on a software we have never used and he also said if you don't understand how to use it then google it. THE WORST PROFESSOR

Terrible professor and person. Has a huge ego and is unwilling to help, will tell you to look it up or ask other students in the class for assistance. This class alone will make you want to steer clear of computer science for the rest of your natural life.

DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASSES. You would expect to have a basic class on computer literature that any student would walk out with a bit more knowledge into things such as Microsoft Excel. But, he goes so in-depth about every computer part which plays no role is most people's lives. He is condescending and always talks about himself and his family.

It's amazing that this professor is still being paid by the university... I literally have no idea how it would be possible to pass this class in any capacity. He constantly puts wrong answers up on the board then grades assignments incorrectly. Students never know what is actually right or not! Stay away from Ali!!!!

It is incredible that this human is still teaching at IUP. Avoid at all costs. Easily the top 3 worst professor in the continental united states. Someone please show him this website, maybe he will get his act together.