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Not a good teacher at all. Does not do his job as a teacher well. Does not know the course to well that he teaches either

Insufficient grasp of the material + confused explanations of what little he did understand = not competent to teach this class.

Worst teacher ever. Only teacher at Laney for programming, C, C++, Java, but he is terrible. As most of the comments mention, doesn't return homework, midterms are ridiculous, and class lectures are nearly impossible to follow. If you ask a question he makes you feel stupid for asking. Run AWAY!

Not recommended at all.

He doesn't return HW, midterm or final.Impossible to understand what he is saying,his English is terrible like mine;but I dont...There is no text book we use,he email lec.notes to the whole class.His notes are not clear,not organized,doesn't have a chronogical order; it is just a mess.I wested my time and money with this man.Not recommended at all.

says he doesn't like studious students and prefers the working adults who take his class to learn a new skill. well first and foremost Laney is a college for students wishing to transfer to 4 year schools. if these types of students arent his priority, then he's got a prob. 2nd, he can't teach. i didn't learn a single thing in his class. rude too.

Absolutely the most arrogant and arguably the least competent. Why? The first lecture, as many have already mentioned, he abuses his students by resorting to scare tactics, talking about how his course is designed to be insurmountable. However, his irritating prose is merely the tip of the iceberg.

Instead, he is nothing more than a run-of-the-mill script kiddy, one who exploits certain tools, whether malicious or not, without the knowledge of its inner components or intricacies. He can at best be a mediocre teacher due to his cocky stride. I strongly encourage students to take alternatives if you truly want to learn the material.

I just read the comments, I wish I had read them sooner. DO NOT TAKE ANY CLASS WITH HIM! His English is very hard to understand. His expectations are never made clear. Paper and electronic copies of all homework is requires, or half credit. Exams involved writing code on dead trees. Its unfortunate that he is the only prof employed in CIS.

Programming is fun and easy... Unless he teaches it... Then its useless, confusing, and just plain stupid... Theres too much wrong with him to explain in one post... Let me put it this way... You'll spend the entire exam period trying to understand his gibberish, and the entire lecture listening to things that have nothing to do with CIS.

My rating says it all... And believe me, I'm not underrating him... In fact, if there was a negative rating, Id go for it... Incomprehensible, as helpful as a brick, and made an easy course a nightmare.

Took his class back in 2000 and I cannot believe he is still there. I received a good grade for basically doing nothing except for eating pizza that he treated us when he got his tenure. No one knows how he received tenure with such bad reviews.

ye be warned

Difficult to understand and isn't helpful at all. Your in the dark about your grade until the class is over. Oh and btw. He's bias grading wise.

He is the worst teacher I've ever had, hands down. IMPOSSIBLE if you don't have any past experience in coding, I got an easy A in CIS26 (no thanks to him, through personal experience) but I dropped this class because I wasn't learning ANYTHING. Since there are no other CIS profs in my area, he single-handedly killed my love for coding.

I don't know what Laney College's intension is but I assure you this teacher is dream killer. Full of attitude, discouraging, too much useless details even when you have to email him, if you tell him that you are a programmer, you are his #1 enemy. BTW you don't have to be newbie either he will make you drop. Watch Prof. Mehran Sahami in UTube.

Worst teacher ever in the whole world. I don't know why Laney college hired such a horrible instructor to teach programming classes. His English is no way to understand. You will learn absolutely literally nothing from this class. Be careful when asking questions.He'll make fun of you if he thinks your question is stupid

Do not take him unless you want to learn about whoppers. (Yes from burger king).

I hope all you guys see those comments, I am very interested in Computer Science Tech. But when I took his class, all my future goals shot down.His class is horrible even do not think about to take his easiest class, especially cis26 cause ur gpa will drop. he is not native so u never understand this little guy, he is from UC Berkeley but it sucks.

50 percent of all class dropped cis25

If you have a question about your grade, he redirects you to his TA!.....

Tuan is a garbage instructor. He is extremely pessimistic, pedantic, and does not provide constructive feedback. He talks for 3 hours straight without a break, and maybe a quarter of the time it's relevant to programming. Doesn't matter if your code is logical or efficient, he'll find something he doesn't like and penalize you ex post facto.

He's difficult in the sense in that he's very picky and ridiculous in his requests.. For example, the thing he cares most about is your formatting, even for comments. Quizzes almost everyday. He has FOUR recommended books, so you don't know which one to buy and use, and since his lectures are always so disorganized, you are in the dark.

This class is a nightmare. If you have a 4.0, approach this class with caution due to the high number of random quizzes. Most of them are comprised of quotes you have to write verbatim.

Pop quiz: Write, verbatim, Professor Tuan Nguyen's definition of a variable in computer science. It's different from textbook definitions, hasn't been released to the class, and isn't available online, but if you don't write it exactly perfectly, you fail the quiz. What percentage of your grade is the quiz worth? He won't say. Prereq: ESP 101A

Do not take this class. Go to BCC instead. Go to Chabot instead. 6 hours of BS that should be left to a style guide. Gives pop quizzes on material he hasn't talked about yet. 6 weeks into CIS25 and we haven't gotten past the first month of Thana's CIS6. Ask a simple yes or no question and he'll give a ten minute answer without saying yes or no.

Prof Nguyen is the worst professor that I have ever taken. Don't take his class if you are not Asian. He bullies all others. Female students leave his class in tears. I am not kidding.

dont take his class. there are better options

There are free online courses far better than his CIS6 class, take those. Why? 1. Attendance Mandatory and boring 2. Long, winding rants 3. No communication, had to hunt him down 4. No way to make up sick absences 5. His way or the highway on literally everything

1. Unorganized lecture/hard to follow with tangential stories about things like drinking lizard blood. Lecture is no help. 2. No office hours-told us we could only ask questions during class. Would not come and help during class-made people next to me help who also were confused. 3. There are so many heinous reasons to avoid his class. Run.

Expects you to have had him for a previous basic computer class before an advanced class. Has a very strict format for turning homework that is confusing and he refuses to explain it. Hard to understand orally and has very bad handwriting. Expect few but extremely time consuming homework projects. Vague instructions on quizzes will fail you also.

Tuan Nguyen is not that great of a professor when you put into aspect of his lectures and how he explains about one thing over 30 minutes. He doesn't give out a grading rubric and doesn't send feedback if your code doesn't compile. He wants students to respond during class, but he makes it hard for them to do so by ridiculing them for wrong answers

This teacher is the laziest teacher I have ever had in my 16 years of school, he can't even use canvases while we was taking online class during the pandemic (spring 2020) and he is computer teacher . if you are reading this comment DON't TAKE HIS CLASS.

If you want to learn something don't take this class, this person has problems with email subject also he can confuse you easily.I'm a back end front end developer for 4 years I had to take class like c java math and... because i have offer in my job to be batter position. This is first time i write for someone like this. i hope he doen't teach mor

doesn't bother to use canvas, and uses his own awful email/subject line system. homework and quizzes are easy as long as you pay attention, he gives hints during lecture. goes on hour long tangents about random things. prof has a conceited and arrogant personality. communicate and collaborate with your classmates if you want a good grade.

This is the worst prof I've ever had. Whenever we try to learn, he continues to talk about his wife and two kids. He talks about some other things for a while, then talks about how missing a space will cost you 30% of your grade: If you miss the spaces on the header, or don't use some obscure rule he made up, you get a zero.

He doesn't check his emails even when he says he will and he is even hard to talk to during class hours. His lectures are unclear and he just blazes through the code. Hard to reach and difficult learning environment.

do not take this professor unless you want to have anxiety and confusion every day. he simply is not capable to manage an online class. he rarely checks his emails and lectures are super unclear. would subtract points off in assignments for missing a space or not being perfectly the way he wants them.

Did not have the best time with him. He wasn't very willing to talk to anyone or give help in general, always directing you to students who may be just as confused as you are. His email system is also very poor, and I feel is just built as another roadblock to get in contact with him. His class isn't very hard per say, but his teaching is not great

I have never left a review in my entire academic career for a professor; but Tuan is such an unbelievably bad professor I had to write something to keep other students from taking his class. He expects everything to be done a certain way but provides zero explanation as to how he wants it done. A complete joke, do not waste your time here.

This is the least teacher you want to take in your college life. He has his own set of STRICT rules and you have to go with it. Otherwise, he gets angry and return your paper without grading it. He has his own strict ways of taking attendance. The main thing is whenever he lectures, the 80% of it is his old stories and 15% required materials.

Good luck taking his class, CIS25 was a complete mess and he teaches nothing. Almost the entire course is all just about learning how to write code within his conventions, and I didn't learn anything related to C++. Attendance is mandatory on zoom, but the lectures really just waste 6 hours of your week.

DON'T TAKE ANY CLASSES WITH THIS PROF! Seriously I never had such a bad professor. I also first looked him up on ratemyprof and was thinking it should be doable since I have a coding background. DON'T TAKE ANY COURSES WITH HIM EVER. You will waste your money. It is way too stressful with him. He takes way too long to correct homework (10 weeks)etc.

The professor acts like an insecure whining baby. He keeps diverted from the actual topic of the course and emphasizes that everyone needs to turn on the camera over and over again.

Worst professor that I've ever met. His course was poorly organized and even worst presented. I cannot think of any professor that could do worse than he did.

I wish I'd had checked reviews before I enroll in his class. He is the worst professor that I had in my life. His class lecture is a mess. He keeps repeating himself making you feel like you are an imbecile that is not able to understand the first time If you take his class you will waste your time and money Also, you will hate computers after that

He wastes a lot of time explaining things that are not important and making some comparations that are so silly. He is far away to be a good professor. He never answers the email. If you don't agree with him for any reason you will be in trouble with your grade. His class is boring and unhelpful. You can learn more in Youtube tutorials.

He is by far the worst professor that I've ever met. The structure of the lectures is as unorganized as it could get. Instead of sticking to a fixed syllabus for specific topics of the programming language, he wasted the majority of the time emphasizing various logistics. Your time would be better spent elsewhere.

Camera requirements are mandatory and made a huge deal about it. 6/40 people remained towards the end of the semester. I highly recommend from someone who has taken him to please sign up for different colleges. If you do take him, read past reviews and expect the worst of it. It's all legit. You have been warned.

Simply Don't. FreeCodeCamp among other sites will teach better. You would spend 4 hours biweekly listening to repetitive contents. Make your time worthy. Also- His grading won't make any sense. I would suggest spending that money on parking tickets instead of his class. You can always take the class next semester, from someone else, of course.

He's probably incapable to teaching or compiling a useful material for exam/quizzes. The whole class turns out to be pissed at him based on various reasons. First time leaving a negative comment on a professor. Never replies to emails, being recursive on lectures, whose stayed learned better and faster on online materials. So you knew how bad he is

Spent an entire semester listening to his boring 2-3 lectures twice a week. He assigned only 2 homeworks, then he decides to grade them on the last week of the semester, giving me both a failing grade with no way of improving them. His grading heavily relies on if you meet his coding convention and styles rather than code. Waste of time and money.

The whole point of a teacher is to teach. Yet we spend more time hearing him tell students to turn on their camera and his coding styles. His coding style is just stupid. The way he tells us to code bears to relationship to the real-life industry. Tuan has the easiest and safest job on the planet cause of tenure. Do not fill up his class.

CC enrollments are at an all-time low due to enrollment decline. So, there are lots of colleges that need students like you to fill them. You get the option to pick QUALITY TEACHERS. This guy is not one of them. Lectures are disorganized and wants you to code in his convention which real life INDUSTRYS DO NOT USE. It's insane, he hasnt been fired.

If you are a 1st time programming student than do not take any of his intro classes because it will be a headache and you won't know your grade until the very end. If you're brave and confident then go for it.

This prof is the reason I look at reviews before I take any class, which is the only thing I really learned from him. Inaccessible and strict in the worst ways possible, and apparently he's tenured, which is disappointing. If you're mentally resilient and want to destroy your likely already conventional coding style, then by all means take him

If you want basic things explained confusingly, terribly, and over the course of many many hours a day, feel free to take this course with Prof. Nguyen. Only take this class if you have a completely solid understanding of programming. The assignments make you have to output insanely poor literacy and are unclear constantly. Absolute waste of time.

I have never wrote a negative review for a professor before but Tuan is just AWFUL!! His main concern is if you have your camera on and not actually teaching the class. he rambles and rambles and it is very difficult to understand him. Please stay away from this class if you can, it is not worth it at all.

I seriously do not understand why he is allowed to teach. Wastes time when he yells at people to turn their cameras on. Explains the same concepts over and over again. Is inaccessible outside of class. The man knows how to code but he doesn't know how to properly use Canvas. He's also mean. Seriously, don't take this guy.

If you don't want to show up to class don't bother selecting his class. If you want to know what is happening with your grade/homework don't bother since he won't give you any info. Disorganized, instruction is unclear and he has certain rules that is over the top that can get you an F if not met. Very difficult if you are first time coding.

Instructions for his class was always super unclear and weirdly strict with instructions on submission and projects. He doesn't know how to use Canvas at all, explains a concept 10x and condescending. Will yell at students for not having their camera on and just be overall a mean guy. Do yourself a favor and don't take this class.

With the amount of options available through California and online classes now being more common. Exploring other options should be your choice. The amount of geniune headaches and anger you will feel is simply not worth it. Abuses tenure like is a joke and will show it to your face. Avoid avoid avoid. There just so many other options out there.

Annoying to listen to sometimes and gives very unclear instructions. At the end of the semester, he was supposed to teach us arrays for the final but he did not show up for a week and my class couldn't accurately do the final.

- Will yell at you to an extent for not understanding course material when first introduced within 30 seconds.

Amazing professor. I've learned a lot from him, but most importantly learned it's vital to research your professors beforehand, a real good skill to have. If you read other reviews, you'll see his class is a lot like solving a puzzle: Instead of using your own logic, you instead are tasked with finding out HIS logic. In short, you won't learn much.

Seems Tuan hasn't changed over the years, so I'll share my story. Honestly, terrible person. The first session he spent 30 minutes insulting a student for not knowing what compiler to use, causing them to stop showing up. He's also too incompetent to know how to teach, or even take homework. His tenure has to be some sort of mistake in their system

if you would like to be inspired he is not the professor for you. Sadly he is my uncle so I basically live with him so God help me please and thanks

Professor Tuan Nguyen's CIS25 class was disorganized and ineffective. Assignments were rarely checked and no feedback was provided. The lectures were hard to follow due to a strong accent and lack of clear focus. Course materials and grades were not communicated through Canvas, causing confusion. Grades were hastily issued at the end of the course.

I strongly advise against taking this professor's class. His lectures were unhelpful and confusing, leaving me to study everything on my own. Additionally, unclear homework instructions led to unnecessary revisions and wasted time. Overall, my experience was negative and I would not recommend this class.

Avoid if possible. Long, draining, unhelpful lectures with required attendance (cameras on). Tends to just change up projects on a whim. Final exam problem was incredibly difficult and frustrating -- basically no one was able to solve it. He did give out some A grades in the end, likely just to avoid any hassle or extra work.

Already knew C++ but had to get it out of the way for my degree program. If we go by the programming style he "teaches" in his class, I bet the programs he writes for the industry are ones that get replaced less than a week later. You'll learn more looking at source code from amateurs. If you're a programmer and want a good laugh, take his class.

All the horror stories in the reviews are true. Your answer to taking his class is very simple; Don't.

don't, don't take his class. thanks.

Tuan Nguyen is an example of a professor who does everything wrong as a professor. Bad style, harsh grader, terrible teaching, very stubborn, encourages bad practices. He boasts about how high his qualifications are so it makes no sense how he's so bad at it. He is proof tenure is a joke, as for whatever reason it routinely goes to terrible people.