This guy does the bare minimum as a teacher. His teaching is not very good, the assignments are difficult and he is not very helpful overall.

I wouldnt take another class with him. Just to basic and then you are thrown into assignments and midterms on deeper concepts. Class is boring as he takes 15-20 min to start off with some random drawing. It might seem like a chill class, until the midterm or assignments come in. DONT BE FOOLED BY THE FIRST FEW ASSIGNMENTS

Couldn't learn much from Victor, so you heavily find solutions and study materials on Google. He seems a chill guy, but to me, he just doesn't care the course. It feels like he copies and pastes the content from textbook, and he makes it even complicated. Assignments are difficult, but don't expect helps from the class.

I took CMPT125 with Victor. it was his first time teaching the course. Lectures were so boring and I could basically sleep with my eyes open if I wanted to. Programming is learnt well when you see a lot of example, and code with your teacher at the same time, but he does nothing like that, and then you get some very difficult projects to do!!!

He actually seems like a chill mate, but all his assignment are hard af but nothing he has taught was related to assignment. Basiclly you have to google urself for approx. 80% of the assignment. Avoid Victor if u don't want to spend all of your time on this course.

Assignments are a waste of time. Lectures barely help when completing the assignments. You'll regret taking this useless course...

One of the worst profs I've had at SFU. Yes the class is easy because he gives everyone an A on every assignment and project until the very end. He then assign very low grades to the whole class to bring down the average for no good reason. You will get at least a B doing nothing in the class. If you want anything higher it will be mostly luck.

Victor is an absolutely horrendous lecturer. Just reads his slides word for word and does not attempt to expand on or explain the topics clearly. When people do not participate, which happens because of how poorly he lectures, he becomes passive aggressive and makes snide comments about the students. Course work not related to final whatsoever.

Very unapproachable professor when it comes to grading. The criteria are extremely ambiguous and he does not like it when you bring up valid points. He will attack another section and justify his grading.

His lectures are definitely a bit lacking and not really useful. The only reason people are giving him a good review is that his assignment grading is usually quite lenient. Other than the fact you can get a decent grade easily, the class will not teach you much.

This class has a very high workload so make sure your schedule only consists of 1 or 2 computer classes. The group project is heavy and you need to know friends in the class in order to not have issues later down the road regarding who does what. The curve is big so know that your A will become a B and your B will become a C.

Very group project heavy especially since the groups are around 4-5 members each.

final grade 78% for C+ in this course. For the very heavy project, you should learn UI/UX tools by yourself. The project is 85 pts totally we got 78(which is a high grade in class)but minus 5 directly with the late 10 mins contribution form. Very rule-oriented and even strict.

We were given multiple previous midterm to practice but the actual midterm ended up having concepts that did not show up in the previous ones.

The midterm average was 40%. Victor expected 200 nervous first-years to write perfect compliable code on paper in a 90-minute timeframe. If even one line of code was missing, TAs assigned a zero for the whole question. Offers no lecture recordings for sick or absent students. Labs were run by braindead TAs who had zero public speaking ability.

Would not recommend taking this guy. Every lecture, this guy only reads off his slides and his notes are very difficult to follow along.

I am sure that most people have said what I want to but I have never met a more uninspiring prof in my life, I get that CS is hard, but he makes something that the majority of us love into something we hate, and its sad in my opinion to see how many students who are genuinely gifted in the field turn away from their passion because of Victor.

Hint: when you say solutions please provide some form of answers

Kickstarts his Sahara desert-dry lectures that seem to last multiple lifetimes with terrible memes. Content of the notes themselves lackluster as well. Makes the jump in difficulty of content compared to 120 THAT much worse. Never again.

Only 4 assignments no quizzes, 1 midterm and final. Very bad for trying to bring your grade up everything depends on 4 challenging assignments which didn't start off easy. TAs gave the assignment a 0 if even one line didn't work they never cared to give marks based on trying the assignment. Doing well in other classes but going to fail this one.

Whatever you do, do not take Victor as your professor. If he is the only available professor, take an elective instead. 1. Expects students to write pristine code 2. No partial marking, most likely 0 if you get something wrong 3. Boring lectures, useless TA's 4. Midterm average was 40% 5. The jump from 120 to 125 was cruel to be honest

Victor's final exam demanded a high level of detail retention, and the lectures could benefit from being more concise, as it seems like he's prolonging the lectures unnecessarily to fill 3 hours. If u want to commute for 2 hours and spend 3 hours sitting in a lecture hall for very little information every week take this course with professor victor

Victor's class was rather boring and he did not do anything to try to make it interesting. Also, his attitude was quite poor and was condescending at times. However, the course content is not hard, as even though I paid 0 attention in his class, I still expect to get around an A-. Overall, won't take any classes with him again.

It was incredibly difficult to learn anything from Victor's lectures. He talks very fast and nonstop and there is no engagement to check your understanding. I understand that CMPT125 is already a hard course with lots of content, but it felt like Victor made it even harder. Assignments were obscure but fair, exams okay. Labs were a joke.

Mickey mouse class, the assignments are pretty easy, but the final was a joke. He intentionally made the questions in class material heavy due to nobody showing up. The course content was heavily irrelevant and boring. Victor was clearly butt hurt from the lack of attendance. Avoid if you can.

It started as an ordinary introductory course but then his lectures became dense and boring. Midterm average turned out to be 44% and then the students were blamed as the test was "easier". TAs and prof were unapproachable and feedback was mostly "You should know how to do this by now". Blank solution keys as well or just hints. Not enough support.

Just read off slides during lectures, most problem-set solutions were 'left for exercise', blamed students' lack of effort for poor exam averages. There was lack of help available for students and Victor often had a bad attitude making him quite inaccessible. The assignments were not that difficult, but exams were very unfair with awful grading.

I think that it is crucial to consider the purpose of a course. Does it teaches and tests on practical and relevant knowledge or skills for your future, or is it focused on attending lectures, listening, and memorizing trivial and irrelevant information? Based on 100w, it seems that Victor's course philosophy aligns more with the latter approach.

Arbitrarily canceled CMPT263 course offering almost a month after people completed their enrollment plans and now everything else is on a waitlist.

Very bad at teaching, strong accent, do not take at any cost

The assignments were relatively easy, however, beware of the final. Victor was noticeably angry about the lack of attendance which resulted in the final having incredibly specific questions. The course in general was "uninteresting" for lack of a better term, as many of the concepts learnt were english related or just general CS trivia.

Victor overcomplicates his lectures, has very difficult assignments that are unrelated to the exams, and offers little support. He gave incomplete "solutions" to help us study for the midterm so the midterm average was 40% and he blamed the students(???). Useless lab and TAs as well. If you have less than 3 years of C experience avoid at ALL costs.

Victor is a pretty terrible prof. His lectures are incredibly dry and it is impossible to stay interested during the two hour lectures. His midterm was whatever, it was like a 54% average. The final was kind of tough so study the final samples if you want to do good; he sort of just copy pastes it, which was pretty unexpected.Assignments are tough.

If you want to hate C programming, take his course. Lectures are extremely boring and useless; reads of the slides. Assignments had nothing to do with what we were learning, and if he needed something in the assignment that wasn't covered in class. The tests were difficult students were criticized for the low marks.

Victor's lectures were near useless. He decided to blame the class for not being "proactive" enough. He was so bitter that in the final announcement he said "I hope the results from the final exam serve as another wake up call for you to put effort in the courses your are taking." How about you put in more effort in the lectures "your are" doing.

If you want to hate CS this course is for you.

Perfect professor if you are looking for a way to put your money to the trash bin. Do not forget to bring your pillow to the lectures as his lectures are designed to give you a rest! Oh I forgot to mention the exciting labs where you can learn nothing at all. Do not worry, you will learn the actual content of the course in your dreams.

Rate my prof should start having negative rating cuz 0 is too much for him.

Very unclear and unfair grading criteria...

Please avoid Victor AT ALL COST, even for easy classes. Every time I have him, he makes it 100x harder than it needs to be. He loveeees to provoke the class after exams for having bad marks when he's the one finding every way possible to reduce our grades to ashes. His lectures are also boring and he still blames the class for not coming.

the vladimir putin of sfu profs

The content is easy since CMPT120 only covers basic python. Exams were PAINFUL. He puts trick questions that are designed to make you fail. I was getting 100% on assignments but bombed the midterm because he nitpicks at the SMALLEST details to give you the lowest mark. And he taunted us in a public announcement after releasing our marks.

EVIL!

Yeah, even though there are gradings criteria, its still unclear af. Avoid at all cost..

So So terrible the class and him. He belittled students for asking questions. Dropping out is better than taking a class with him.

All the 125 reviews are right. It transferred onto this class. He mocked us for our MT average (57%), is condescending when it comes to answering questions, and clowns us when we don't know how to code certain concepts which he gave little no to guidance on. Also, half the course was boring yap abt his DSA drawings, and slides with typos

at least i'm done

Why have I lost ALL my hair this semester? This was the most stress inducing class I have ever taken. He was egotistical and unorganized for exams. The slides were always incorrect; Now, I wonder if he works as a part-time mime since his hand motions have taught me more American Sign Language than Data Structures & Algorithms in 13 weeks. RUN AWAY.

Just an all around terrible experience. The whole class is completely useless you will learn 100x more just looking at modern and relevant UI design and trying to recreate, alter, and understand it. There is 0 value in this course, but it also could just be Victor's teaching. UI/UX IS INTERESTING!!! But this course isn't. Avoid if you can.

the joseph stalin of sfu profs

I'd reccomend not taking Victor unless you are a masochist.

Id rather drown in the koi pond than take this class again. Midterm avg was failing; not showing up to class is a better use of your time.

this teacher is quite literally better off using their degree teaching kindergarteners as his efforts teaching university students suck tremendously. no one should come near this teacher if they have a choice, the labs have no connection or meaning to the lecture which does not prepare you at all. blames the class for his own failure to teach.

Victor Cheung is a boring lecturer and strict marker. In CMPT263, there are many questions that are both asked in an unclear way and require subjective answers on exams. Victor nitpicks this questions to bring the class average down. Very boring prof and very boring class, but do it with someone else so you can get a better grade on the exams.

A strict or rather tough prof hich doesnt help much in transitioning to a 10x more tough course compared to cmpt 120. Better be over prepared and code everyday and make use of online resources as well as offic hours etc.

Victor Cheung seems insecure about the difficulty of 263. He often brings up how people think it's a GPA booster and adds arbitrary difficulty. Grading is unclear, rubrics aren't helpful, and marks feel randomly deducted. He discourages independent learning and penalizes students who skip lectures.

Worst prof at SFU. He's not actually a tough grader, that's not the issue. His grading is completely random and inconsistent.