He is by far the worst teacher that I've had at UTD. His course is poorly structured, with excessive homework that's basically worthless for understanding the material. His exams are abysmally difficult (a 65 is considered an A-). I don't know how he was allowed to take this class, everyone is basically teaching themselves the material.

Heavy accent, and doesn't really explain things in detail as he should. Very quiet and hard to understand along with the fact that he just read slides, doesn't bode well for the class.

He doesn't really explain things and reads right from the sides. The class is based on ridiculously hard tests and homework which doesn't make any sense.

Extremely hard to understand his accent, on top of that he practically mumbles/murmurs everything and it seems like I have to try harder to hear what he is saying than understand what the actual concept is about. To make matters worse he is just reading the slides off, and although the attendance is mandatory the lectures don't help at all.

Dr. Chin is nice and wants you to succeed, though he falls short on communicative skills and has a monotonous voice. Very difficult to understand him even when he is wearing a microphone. Thick accent. You will be teaching yourself even though attendance is 10% of the grade. Most students play games on their laptop during lecture. Do not take.

Don't waste your money by choosing this professor. You can skip all the classes and study by book. Doesn't curve the grade. Choose him when you have no option left.

Very note and lecture heavy, he just reads off powerpoints. Tells students not to take notes on paper, because it's all online and you should look it up later. He has a heavy accent and breezes through materials. If you want to suffer through boring slides, and a lazy teacher take him. You'll be better off waiting to take it with someone else.

Professor Chin knows what he is doing, but in his lectures he mumbled to himself while facing the board. He also has a heavy accent. All of this combined makes the lectures very hard to understand. There is lots of homework which helps quite a bit. He also does a massive curve. I turned in the final almost blank and got a B-.

Very heavy accent, just reads off the slides, and the exams and homework are ridiculously difficult. DO NOT TAKE!

When I say tough grader, I mean the TA doesn't specify how they graded your stuff. The TA might as well be a RNG because you have no feedback. The professor talks extremely quietly, his homeworks are boring and have no meaning. This class is entirely pointless and is just a derivative of the 3 credit hour course. I don't rec this professor.

Do not take this professor, his TA grades the homework which is 30% of your grade on a weird scale and will mark questions you got right, as incorrect. The professor himself is not understanding whatsoever and his lectures make no sense and his tests are crazy difficult.

Cause of the whole coronavirus pandemic online classes were introduced and attendance was taken off and switched with either discussions, quizzes, or nothing at all. Chin still checks for attendance each lecture and he records the lecture too for you to watch later but expects you to show up to each lecture and will count you late too like what.

The tests are crazy hard and his accent is very harsh. Did not learn anything as everything goes by so fast. Only potentially good thing is the curve.

Very boring professor. Reads directly off powerpoint slides. Homework felt like busy-work. Homework are not well defined. Does not give feedback when grading. You will receive a 90 instead of 100 for homework despite following the instructions perfectly (only "unique" submissions will get 100). Learned nothing of value - do not take if possible.

Avoid this professor at all costs. He reads directly from the slides and says not to take notes because its online. The homeworks are all on Chegg/Slader and are just busy work. You will get -10 on your homework for no reason. The tests are very hard. Most people worked on homework or watched Netflix during lectures.

Lectures are boring and he just reads of every slide. Homework doesn't help and is just busywork. Tests are incredibly difficult and he goes through every chapter way too fast and the class just feels like a self-study. Only decent thing is the massive curve he applies because the test are difficult.

I like Chin as a person. He's very sweet and quiet. However, as a teacher, he is incredibly difficult. His tests are insanely hard and we move through materials much quicker than other discrete math classes. The actual material isn't particularly difficult, but a ton of self studying is required and there's a lot to memorize. Avoid.

Lectures were dull with him only reading of the slides, many like me just took notes off the slides themselves and self practiced. The exams were atrocious with using bad proctoring software. His only saving grace is his fat curves on grades but for a class, this is the bottom of the barrel. DONT TAKE THIS CLASS FOR GOOD GRADES OR LEARNING.

Assigns literal mountains of homework. When snowstorm Uri hit Texas and the state was left without power for the better part of a week the school closed. Prof Chin moved the due date for 8 assignments on the first day the school reopened. His advice for all this was a slightly professional sounding "Figure it out :)". AVOID AT ALL COSTS

Exams were extremely specific, and he made the course topics way harder than they needed to be. He would also randomly give us assignments due later that day that we found out about in class. If you can, take another professor for CS1200.

Lectured in a thick monotone accent and read directly off the slides. Assigns excessive homework that does very little in terms of actually helping you understand the material. The exams were erroneously difficult and specific. The exam grades receive a massive curve to make up for the difficulty.

Talks in a very monotonous voice with a thick accent. The entire lecture consists of him reading off slides and mumbling. The homework and exams are very difficult. The only good thing is a massive curve at the end. I ended with a 34 on the midterm and a (40?) on the second but ended with a B-. Would not recommend this professor at all.

Dr. Chin lectures straight from the textbook (though that might've been partially due to online classes). He gives sparse homework but cares way more about following rules than effort. Exams are 50% gimme questions, 20% tough questions, and 30% impossible questions, which is why nobody gets an F but nobody gets an A.

If you have the chance to not take him, don't. Here is why: he mumbles through his lectures, he does lots of group projects and everyone gets the same grade, if one person turns in a paper late everyone gets a zero, he makes the class 10x harder than it should be. If you take him: study the textbook, check deadlines, get to know your group.

His lectures provide nothing of value & he mumbles so badly. One of the hws is an 8h volunteer activity where you have to volunteer in a 'technical capacity' which I had to miss a day of work at my actual job to attend. There's also a group project. Take another prof for this class is you have to take it.

I didn't enjoy this one hour class at all, we had to write a lot, volunteer, we had pop quizzes but worst of all he would never give 100 on assignments because he says there is always room for improvement which was ridiculous given the effort I put into some assignments. Avoid if you can because isn't worth it.

He grades hard, and his accent makes it impossible to learn. Trust me, you don't want to take him.

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. Amount of hw he gives is insane and doesnt help at all to prepare for the exam. When asking about our midterm he replied "I didnt make it yet" His heavy accent is hard to understand and seems like hes talking to himself plus the mask further makes him sound muffled. Only good thing is the curve he does for exams.

i'm sure he's nice but it is genuinely so hard to understand professor chin, especially because he moved online and this isn't because of his accent. good luck engaging in his lectures unless you have an amazing attention span. the entire class is basically just riding on his heavy curves. if you don't wanna teach yourself, don't bother.

Do not take this professor, I cannot express this enough. Reads off of lecture slides which he posts online but attendance is still mandatory. Exams are difficult for no reason!!! Pop Quizzes happen all the time even for attendance. Good luck passing!

he has 50-minute lectures which doesn't sound so bad until you learn that he is basically just reading off of the slides in the most boring cadence I've heard. the exams aren't based on knowing concepts and applying them, you just need to memorize the book.

This professor changed his class lecture online and is hard to understand. The exams are hard, but they do have a good curve on them.

Unrealistic expectations. Too difficult for a freshman 2 credit hour class.

I'll try and give Professor Chin the benefit of the doubt and say that he is not a bad person. The lectures are pretty hard to get through and he reads directly off the slides in a very monotone voice. The exams are pretty tough although it might not seem like it inherently. You will end up dreading this class if you take it.

Professor is an absolute failure at motivating students to pay attention. The professor has very unrealistic expectations. Do not take a class with this professor unless it's your last resort & you can afford to get a B/B- you will not get an A unless you study a lot for this class.

Heavy accent, impossible to understand a single thing he is saying. His lectures are just him reading through a PowerPoint. The exams are unnecessarily difficult and terribly worded. He will take a simple concept and turn it an exam question with the most specific answer possible. If you don't memorize the textbook you will fail

He is a nice person,but for a class with such straightforward content, it shouldn't be expected for students to be getting such low exam scores. Grading criteria is unnecessarily detailed on certain assignments and often don't make sense. Lectures are boring and a lot is based off of reading every single word on the textbook and slides

Take anyone else if possible. Tests were crazy and to score well you basically needed to memorize not only the slides but the textbook too. Assignments were mostly group and had very specific, unnecessary steps. Did not help at all.

Overall, the tests are very opinionated and if you don't agree with him, your automatically wrong. And, for the group projects, if you make a little mistake, like 20% of your score is gone. I would definitely not take again.

Genuinely the worst experience I've had in college so far. Impossible to understand in class and preaches the importance of a "growth mindset" putting the most minute restrictions on every single assignment. He's also incredibly unhelpful when contacted and hardly gives you a straight answer to whatever your question may be.

All homework / Projects strictly group work, difficult if your team doesn't cooperate with you / respond. If nothing, you are expected to do the entire project on your own and they just take a low grade or leech off. Quizzes / Exams are over the most minor details that can barely be found in textbook or slides, curve was poor >80 A, lower no change

Hardest part of the class is attendance, lectures and assignments are all useless fluff but to be fair the class is computer ethics. He takes attendance randomly and assigns pretty tedious work for a 1ch class that teaches you nothing. Avoid

I took him for the fall semester and struggled from the start. I did all the assignments and had to teach myself as he just mumbles through the lecture. It makes it very difficult to understand and you easily lose focus. I knew nothing about this class and I still don't know what I learned.

Professor Chin teaches this class very poorly he is the only professor to require you to take his tests at the testing center while other give their students the courtesy to take it online. Professor Chine also tends to mumble during his lecture and go off on useless tangents about discrete math due to him teaching discrete math. Take someone else!

If you have any option for another professor just pick the other one trust me. Grades horribly, test are over details that are so unnecessary and are not mentioned at all in class or in textbook, mumbles entire lecture.

He reads from his slides for lectures in a monotone voice and expects you to read the textbook after or before class. Understanding concepts is useless all that matters is if you can memorize most of the material covered in the slides. Doesn't respond to questions or feedback well and never posted my project grade before posting my final grade.

if you have a hope of making out of school sane, i strongly suggest not to take a class with him cuz you lose brain cells tryina to comprehend what he speaks in class.

Lectures are a waste of time - He just reads the slides, and is barely intelligible. I went to class for attendance, but would work on something else while I was there. However, the course is not hard to do well in, since the homework basically forces you to read the textbook. 1st exam is easy, the final was not, thankfully it was curved.

He just read directly from the slides. The lectures were very dry. I had to manage learning the content outside of class by myself so I could pass.

Professor Chin was very hard to understand during lectures. Mainly read off the slides and mumbled. His slides are pretty great, but if you want to do well on the exam, study the book and slides.

So many homeworks due in a short amount of time. Exams are extremely hard especially since you have to self-learn everything. His lectures are very hard to focus on since his teaching style is very monotone and boring. So if you have difficulty concentrating for a long time, you won't be able to get through his lectures.

RUN!!!! He literally makes the exams on random details learned over 10-12 very long and convoluted slideshow lectures, and there are so many trick questions! This class is a total joke and this prof manages to make it unnecessarily tricky. According to what is learned, to pass, I must be a poor listener with the lowest level of learning. 0/10

For an easy and not so important class like CS1200. The exams and quizzes are so hard and tricky for no reason at all. The lectures are long and boring, the quiz is somehow still tricky even with open book.

350 words aren't enough to talk about CS 1200 and this professor. Unfortunately, you will be forced to take him or another equally bad professor. This course itself is useless, and the professor mumbles a lot. Attendance is mandatory in the form of questions he assigns. He says what would be on the exam and it's not there?? just self-study. :/

Took him spring 2021, when Texas was hit by a massive snow storm. Despite this, he continued to assign a mountain of homework. He waited until the very last moment to change the due date, and even when he did, he made the several assignments that were due during that week due the day the power grid came back on for most people. Absolutely abysmal.

Time for some tough love. If you took Wei-Pang Chin, you have to own it. This wasn't bad luck, this was always a real possibility. You knew the risk, you went against the crowd, and you were punished. Learn and come back a better student next semester!

Dr Chin, truly is one of the professor of all time. His inspirational messages and life lessons span beyond the classroom, and into my everyday life. My life was truly changed by his kind and caring attitude towards learning, his kind and gentle hand guiding me through every topic like a hot knife through warm butter.

Run away from this guy. For an easy class like 1200 the exams and quizzes are way too difficult. If you want a early slap to the face take 1200 with him. If you don't want a C this early on RUN AWAY. He talks too softly to the point you cant even understand him and says that "Youll get an A on the exam if you read the textbook". Thats not the case.

Do not take this professor for CS 1200 if you want to have an A in your transcript. Almost all students in his class do not have an A. There are two exams and they both have extremely specific questions. Unless you are willing to spend at least 10 hours to study for his tests, do not take this professor, try to take any other professor of possible.

Do not take this professor if you want an A. Try to take any other professor if you don't want to deal with very tough tests over content that mumbles over. You can barely hear him talk half the time so I wouldn't recommmend him. Many of the questions on the test are over specific things that he would say in class.

Only lectures, reads directly form the slides, give homework at least three times a week each having 15-25 questions. Cant understand a word he's saying and slides are at least 50-120 long. Doesn't follow the syllabus and changed dates for homework at least once a week. Final covered 7 chapters and had 1/3 free response. SO MUCH WORK & NO GUIDANCE!

Unnecessarily difficult for an introductory class. Exams cover incredibly specific minute details over the slides and textbook that tend to be very opinionated. Lectures consisted of him mumbling off the slides with a thick accent. Quizzes were open book, and the projects were easy as long as your assigned group cooperated with you.

Firstly- Chin *is* a caring professor. He wants his students to succeed, but I don't think he has the mindset for being a teacher. He'll crack a joke here and there, but he makes no effort whatsoever to make his lessons engaging or to get the attention of his students. If I should "just self-learn" then what's the point of having a class at all?

Tests are always at the testing center and there is always some technical problem with the exams, or the questions are phrased in a way that entirely undermines the value of the lesson. Instead of asking what some historical quote means he'll ask you who said it. I honestly don't feel like I gained anything from this class :(

First of all, he's a great guy as a person. But for teaching, that's another story. I can tell he cares about teaching the material to us, but the execution ain't it. He reads off slides in a monotone voice. All the notes I took were just off the slides, nothing he told us (maybe except 1 or 2 things, but that's only 1 or 2 things).

He will tell you to not ask questions in class. Hd mumbles and just reads from powerpoints. His homeworks have little to do with exam. Overall he makes the class too difficult for an entry level course. He really should not be teaching and should retire.

The professor went way too fast for the material and often did not explain. He covered too much material and told you to review the slides. The class is just a memorizing class. There is no learning that happens. He will discourage questions and say to stop asking questions and he will be happy. This is not a way to teach a class.

he mumbles so much, there is an insane amount of homework (about 3 a week), he goes pretty fast and does random attendance checks. if you can avoid taking him i would /highly/ suggest it.

Really bad professor. The exams are simply impossible unless you memorize the textbook and slides down to every minute detail. I'd highly recommend steering clear of him and this school.

this guy is [email protected] !