His lectures are INCREDIBLY boring, its so hard to sit through his class. Leaves TONS of homework and really hard programming projects for people who are just learning how to program. Always gives you pop quizzes and he is a very hard grader.

Had to drop his class half the way through. This guy does not know how to teach. Boring, demanding, discouraging and completely depressing. Avoid at all costs

Awful. He is one of the most condescending professors I have ever had. His lectures only left me more confused and I wound up teaching most of this course to myself. He is very heavy on work outside of class as well. Avoid at all costs.

Would not take again. I'm teaching myself java from the book and YouTube videos. If you don't understand something, don't even bother asking, he will get mad. Pop quizzes all the time. The students in the class are usually confused. I feel as if he means well, but he goes about teaching material the wrong way. Awful experience. Would not reccomend

Grades are given out almost arbitrarily and rely very heavily on naming files correctly instead of content. I was very excited to take and this professor has made it my least favorite course of the semester and also possibly the least informative of all my courses so far here at Loyola.

The worst class I have ever taken here at Loyola. An awful professor, an awful book, and a ridiculous scoring method which will take off 5 points for breathing to heavily. He relies on you learning everything yourself by reading the poorly written textbook. Has a lab component so twice a week I'm sitting for two hours listening to him ramble.

No clear grading rubric. You can lose points for anything, like if he tells you to name something for the assignment (you make them up), but he didn't like what you named them. On assignments there are only 15 points that you are told how to get, but everything is out of 20.

Does not give clear grading criteria, which makes it hard to do assignments correctly. Does not actually teach you, you do the readings and teach yourself. Its very hard.

I do not recommend taking this professor by all means! The worst professor I've ever had. He does not teach you anything but requires you to be in class for "group work". You teach yourself with help from online or textbook. He is very unclear on his assignments especially on exams! Very inconsistent grading criteria which will effect your grade.

Do not take him unless you want to be confused 90% of the time. One of the worst professors I've ever had. Smart guy but doesn't actually give lectures to teach the material. Class is textbook driven, attendance is mandatory. I learned more from others. Grading is always strange. You can still survive, if you put in the work to learn on your own.

He's smart, but he lacks all communication skills. He shows up in 80s clothes and and white hair, and he spits out words. He doesn't make much sense, and his explanations only make things more complicated. He doesn't check email, he's not easily accessible. Tutoring is your best bet.

I don't know how he still teaches at Loyola despite his negative criticisms? His assignments are not clear, marks off points if your code isn't "beautiful", and is the most incompetent teacher ever! He just babbles on the whole entire lecture as if he knows everything and makes his students more confused than they have to be. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!

The class is flipped therefore he doesn't teach during lectures like the other professors did which I didn't like. He was not the best at returning emails or communicating outside of class, meaning I would send an email and he would either respond a week later or not at all, as well as not very accessible for OH.

Dr. Honig cares about his students and their learning, but I really couldn't wrap my head around his backwards teaching. Class time is supposed to be for the teacher to teach the students, and homework time is to practice, not the other way around. He would beat around the bush when answering questions as well.

Easily the worst professor I have ever taken in my entire life. His teaching style is laughable and completely backwards. If you are coming into this class with no prior programming knowledge, good luck. Also will give you 0's for assignments you completed and never responds to emails. Extremely inaccessible outside of the classroom as well.

Do not ever take this professor.

All of the ratings above a 2 are him on alt accounts. Do not ever take this professor.

The most inaccessible and authoritarian professor I've had. I would take another professor if possible because he will not answer questions in class or over email.

The class was absolutely DREADFUL. Mans a certified yapper; he refuses to teach the material and expects you to know the material when entering the class. He gives you whatever grade he wants on assignments and he either takes 3 weeks to respond to e-mails or never responds. If you have him for 170 or 271, good luck, and endure. DREADFUL professor.

He is not very organized when it comes to timing class and we have to take 10 minuets quizzes in 4 minuets. instructions for homework was very unclear. A lot of poc students felt that he was being unfair when it comes to grading them. He is unapproachable and can be rude over email and sometimes in person, too. DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASSES AT ALL COSTS.

This class was unnecessarily difficult. I had worried the entire semester because there was so much work: quizzes, group projects, discussion, individual assignment etc. He had us grade our group members and tell them why we gave them a low score. His grading was iffy and would find any reason to dock points.

His class is a joke. Man is fluent in YAPANESE. Everything on Sakai is really disorganized with too much to keep track of. Study guide for the midterm does not help at all. He forces participation in goofy activities that don't help. Assumes we know everything there is to java. His teaching style is attrocious and unacceptable.

AVOID AVOID! If you can take any other professor for this course, do it. I ignored the bad ratings and took him but don't make the same mistake I did. Switch classes!! Class is way too hard and his sakai is way too disorganized. There's way too much happening with assignments and tests and a final project. Let's see if I can pass. Will update

This was one of the hardest classes, although it didn't need to be. The assignments are very disorganized and it is very hard to keep track of what is due when. Because of that, you can easily fall behind. He also rarely responds to emails, and can come across as rude over email.

The professor is someone who's often talking a lot and not teaching. The class is supposed to be an introduction to the subject but he treats it as if people are supposed to know the subject instead of helping them get it.

As someone with a background in technology who already knows most of the things being taught, I hate to say that this guy is not a good professor. We started behind because he had difficulty setting up class VMs (which we didn't need anyway). His explanations of data types are vague and confusing. Edit 4/14/25: Exam 2 had a 65% fail rate

One of the worst CS Professors I've had so far. He is very unorganized. He only goes by the textbook. His "code demonstrations" are poorly executed, and he's not good at explaining anything. Was pretty much on your learning. He is a harsh grader; the class average for exams was 65%. He gave me a zero for a lab I completed because of a tech error.

The flipped classroom failed because the professor was unprepared and provided no clear guidance. Class discussions were unfocused and assignments lacked proper instructions, leaving students confused. The poor 60% class average on Exam II shows the approach didn't work. This leaves me concerned for Data Structures II.

95% of this semester was spent playing towers of hanoi and vibe coding.

They confused basic concept, such as listed or Hash lists, definitions obeyed confused groups and half. I'm sure they even read the half code - she jumped into the group and took the day. The more bad, they like zero cases. Data market is the backbone of IT, but the professor knows empty blogs. If you are caught, I hope it's good.

Not good at all. Honestly the other responses sum it all up, and I would never retake him, He has no clue what's going on himself. His TA understood his lack of communication and effort, but could not do anything because of his ridiculous rules. Often, time uses "in the real world" as examples but I can assure you whatever he says will happen wont.