Gives very detailed lectures, happy to answer questions. Also provides power points, so you can keep up without going to class. Convenient for those who can learn on their own and don't want to sit trough slow lectures. Overall a great teacher, would take him again and recommend him. Tests are like the homework. Do the hw, do well on the test.

Amazing professor. Broke everything down to the basics for students who needed it, but could immediately turn around and answer complex questions from others. At the end of the semester, he let me make up all my homework because he said I didn't deserve the grades I had gotten, which ended up letting me get an A.

Really good prof. Nice guy willing to help. Tests are like HW and notes. Lectures are a little dry but take him if you can.

Super easy teacher for Computer Architecture, barely ever came to class, and pulled a B+

Zak is an awesome professor! Does not subscribe to the law of teaching by failing. Really tries to get the student interested and is always willing to help out, including outside duties like resume editing and career advice.

Take him if you can! Very helpful and easy.

This professor is excellent. It makes the class an easy ride guarantying that you really learn. You cannot ask for more.

This man has crystal clear power points that make the class easy to learn. he's extremely nice, not strict at all, and makes his tests easy. I highly recommend this man. Also, I didn't have to buy the textbook.

Never showed up for class, couldnt hear him anyway his voice is low. Only showed up for tests and left the class with a 98%. Dont buy the book, read his power points, no pop quizzes final was take home group assignment. EZ A. Enough said...

Zack makes all his tests and homeworks based off his power points, and those power points are crystal clear and straightforward to understand. He makes is so that you don't need to show up to class. Don't buy the textbook. He made the class so easy that if you don't get an A, it's because you didn't want it.

Most of the people taking this class already know C. I knew nothing about it. The class moved a little too fast for me, but the teacher is helpful and responds to questions on webct. 50% HW & 1 pages of notes on tets :).Make friends, study together, and you should at least get an A. If you know C...easy A. Avg test grade is an B, HW is an A.

Dr. Abichar is one of the only professors in the EE/CpE program whom I respect. He wants you to learn. He will go to great lengths to make sure you understand. His tests are easy as they come from the slides. Attend class and you're almost guaranteed an A. Very reasonable on grading. This is what a professor should be like.

Fairly easy class, the first few lectures are extremely boring for since it was a review of intro to computers. Labs aren't mandatory just do three fairly easy projects worth 30% total. Homework can be done from lecture slides, exams are from homework and lecture slides. Not exactly necessary to show up for lecture just read slides.

Read lecture notes and you'll do fine for everything. No curve balls from him. If he is teaching a class take him.

Not as easy as he used to be! His tests have gotten harder. It is easy to pass his class, but it's pretty hard to get an A unless you already know how to program (and by "program" I mean actually write complicated functions with arrays, recursions, structs, etc.). All the questions come from his slides but there are over 450 slides! Good luck.

Dr. Abichar is a really decent professor. His exams are a curveball due to the sheer amount of material covered in the class, but the material tested is very fair. Come to class, take notes, go to office hours, and you'll pass for sure. How well you pass is dependent on how much you care, but Dr. Abichar makes his lectures engaging.

Dr. Abichar is super caring and brilliant. His TAs were horrible, they never left why points were taken off from hw. Homework is difficult but you can ask Dr.A for help. Exams questions are taken directly from HWs and charts/tables in CLASS. STUDY THE TABLES HE FILLS OUT. They are ALWAYS on exams.

There is a lot of material to cover in this class, but Abichar manages lectures efficiently. Most of the material is available online, but I highly suggest attending lectures. The exam problems are mainly from the homework, but some of the problems are less problem based and more memorization. Easy A if you put in the time.

Excellent professor. He knows the material and very well and does a good job teaching it. Assignments are long and not easy but tests are!!

Exams are largely based of the lectures. If you show up to every class and take notes you will do great. Study your notes and homeworks to do well on the exams. He adjusts the grades to make a C+ the average an A is usually 87/88. Biggest issue is the grading. Always review your exams and homeworks incase of grading mistakes.

Very organized, and makes Computer Architecture interesting even for non-CpE majors. He has his old Ppts posted on Webcourses, but handwrites his notes during class so it's easy to follow along. Only downside was that our assignments took forever to be graded, so it's hard to know where you stand in the course. Overall, a great prof.

Great professor and very understanding person. Content is tough but his office hours are extremely helpful. Lectures are important because notes are handwritten but time goes by quicker.

I've heard mixed things about Abichar, so here's my take. He's very lecture heavy and both his notes online and in lecture are the key to your success in the course. His grading on Hmk and Tests are fair, as long as you study even a little bit you'll pass. I don't think he curved the final grade, but he probably did on the final exam. Not bad.

It's clear that Abichar is passionate about the material and he gets you curious about Comp Architecture. Go to class, take notes (everything is based on his lecture notes), and your grade will be fine. Super accessible in office hours. Fair grader (lots of T/F on exams).

Professor Abichar is a talented professor. I have learnt a lot and his absolute willing to help students made me approaching him in office hours for further clarifications. Overall, one of the best classes at UCF.

He wrote the new lab manual so the lecture will never be ahead of the concepts. You'll have to keep up with the labs and try not to submit a lab report late. Homeworks are tough but is about 80% of the exams, so study it but also try to not overlook the concepts discussed in class. Fair grader, go to office hours if you have questions.

Very nice guy and good professor. He explains things very clearly

He's very knowledgeable about the MSP430 MCU which is used in class. Lectures have a good amount of detail and well aligned for homeworks, labs, and tests. The only caveat is that 10-15% of exam has extremely random questions that are difficult to anticipate. 3 exams are worth 70% total, so it can be very hard to recover from a mediocre exam grade.

Prof Abichar is a good professor in my opinion. He explains things well and is a nice guy. However, I warn you that his exams typically have a bunch of unexpected questions covering things BRIEFLY mentioned in class. As a person who has a lot of experience with programming compared to other students, even I found this class to be hard at times.

I already knew too much before taking this class, and it was during an over-full summer so I didn't give it as much attention as needed. However, he did a great job during lectures. He was VERY patient with questions that honestly shouldn't need to be asked imho. If you have trouble with coding, this is a good instructor for your first experience.

His lectures can be somewhat boring at times, but I have a very good time learning from Dr. Abichar. Very straightforward teaching, very engaging lab projects, and homework is easy to complete with notes.

Really nice and tries his best to answer questions. Works out problems on the board and hands down is the best Intro to C prof at UCF. Lots of slides and videos online to help. Only complaint is his tests don't follow the lecture and are nit picky. HW is straight from in class examples. Covers a lot and really prepares you for CS 1.

A great professor. He teaches the material well and goes over how to do problems in class. His test material is very reasonable based on what he covers in class and the homework. He goes over homework before the test so you know where you might have gone wrong, which is very nice. He is also very helpful in office hours. I would take him again.

Took this class during remote/quarantine. He wrote pretty much everything he said during lecture on paper as diagrams, pictures, code, and explanations. All during lecture. It was absolutely amazing! Made the material easy to understand and easy to go back and study

If you have to take him online due to his monotone nature he is very boring. The lectures will teach you everything you need to know. The HW is LONG and can be extremely tedious. The project was easy. Take him in person only imo.

He is a great professor in my opinion! I have taken him for 3 classes so far. His tests are hard but if you know his lecture materials and the homework properly - you should at least get a B! Make sure to study and re-watch his lectures thoroughly before the tests

Abichar was cool and taught well. Grades leaned heavily on three tests. Doing the homework and reviewing the slides was very necessary to get a good grade; multiple choice was at times trivia based off of small facts mentioned only once in the slides. Homework was straightforward but took a couple hours each week to do. Project was a breeze.

Ok, I may have gotten a C but Abichar isn't a bad teacher. Show up to lecture and you'll understand the material. Homework was actually pretty fun to work with and test. Tests were a little abysmal though. READ HIS POWERPOINTS, some questions are nitpicky.

Decent teacher, if you go to his lectures then the homework will be a breeze. If you do the homework, go to lectures, and review the ppts then the exams are fine. Main problem was he was nitpicky on the multiple choice where he would test on things only mentioned once in a lecture. Make sure to look at any code he uploads as questions are in there.

Everything you'll be tested on come straight from the lectures. HW and lab is straightforward enough if you take notes. Tests however are very detail-oriented, so be sure to study a lot for them. His monotone voice can make lectures a little boring, but he's passionate about what he teaches. Can't go wrong with taking him.

Great Professor cant say anything else .

One of the few classes where I didn't have to teach myself everything through the textbook. Just go to lectures (or watch recorded versions of them), pay attention and you will get a decent grade on the exams which compose the vast majority of your grade. People mention he is monotone, but what's more important is that he's nice and understandable.

Dr. Abichar has a really great wealth of knowledge on the subject and clearly very passionate. His lectures are clear and informative. The exams are all multiple-choice and true false. The class is not hard. BUT the labs. The labs for this class are egregious. They are cool, but take way longer than the allotted lab time.

One of the best professors af UCF. Very kind and caring to his students and helpful during office hours. Reviews exam topic material very thoroughly a few days before the exam and not the day before to give you time. Very neat and organized and lectures are very straight forward. This class is tough bc it is a lot of information but not hard topics

Awesome professor. Super knowledgeable and well spoken and organized. The labs are demanding but the exams are based on them so it's not that hard.

Exams: 70% of the course & are essentially 150 T/F questions. Labs: 15% but you are going to spend 10+ hours a week writing code/reports. The rest is straightforward HW. I loved this professor, he was nice, caring, really took the time to explain. The TAs though, so many cheating accusations & 0s. Don't underestimate the work you'll need to do.

Good lectures but, average test grades were relatively low.

Dr. Abichar's class is extremely difficult, with you needing to put more effort in this class than the other classes you have taken previously. The labs are very difficult and will likely consume most of your week, and the exams require extensive preparation to get a good grade, but attending the lectures will prepare you for both of these.

Abichar's Embedded Systems was difficult yet it was one of my favorite classes here at UCF. This class is enjoyable if you enjoy the subject. Otherwise, it is really hard with the weekly lab check-offs and difficult exams, which are word for word, his lectures. He was very kind during office hours, too.

Professor explains topics in a clear and concise manner. Provides opportunities for students to answer questions that help develop their understanding of the material and provides a chance for students to ask clarifying questions. Homework was simple as professor solves similar problems in class. Exams were easy if you understood the homework.

Dr. Abichar truly is an outstanding teacher who is very passionate about Embedded Systems. His class this summer was not that bad, five homework assignments (15%) , the highest nine of the 11 total labs (15%), and three midterm exams (70%, 23.33% each-there is no comprehensive final exam) form your class grade. He is helpful in his office hours.

Abichar is not a bad professor if you pay attention to his lectures and do the work. His exams can be difficult but you study and prepare you will be fine. The hardest part is lab, is it very important to read the lab manual and not cheat! Also mentally prepare to spend time for this class.

The professor himself is great. The class has 110 points possible, but still graded out of 100 points, so it's curved already. However, the class is really lab-focused, and the TAs are very critical. You do get the option to do a project instead of the last 2 labs, but still, the lab TAs are pretty harsh.