Reviews of professor Andrew Forward

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
His grading was very good, although the quizzes were graded by the students, you were able to argue to the prof for a better grade. His exam was exactly like his practice final he gave us prior.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is unqualified to teach SEG 3101 as his super messy material and unorganized teaching support. His lecture notes are like abstract paintings make you loss of judgement for key points. His video records are even more clownish, as if he was a rapper who flaunts his talking speed. He just kept slipping over or talk fast especially on key points.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Mismanaged class. Nobody knows what to expect for exams. Very little material to learn from. Labs are so error prone and frustrating. I doubt most students are learning anything in this mess of a class. Avoid!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I liked Prof. Forward. His style is different from most profs, he's less structured in his teaching , however you will learn a lot with him. He wants to expose you to as many real-world software engineering concepts as possible. He integrated Elixir in Summer 2021's curriculum so that was cool. He's approachable, down to earth, and easy marker.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Doesn't prepare you for assignments properly. Gave us an assignment that uses elixir, a language no one knows or uses. Why not just use java to test our knowledge on the material learnt in class. His lectures were very condensed and hard to follow. Lab aren't very understandable as the slides have little to no instructions in them.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Pretty chill guy but his recorded lectures are basically text-to-speech of slides and he can't offer further examples/clarification that isn't contradictory. He made the simplest concepts really confusing. Not to mention the lack of co-ordination between him and his TAs on what they expect from students regarding projects.