Reviews of professor Zakariya Qawaqneh

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Qawaqneh is the man. He's my fav professor in the CS dept. He is always accessible to his students if we have questions.  He tries to help you understand the material. He knows the subject well, I feel like I learned a lot in his classes. Tests were open book and the slides were done pretty well. I recommend taking him

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Only a one credit class but definitely difficult. We only met once a week which made the lectures hard to sit through. He will call on you if you aren't paying attention but he does care that each student is learning the material. If the class met more than once a week it would make it easier to grasp everything taught.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is extremely strict and acts like a drill sergeant. He paces up and down aisles to make sure every student is paying attention. He has a very thick accent and is hard to understand. He scribbles all over the whiteboards so one cannot easily follow his notes. He will try to help you but he can't explain topics well. He has strong BO.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The directions were a bit unclear in a few classes I've taken with him but he is a good professor. He really cares about you learning and will dedicate a lot of time and effort to making sure you do.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Qawaqneh is the best professor in the department. For the ambitious students, he has lots of side projects. Not only does he help any student. But he will also provide individual lectures for students wanting to go beyond the course. Data analytics is a challenging class but there is lots of help.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He's very rude to the class, wastes time during lectures, scribbles code all over the white board, and doesn't give back quizes or tests to see how you did. You have to go to his office hours to see what you got wrong on exams and quizzes. Very hard to understand him. Don't ever take computer science with him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
When I took 422 with Dr. Qawaqneh, he brought in an outside consultant that provided database projects for us to complete as our term project. This provided us with real world experience while learning the fundamentals of designing and implementing database systems. It was a very good class experience.