Reviews of professor Maxim Safioulline

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is a narcissist, he loves to hear himself a lot. It is really hard to participate. He is constantly criticizing even the way we ask the questions. He has knowledge about the subject but lacks teaching skills. Never grades on time and his feedback is always confusing like his homework "briefs."

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
in terms of teaching, he is a good teacher, but to get credit you just have midterm and final plus he is a really hard grader and his criteria is very confusing. He wont teach you anything about designing, but he expect you to know what will be a good design for him!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Just do yourself a favor and don't take him. He teaches coding like its a very simple thing to do, newsflash!! its not. Many things contribute to coding that can very easily break your code and knowing how to fix it comes with knowledge and experience, Some of which we have only had with one web design course. It felt more like a web3 class then 2.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He's okay. A bit intimidating but quite forgiving with the grade book. He teaches at Art Center in the Master program so it's a good opportunity to get REAL feedback on your work BUT he can come off as harsh. Overall it's a workable situation; he seemed very willing to reiterate/explain assignment requirements. Ravenclaw-Slytherin spectrum.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Its a difficult class to take. I learned more from reading the book and browsing the web than in class. He rates students work on whats wrong and isnt great at saying what you need to change. This is actually my least favorite professor Ive had at SMC. Dont recommend.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Awful. He doesn't give good feedback on homework. Poorly wording the quizzes as well as his instructions for the assignments. Not responding to questions via email (all answers are like: we will look at this at the class). Worst prof I've ever had on web design classes. Learned more from google than from this class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Took Web1 during the summer. Class was well paced and assignments weren't frivolous. It's not an easy A but he's set up the points system so it's hard to fail. Even so, I struggled to keep up. He made an effort to meet me where I was and didn't shame me. Took our work seriously. Gave good crits. He's up there with Luke and Nicola in my book.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I had a web design class with him but I did not learn anything about designing a web! the class was just like a computer science class. He won't ask you for mockup, wireframes or color pallet, but when he is going to grade your work, he will criticize your design!! we did a lot of assignments, but we didn't get credit or feedback for any of them.