Reviews of professor Raymond Essick

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Very solid professor! His lectures were very informative (and the slides were always available), and while I wish he was more responsive to emails, he was especially insightful when spoken with after class. The best way to learn code, of course, is to actually do code, which he gave us opportunities to do.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Took Essick for Advanced Programming, and class was taught very similar to COSC 52. Accessible if you go to office hours, work is minimal just 4 coding projects that don't take too much time. Lectures are a little dry at points, but all in all a very solid professor I would reccomend.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Clear. Concise. Helpful. Knowledgeable. What more do you want.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
COSC051. Entertaining, but classes are entirely lecture-based with no coding practice until the projects. The lecture material goes in one ear and out the other because you don't have a frame of reference for how you would actually use things. I had to teach myself pretty much everything. If you need to practice to learn, don't take him.