Reviews of professor Frank Wood

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class is *a lot* of work, but is very much worth it if you're interested in the material. Even though prob prog is the focus, a lot of the material will be useful more generally. Very interactive and inspiring lectures. Highly recommended if you don't have much else going on in your life.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I found it very hard to follow his line of reasoning sometimes. Not only does he go over the material very fast, but VERY FREQUENTLY he losses his train of thought and starts blanking out or mumbling. I am not sure if it is because he did not use his own slides to he did not know by heart every sentence that was written on the slides.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He seems to be a really cool guy with great knowledge, but he teaches way too fast. CPSC 340 has a lot of materials and he assumes 90% of the class knows the materials beforehand and are Masters or PhD students. The course itself isn't easy and students with no experience on ML need to be taught on the fundamentals with more clarity.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Took CPSC 340 with him, and I have to say overall amazing prof. I highly enjoyed the class, and although there's a lot of material to cover he does it great. Very witty guy as well, and would highly recommend.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
His research is cool and amazing, but I do have to say, he's teaching wayyyyy too fast. He makes long and difficult online exams and assignments, where majority of the questions are based on coding. In class, we only went through concepts and math part of the course, so be prepared to self-study Python and a little ML before taking this class.