Reviews of professor Jim Beneke

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Very doable class, the professor has practice exams that are almost identical to the actual exams. A fair number of assignments, but not unreasonable. Very nice professor.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The bane of my existence. He prints out notes for the class everyday and the lecture is only him rewriting them down on the board. Only 5 kids in class who somehow manage to sit through complete nothingness. Number 1 teacher was chegg and google. Whole semester taught myself and now the final project is writing code that we never learned about.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I disagree with the last person. Although much of what Professor Beneke talked about was right from the textbook, I liked having his overview of the material before needing to work through it. And there couldn't be a nicer person, always available for help.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Ignore the class heading. I took him for CSCI 1101. His lectures are hard to pay attention to. It's not that the class is necessarily hard. It's just the way he goes over the content makes it hard for students to stay engaged. Most of your work will be through zyBooks so be prepared for a sizable amount of reading and assignments.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Probably the most boring and static lecturer I have ever seen; about 15 minutes into the first day of class I was looking at my watch. I didn't show up after that and learned everything from the online textbook. There were some weirdly irrelevant lab assignments in that textbook, but when I emailed him he made them optional.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Online class, but always gave a quick and detailed response whenever I emailed him for help. Good handouts to supplement the online textbook.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Statistics is tough, but I believe the curriculum by Mr. Beneke made the subject very understandable. The majority of the work was taking notes from lectures and presentations, along with homework that was due after every topic was covered. I would take again, but just be aware that his online classes are super independent and self paced.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The online textbook wasn't too good, but Professor Beneke provided many supplemental guides to the material that summarized how to do the problems. He also was willing to spend a lot of time with me helping me with the homework.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Good introduction to programming, I liked the professor.