Reviews of professor Alvaro Chavarria

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Professor Chavarria provides a bunch of demos for students to understand the difficult concepts in lecture. Often, the demo works effectively and causes some sort of laughter. The exam is easy due to how much extra work you did on your own. His lecture is easy to follow up and I can definitely understand what he is trying to teach us.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
One of the worst professors @ UW bar none. Half the time is sight reading from slides, does absolutely the bare minimum. Course material itself is highly regulated by physics department, so blame is off him for material used, but otherwise useless for teaching the course. Will tell you to "deal with it" if Pearson does not work ( happens often).

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
It's a pretty easy course overall. Not much homework, easy points come out of it. The lecture is related to all exams and makes the exams so much predictable. No presentations at all, easy 4.0 as long as you do the work by yourself. Listen to the lecture and you will be fine.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lectures were awful. He seemed to assume you came with a perfect understanding of the textbook (which was poorly written) and rushed through graded problems that didn't aid in understanding at all. Between labs, tutorials, readings, and homework assignments it was impossible to find the time to actually sit and try to understand the concepts.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Sketching on the iPad writing formulas is not teaching, unfortunately. Half of the class consists of awkward pauses. The coursework is made interesting with experiments although the constant- AND I MEAN CONSTANT- pauses mid sentences make the lecture hard to follow. Also, attendance is kind of because learningCatalytics session affects your grade.