Reviews of professor Derek Tucker

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Tucker was an alright. The exams are all open book/no proctored, he gives about 3 days to take the exam. Homeworks have NOTHING to do with overall course lol. Join the TA to learn how to do the homeworks because its confusing in beginning and youll get used to it as you go. Overall hes chill, but the exams are VERY hard avrg exam was C take it!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class was HARD. I haven't had to read like that in a long time. The information was very difficult to comprehend, but that was Cogbooks fault. Tucker does a good job of explaining the info if you ask him, but sometimes, I didn't know where to start. Also, I could've done without the "mini-course" he made with group projects.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Good professor, easy enough class. Highly recommend.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Funniest professor I've ever had. His lectures are amazing! I wish there were more of his lectures for all the concepts instead of reading the lengthy/over the top cogbooks material. Exams are open note but extremely hard, not really similar to the study guides at all. Lots of AI & ChatGPT use which is pretty irrelevant & time consuming busy work.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This course was organized with clear deadlines and assignments. However the Cogbooks textbook for this course is horrendous, and unnecessarily lengthy and wordy. Completing the weekly reading without skim reading felt nearly impossible even with good time management. The exams were also very wordy and long, with little relation to the study guide.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
was a nice guy who actually responded to emails quickly. was nice but his recitation instructions weren't the best. had assignments from 2 months ago that haven't been graded yet. he was passionate and funny so his lectures were fun to go to! dropped a lot of assignments at the end of the course