Reviews of professor Valmor de Almeida

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Listen here: DO NOT take CHEN.3170 with this guy. You will NOT pass. Class is curved all the way to a C- is a 58, and still half the class failed, no exaggeration. Expects you to already know Python before the class starts, and introduces high level Python coding in the first few weeks. He is out of touch just because he worked at a national lab.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This was my least favorite class I have taken in my 3 years at UML. The first 3 lab works are easy. After that good luck. He gives you horrible feedback and does not prepare you well for any assignments. The class average right before finals was failing if that tells you anything. If you can, take it over the summer with a different professor.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Do not take his classes he does a terrible job explaining the material he is teaching and every what seems like 10 minutes would say that we would be working for Facebook, Google, and Amazon. The workload that is given is next to impossible to do in a timely manner unless you are already familiar with python he also changed the due date to earlier.