Reviews of professor Derek Aguiar

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lectures are useless.  Homeworks are a part time job.  He enjoys the material and could teach it well, but he does not know how to explain the material to students in a way that everyone can understand.  Good luck learning the material on your own.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Derek is the best! 3500 is just a hard class, but I have never seen a professor care so much about student's success. He really wants you to understand the content and do well. Derek grades very fairly, gives a ton of partial credit, answers emails and discord quickly (literally at like 1a.m. sometimes). One of the best professor's I've had here.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is very indirect when answering any questions. His recorded lectures aren't that helpful and your best bet is to keep up, even be ahead of the course material and make sure you know it by heart. Note: this course was recently redesigned so that the exams are much harder and CSE1010 at UConn is the hardest it's ever been.