Reviews of professor David Valentine

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Valentine is an engaging lecturer with clear expectations for his class: be on time and do well. Valentine tends to get a little overexcited, which can feel intimidating to some students. His assignments are appropriately challenging for an introductory class; as someone with no programming background, I learned a great deal in his class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
To be honest, he is not a very good professor. He Thinks he is smarter and funnier than he is. He jumped up and down screaming one time just to tell us not to use floating point variables to control while loops. Nobody even had done it yet, he just wanted to make a point. He ended up shaking the entire building, I thought it was going to collapse.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
So the ratings I've seen on here show not a lack of ability or competence on Dr. V's end, but a total lack of desire or drive to actually work for anything from the reviewers. Many reviewers apparently a) expected to be able to program immediately and b) wanted A-grades to be handed to them. He's by no means perfect, but he is not at all terrible.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The class pace is very fast. This is my first time programming and he is flying through things and gets upset with me because I don't remember everything. Unless you have had 2-4 years of coding in high school, AVOID HIM LIKE THE PLAGUE! The class period is not very informational and he is not very helpful if you have a question. Do not take him!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Mr. Valentine is one of the more lackluster people I've met while at this "state" institution. While he seemed to know a lot about residential plumbing he didn't seem to care about the classes he was teaching. He would often insult both students and other professors in his characteristically unprofessional way.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Dr. Valentine was very emotional in his lectures and was not afraid to yell at or intimidate students. Felt the need to make all students feel awkward in class by interrupting individual students answers and insulting them to make the class laugh.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you still want to like programming when you're done with this class, don't take Valentine. I showed up eager to learn code every day and as the semester went on got more and more frustrated with his unclear instructions for programs. Also Exams are weighted much, much more than the programs and zybooks which take hours upon hours to complete.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class was a nightmare. Valentine is unorganized and (probably unintentionally) mean spirited and derogatory to beginning students for asking any questions he deems stupid. Project guidelines are consistently unclear and flawed. I do not recommend.