Reviews of professor Benjamin Purkis

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
If you haven't taken CS before, make sure to put aside extra time for this class. If you have, this is (barely) bearable.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Purkis is a great teacher and a great person. The class is entertaining.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Please take this guy's class before you go to Main. I have no clue what I'm doing right now, and I am only surviving because of this man. He actually knows how to teach and takes things at a nice pace.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Purkis is an amazing person, but a pretty harsh grader. He likes to give group projects, but makes himself available for office visits and consultations. If you do well on tests and pay attention in his classes, you'll do well.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Listen, kids, you'll hear it here. The math/CS dept at Oxford is harsh at grading over really trivial things, but will they change that? It's up to us. However, Purkis taught me CS better than anyone else, and TRUST ME, very few can teach CS. Nevertheless, the intro CS class is treated as a weed-out course at Ox over the way grading is structured

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I hope you're not pre-med