Reviews of professor Ryan Sides

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Sides was not an effective instructor, at all. He posted a PDF of each topic which sometimes contained a definition of key terms, and multiple lines of code. There was no lecturing done, no video links, no youtube videos, NOTHING. Just a "here is what I want to see" and basically a figure it out on your own style class. This was a horrible class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Beware. This professor does not give you anything to be able to learn. I had to receive a lot of tutoring to make it through. Once the tutor explained I could actually understand. Professor makes it way more difficult than it should be.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He's a very tough grader and makes the class even harder than it is.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Extra credit is given in the form of attendance, participation and notes. Use all the help you can get. Flashcards, flashcards, flashcards. Cheat sheets are your friend. He's not example heavy, if you need examples and practice, utilize supplemental notes and TAs. Good luck.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I did have to drop this class because of the lack of instruction. There were no meetings, recorded lectures, anything explaining the lessons. It was more of a, "here ya go, figure it out". For me, I cant learn that way and the material went right over my head so I dropped before becoming too invested.