Reviews of professor Jacob Doiron

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The midterm is extremely difficult and the final project is difficult if you don't know what you are doing and his instructions for it are very vague. He's a nice guy but he can yap for days to where it gets a little annoying. Only take his class if you are interested in working in cyber security. Also has pop quizzes after every chapter.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
There's nothing to learn in MIS 429 all he does is talk about his job and other topics relating to cybersecurity, networking, and how technology is affecting the world. He often time brings in special guest from certain companies to talk about those topics and thats about it. His HW are easy, the midterm is hard, and theres a project near the end.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He will make it easy for you in the beginning and he talks about carving in the end, there is no curve no clear grading , you might do everything well but he required to follow department rule for grading , he must leave teaching and keep working at the office

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Extracts boring material and lots of book content to make lectures animated and interesting. His experience as an analyst and computer farmer provide down-to-earth narratives to complement the seemingly scary information discussed. Grades only a few assignments; thus proactiveness and beginning the long policy paper is necessary. Cool. Hip. Real.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This professor never once taught any material that was actually on the online tests which require coding. These are hard topics. All the homework was optional, but needed it to learn the topics for the online tests, not graded. All the dates were wrong. On his slides and on his exam instructions. Never once did I see the correct date written. DON'T

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
AMAZING! Professor Doiron makes his grading criteria very straight forward, and tells you exactly what he expects from the homework and tests. He really wants to make sure his students are understanding the material as he teaches and has lots of real world examples to prove that what you are learning is important. Take his class!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Doiron is a kind, understanding guy; however, if you're a complete novice to anything computer related, choose a diff prof. He never explains anything in Excel or coding for SQL, so your OYO. He also gives extremely unreasonable time limits for exams and expects you to know TOO much material.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Mr. Doiron is the nicest. The class meets once a week so it gets a bit long but he keeps it interesting by using examples from current events. He is really helpful with any questions (class material or not). There is also a group project so take it with some friends.