Reviews of professor Scott Reckinger

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Can't believe I'm struggling in a class which is supposed to be very easy. The amount of work he assign is ridiculous. IDK what's going through his mind.  Like, this is the only class we are taking and we should care of?

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If you gonna be a lab rat  of the new cs 211 + scott go ahead but don't cry later.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Iv never seen a more inconsiderate professor in my life, he wasn't a good professor at all. Tough projects, lectures,labs, homework he made it seem like it was the only class we were taking at UIC. Scott was terrible and should never teach again.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Why was he even added to the cs department?

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This was CS 251 but RMP doesn't have that option, his lectures occasionally he would struggle on topics and couldn't explain it but he made 2.5 hour lectures go by fast and made accessing the materials really easy, the tests are the best example of learning from a study guide and projects are planned out and give time to complete.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Extremely rude and aggressive whenever dealing with students. Always ready to rudely answer your questions or answer in a way to make you feel inferior or less intelligent. He just reads off the slides and doesn't do any examples or walk you though stuff. Again, he's very rude and inconsiderate and like most UIC profs just care about $ and research

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This was CS 251 in summer 2023. Dr.Reckinger made the class as easy as possible given the short 8 weeks of instruction. The exams were exactly on what we learned and were similar to the practice exams. We are given everything we need to know for the 5 projects.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He was not sympathetic to the students' struggles/concerns until pretty much the entirety of the 211 class complained. Does give a lot of extra credit opportunities during labs, projects, etc. Overall, learned a lot of beneficial things in the class but the professor did come off pretty inconsiderate and borderline rude at times.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
trenches.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Be prepared to spend your entire weekend for working on his homeworks  and quizzes. The class is heavily dependent on lectures, but all he does is read the slides. He doesn't care about feedback from students and laughs it off. Never replies to emails.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very hard class, and the professor did not make it any easier. Have fun reading and googling everything question you have.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Do not take this man. In just the last week, a hard homework assignment due Tuesday, we have the 3rd assessment on Wednesday, a take home exam that is coding heavy due Sunday, and then the Final exam that is due the next morning. He reads off the slides and is extremely unaccommodating and unhelpful. Exams are difficult. Worst professor at UIC.