Reviews of professor Troy Adair

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Purchasing the textbook written by him is mandatory, which is expensive and useless. Except during the exam, the book is not needed. He usually does not teach a lot in class and will ask you to watch plenty of video lectures, which is boring. Also, he is quite strict about deadlines.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Class was boring, useless, and not worth attending. Half the class was a no-show by the 2nd week. I was able to figure out all of the assignments and exams without going to class. I finished the course with a 92.75 and asked if I could do any extra credit to raise my grade to a 93, which would be an A, and he categorically refused to curve me.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Classes were all 10 mins for questions & he just uses a "flipped classroom" with a ton of videos to watch. If you email him, do not expect a response. At this point, the TA should be teaching the class because they do all the work. Also we had to buy HIS expensive textbook that was ended up being useless. Tests are online and pretty easy tho.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Does not teach instead uses class time for questions rather than lectures. Is super unavailable and not helpful in office hours.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Hard for 1.5 credits. No one pays attention in class. Rely heavily on TA / peer help to get HW done and to do well. Hand in HW on time it's like 50% of your grade. You have to buy his own textbook. Exams are open note but coding isn't my thing so I thought they were hard. I'm glad I'm done with this class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I didn't like him or the class, but it wasn't awful. He uses a flipped classroom, which means if you don't watch the videos, you'll probably be lost in class. Assignments every two weeks(ish), which were okay. Open note exam and he makes us get his textbook, which I have yet to use. I had a diff professor for BIS044, which made this class harder.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
If you email him DON'T expect a response. You only get to speak to him in class or office hours. TA does everything else. He doesn't teach & just posts video lectures online, tells you watch them if you don't understand something. Almost every class this semester was 10 mins long. The textbook (which he wrote) is expensive, outdated, & pointless.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
He never taught during class time and mainly used it for people to ask questions. Sent out videos for people to watch. Exams are easy, open note and internet. I found the only use for the textbook was for the exam otherwise it was of no use. TA always got overwhelmed during her office hours due to no one knowing how to do the code for the HW.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
2 exams... a mid term early into the semester and a final. Much of the class is reliant on out of class assignments that involve running assigned scripts. Sooo easy to get lost during lectures, especially if your computer experiences an error. Seems harder than It actually is. If you study for the exam's (They're Open Note) you'll be fine.