Reviews of professor Rick Bird

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
The only legitimately bad instructor I've had. Mr. Bird uses lectures from an entirely different instructor & barely teaches anything himself. On "harder" portions of labs or homework, he has videos that just tell you how to do it instead of properly teaching those concepts. You have to teach yourself and do lots of reading outside of the textbook.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Wonderful professor! Take him!! He will spend time with you and send you personal videos working with you on your class work or project. ALWAYS available to help. Provides so much info to help along the way. Highly recommend. Wish I can take him on every class I need. Hard work tho, so pay attention!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Uses lectures that don't belong to him and they are hard to understand. The text book for the class is not the best and the assignments come from the book. He may have been a great instructor in the past, but I believe that this is not the case anymore. If he would record his own lectures I think that this class would have been a lot better.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
A wonderful professor and so much fun to work with. He lives in reality and understands that things come up. Has super awesome office hours and genuinely cares for each students success. He goes above and beyond to help his students.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If you need to take this class for your degree, then I'd recommend learning Java from a third party source, such as YouTube or Udemy before taking this class because you won't learn it here. The questions on the homework did not reinforce any of the content we were learning and frankly just seemed like busywork for the sake of busywork.