Reviews of professor Matt Burton

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Big Ideas is kind of a boring, basic course since you don't go into much depth on anything, but Dr. Burton is great. The workload is light, and the python lab with the course was actually pretty useful because I had no prior python knowledge. As long as you show up and put a couple hours into the projects, you'll be good!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Burton is a great guy, super chill but he knows his stuff. The class was small so he got to know all of us. Lots of dad jokes but he's funny if you like that kind of stuff. Great lectures, the material was really interesting and he got into a lot of cool stuff despite some broad topics. Projects were fun.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Some people loved his lectures, but I found them very boring. He does a lot of engaging in class activities but sometimes the connection to material was barely there. We received no feedback on projects or labs or anything, and therefore had no idea what our final grade was based on or what it would even be until the end. Almost no homework.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This class was by far the best Ive taken. It was structured well, organized and the material was engaging. This professor should teach a class on how to teach online classes because he set my standards very high. There were simple labs to complete every week, DB posts and some group projects. I would love to take another one of his classes.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Burton was a great professor. The lectures were sometimes boring and the lab section of the course was just an intro to Python. The whole semester I had no clue what my grade was but ended up with an A. Burton himself is a great guy and very engaging and witty. The intro class is new, so i'm sure the course will only get better.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Burton is a good lecturer and it makes the annoyance of a mandatory course a little better but the class itself was a bit unorganized. The grading of the projects seemed unclear for every single one and the lab portion of the class might as well be an entirely different class. Despite this, Burton makes the class more bearable and hes funny

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dealing with him is inevitable as the class is required for LIS students, but he seems entirely disinterested in it. He's rude and makes his TA do everything. His written assignments are redundant wastes of time, and it took him half of the semester to release "explainers" he promised for prior exercises. Lectures are typo-laden and hard to follow.