Reviews of professor Douglas McKinley

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is a very good instructor. I highly recommend taking his class if offered with him. He makes sure you understand the material. The homework was challenging but just go and talk to him and he'll work with you. This sounds very generic but I do recommend taking the class with him

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great teacher! He did a good job of communicating with his students. Despite being placed in a difficult situation he was able to adapt and help his students through it. He was also easy to access outside of class and was generally very helpful.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Fairly decent teacher, quality of teaching went up 100x when he started writing his own lectures. Lectures are fairly important, lots of good content covered. Attendance mandatory unless you can quickly covered lost ground on your own. The assignments are incredibly long (20+ hours), start asap.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Douglas has been extremely helpful and transparent with his students, offering them resources and tips on how to approach a problem. Easy to reach via email. Lecture slides and other resources are offered on class website, along with several wiki-pages for coding resources. Very personable with students in lecture and office hours.