Reviews of professor Roger Van Scoy

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Pros: Hes good at teaching the material and challenging students to utilize what he teaches. His exams are reasonable. Cons: Some of the coding assignments can be frustrating, and youre likely going to struggle in the lab because the lab supervisor sometimes gives out work on material that VS hasnt taught yet.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Van Scoy is one of the best professors I have had. He keeps class super interesting and his experience in industry is very relevant to the course. I learned a lot from this class and really enjoyed it. The layout is consistent and clear, and assignments have clear rubrics and are very manageable. I will definitely take classes with him again.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Attendance for class is mandatory about 10% of the time for small assignments. The rest of the lectures won't be tested. But attendance is mandatory for all lab periods to work on the semester-long group project (100% of final grade). The project is low-stress. Even if you don't finish the whole project, you'll still easily pass. Would recommend

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Van Scoy is pretty solid. Really good in class assignments for most units help a lot with learning the material. Tests are very hard though, and a major time crunch. Some out of class assignments are much more difficult than necessary, but so is all of computer science so thats not on him. As long as you put in the work youll be fine

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I liked having Van Scoy as a professor. Really laid back, tests are very easy if you know java. The Tic-Tac-Toe project is worth like 50% of your grade, stay on top of it and you should easily pass the class. Do not, I repeat - Do not wait until the last day a project part is due, they take more time than you expect.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Honestly he's kind of the worst. There is an insane amount of projects and homework required each week for this class so if you don't understand it the moment you've been "taught" you're already behind. Not that he does much teaching- he projects the book on the wall and reads straight from it while the entire class does other homework.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Van Scoy is a good teacher but he makes the class very hard. Lots of homework on top of your weekly labs.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Van Scoy is okay at teaching. Most of the lecture is reviewing random code he has. The class has homework almost everyday and if you don't understand a certain topic you get left behind. The tests are the worst, they are online code corrections and multiple choice. The tests are hard and he does not give enough time to finish it.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Insane amount of homework per week and the lecture is just a review of the homework. My biggest problem was with the exams, which were all online and would require you to do multiple choice, code corrections, and full codes without enough time to complete it. The prof knows what he's doing, but the class itself could have been WAY better.