Reviews of professor Steven Tranotti

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
He allows you to take practice quizzes, which is reused for his graded quizzes, chapter exam, and mid-term. Practice those on time and you get an easy B. Your final is a group project. Teammates are selected randomly, so you might be lucky or not to get a competent team. I enjoyed his lecture, he explains concepts in depth and is very respectful.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
You will not learn from him. You will dread even asking questions because he talks down to you. You will go over a brand new concept once, then move on to a new one, again and again, and he will expect it to all perfect on the upcoming assignment. He just can't teach art students. the book uses heavy math, while he makes us guess #s. Never again.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Honestly he spent the whole course lecturing and not actually teaching. He ended up giving a group project at the end. Worst part he wants you to do work that he doesn't teach. Any professor can make a PowerPoint. I would avoid this professor at all cost. Find a professor who actually teaches instead of reading PowerPoints.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
In my whole life, I've never had a worse professor. If you don't already know how to code, you won't be able to learn from him. He assigns tasks without notice since he is quite accelerated. To stay up, you will need to teach yourself. Also, don't try to communicate with him; he may respond to emails, but there are no guarantees.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dont take this class if you want it as a gen ed. I can say much for people that want to be a computer science major but as a Media major, this class was hard. He is lecture heavy and is vague with his wording. This class should be more hands on and not so lecture heavy. He seems to expect ALL of us to be good coders even if its not our major.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Me. Tranotti is a good teacher and is very informative. Unfortunately he has a habit of inserting his political opinions into a computer science class. Im not sure how it got there.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He was my temporary professor for 135 but for the short time he was there he did an amazing job. He will make you so professional when it comes to coding in C++ which my actual professor didn't teach me. He makes more sense than the book when he lectures and during office hours and I always walk away understanding the material.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Never in my life have I had a professor that speaks to his students SO condescendingly that whenever he says "any questions?" it's either silent or he talks down on a student for needing a refresher. I am an art major and so are most of my classmates. A lot of us have ADHD and other learning disabilities. He does not and will slow down lessons.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I do not know how a person with zero knowledge of programming is allowed to teach at a university level course. He does not know how to fix your code. I thought university professors must have a Ph.D. degree to be eligible to teach. You will get an easy grade without knowing anything.