Reviews of professor Steve Cruz

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Absolutely no grading criteria for given assignments. Review sheets for tests did not fall in line with the material presented on test days. Labs were trivially easy. Homework was trivially easy as well, however graded with what seemed like malevolence. Review for final seemed like unintentional misdirection afterwards. Bad prof, not ready to teach

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Steve was passionate about Linux. We got a lot of hands on. Class was taught as a beginner level class. I had an emergency come up and he totally worked with me. He's approachable. I didn't care much for his final but the quizzes, homework and labs were ok.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
This class was a tough one but very manageable if you attend the lectures and take good notes. The teacher always had very expensive shoes (v classy) and the grader was very fair and always left very nice feedback in the form of emojis.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
From mechanical and still felt comfortable in the course. One of my favorites. Went to lectures (powerpoints) and did the reading. Homework was in line with what was presented. Two quizzes all semester. Allowed 2 sheets of notes for the final - questions came from hw, labs, quizzes, slides/book. Always made announcements and responded to emails.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lectures were worthless. Homework online turn-in ON LABOR DAY. Mandatory in class Labs or Quiz every week. Labs & Homework took HOURS. Average quiz grades were mid 70%. Final review was a complete misdirection. Final average low 70% for 30% of final grade... it took a letter grade from most everyone. Purposefully tricky final. Horrible professor

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
PhD student teaching. Frequent updates on deadlines and class. 6 hw, 5 labs, and 2 quizzes. Slides a bit boring, but ok (contained tables of coding options and told to put on quiz & final sheet). Assignments were worth while and received help during labs. You actually got to code. Would recommend and reading helps . Had final review.