Reviews of professor Benjamin Reed

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is great in a lab setting. He keeps it interesting. He lectures but also is very hands on and available for further explanation if you need. He loves turtles, and ties a lot of things to them, but it helps you understand better when the professor is just as excited as you. He grades pretty tough on tests, but if you study you will be fine.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He is an amazing professor! He is very passionate and really wants you to succeed. He goes at a good pace all throughout the semester. He is big on making sure you understand the material versus just getting as many modules done as he can. The class is a lecture class but you do some activities in class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Reed is a phenomenal professor. The class is tough, but he is extremely accessible outside of the classroom and will try to help students succeed. He hosts review nights prior to exams, and gives extra credit. He's also really passionate about what he teaches. (Buy the access code for this class... Skip the textbook, you'll never use it.)

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is always eager to teach, but because this course is really dense, it is hard to cover everything. If you have trouble understanding something, ask and he will explain in more detail. The coding assignments are heavy projects and require a lot of time. Tests are based off ungraded homework questions, so try to pay attention to those. Nice guy.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Make sure to treat the assignments like projects because they basically are! Great guy: knowledgable, accessible, and helpful.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Nice guy but he deos not care about students who genuinely bring up issues to him for consideration.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I enjoyed his class - I was sick so missed a couple classes which is why I had a C - I recommend taking his class if you can

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Ben is a great prof and you can feel his enthusiasm during lectures. Homework isn't bad but is graded on accuracy and not completion so you definitely can't afford to procrastinate (I did and my grade suffered lol). Exams were straightforward and a lot easier than the homework and will easily carry your grade. Overall the class was very rewarding.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Ben is one of the best professors I've had at SJSU. Very knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the subjects, and he shows through his actions that he cares about his students and likes his job.

Tests are very straightforward and fair. Homework assignments are difficult, but that is due to the content of the class being difficult.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Professor Reed isn't a bad professor, but the way the operating systems course was taught for CMPE felt overwhelming. The assignments felt like they were unbelievably hard, and at times would feel like it was impossible to complete them at the pace that they were given, which felt like there was no breathing room. The autograder wrecked the grades.