Reviews of professor James Murphy

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I had to google on how to understand the ideas for calculus and examples. His lectures are soo broad, need more examples to understand calculus, because calculus is a big subject. Focus way too much on definitions and other unnecessaries information's. More problems, less info

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
James is an amazing professor in statistics and probability; his lectures are very inspiring and he cares about his student much. I definitely recommend taking Math 165 and 166 with Professor Murphy

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Super nice guy. Completely lacks the condescending demeanor that plagues a lot of STEM professors at Tufts. The material was pretty interesting. It's worth noting that the homeworks are about 50% 50% split between coding and math but the tests are basically straight math

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Murphy is an engaging lecturer often sneaks tidbits of history into his lectures. He is heavy on the proofs and underlying math theory with a little less focus on applications. Weekly homework is reasonable. Tests are short and not very difficult. Downside is the lack of understanding of applications of the concepts because of the amount of proofs.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Knows a lot, but not a good teacher. Not great at explaining things. His tests come out of nowhere.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Fantastic!