Reviews of professor Sidharth Kumar

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Syllabus was pure guess work. Homework was graded after exams, no feedback in between. Response time to emails can be measured in weeks. Elicits verbal feedback from a class with 80+ people in it. Allots 2 hours per exam and most don't finish in that time. Takes weeks for exam grades. Made one reference to textbook in homework, $80 for 3 pages.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Best professor at UAB, hands down. His lectures are fun and inspiring. The material is not easy, but Professor Kumar conveys it so well. He's also very helpful in office hours and his exams are reasonable. I am not sure why the harsh reviews, but probably some students want to coast for an easy A? That's silly; just learn and you'll do well!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is the best example that a knowledgeable person cannot be a teacher. He is too fast, skips topics. Assignments are really bad. Won't learn anything. Expectations he provides during the trial class is totally different to what he teaches. Would not recommend!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
He was pretty good, I personally thought the material was easy because of how he taught it. Homeworks were very easy but useful. Test were a bit harder but not too bad. Did some occasional pop-quizzes, though they were attendance based. The one major complaint I do have is the lack of communication. I sent him an email and never got a response.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is a good professor no doubt but he teaches something else and gives something else in the papers.
Just taking his lecture wont be enough to pass and that's why i failed.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Kumar is a good professor here and I learned a lot from his algorithms class this year. He was very hand-on and showed us each idea visually and sometimes several ways. I'd recommend him if you want to understand core algorithms in CS better!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Kumar is a top instructor. Not too hard and he gives out a lot of bonus points. His tests measure understanding and his lectures are usually helpful.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
too much homework but at the end it was given less percentage in final grade , test heavy  if you don't read you are not getting marks and also the questions wont be application based . lecturer is not responsive , the classes are little confusing , explains the easy topics too much but skips the difficult topics . classes don't feel fun .