Reviews of professor Doug Degroot

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor DeGroot is very nice and cares about his students. His lectures are ok and the workload is pretty light. There were 3 exams that were not too bad. Although there is no curve, the hw is graded pretty leniently and the course is not too bad. Overall, great professor!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Degroot was not very organized, however I enjoyed that the class did not have a rigid structure, especially for CS 3162. He's funny and introduced interesting discussion topics. He assigned weekly assignments where you write 1-2 pages about a particular article or topic. However, the assignments took more time than they should for a 1 SCH class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Pretty easy class. Didn't attend many lectures, the ones I did he mostly yapped about writing good code. Self-studied the bits I didn't know from the slides, cooked his easy tests, assignments were easy as well if you know what you're doing. If you have questions he seems helpful to students, take if you can self-study or don't want to go to class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
What's good with DeGroot: well prepared man, hw is challenging but good, useful feedback, accessible outside of class, lots of extra credit and rewards good hw assignments with more extra credit.
What's not so good with DeGroot: tough grader, tests are hard, has really bad temper, class structure is a mess, did I mention he has REALLY bad temper?

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Degroot's lectures are very clear and understandable. There are 3 exams and manageable hw. Great professor and course!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
oh boy... DEGOAT is at it again! anyway uhh first 2-3 hws really didnt make sense with what he taught. HOWEVER everything beyond that, was all self-study material that can get the hw's done. for reference, the 2 exams (cheatsheatable)are literally whatever he yapps about the most in class. so just fill your cheatsheet with slide content.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He isn't a good teacher, his lectures are useless most of the time, and give 6 HWs and 2 tests. The tests are fairly simple, although some questions can be sneaky make sure to read carefully. His homework's aren't too hard but because he barely  covers anything he assigns you'd have to learn on your own.
Worst part about his class are his graders.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Let me start off by saying he really cares about his students. The lectures are really easy to understand and follow. The homework follows along with what he teaches and are fairly simple. The only gripe is his exams. He contradicts himself on what will be on the exam and throws in stuff that he barely went over in class. :/

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I like how this class grade is not heavily dependent on tests instead it's more toward homework. And he seems like a nice professor who tries to engage with the student.