Reviews of professor Ebrahim Kazemzadeh

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I had Abe a year ago for a different class and thought his teaching style had improved quite a bit since then.  One forever annoyance though is him spending class time to help individuals troubleshoot their database/program/etc.  Sometimes he'll spend over an hour doing this!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If u ask him about video editing or boat sailing, he will passionately chat with u. U ask him anything from the course and he has no answer. So I asked this guy difference between transactions in RDBMS and NoSQL systems. His reply was "every database company is different and you should call their customer support to know the differences". LOL :)

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He is fine for chit chatting after class. Really awful as far as teaching is concerned. Dont even ask him questions. He makes up some random answers that are completely wrong.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
After reading all of the other reviews on here, I was really worried about this professor before taking his course, but trust me you have nothing to worry about. His lectures are a little dry, and he sometimes gets confused, but he is a great guy and the class isn't too hard. He is very receptive to feedback as well.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He uses his slides of other professors and reads through. If you ask a question he almost never knows the answers and gives a very vague tangential rant. Boring as hell. I am not learning anything from Abe. He tries to act nice and he might be nice but that doesnt help. Waste.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great class with a solid mixture of foundational database subjects from design to coding in SQL. Exercises from readings are done in Oracle. Reading is critical to this course. Professor mixes in relevant database happenings throughout lectures as well as created a steady build up to final project on database related subject student chooses.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Avoid at all costs. Abe seems like a nice guy, but you will teach yourself everything in this course, he confuses himself. He stumbles and stutters through topics. You can do the reading, read through the slides, and then get to class and he will take everything you learned and throw it out the window. Worthless.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
first time teaching this course and it showed. class had a wide range of knowledge which may have created the environment i was in but man was it a slog to get through. quizzes were based off the book. focusing on reading a book and not require any hands on work for the most part is not what a database class should be. i didn't learn much.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Abe is a great Professor. He is very helpful. It was my first database class and I did learn a lot of things from this class. We saw also some NoSql databases languages in the Class. Now, I am really good at the Oracle SQL. I also took from Java Foundation first from him. It was also great.