Reviews of professor Benjamin Reed

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Difficult content, and the expectations for this class are very high. To succeed, you'll need to read the textbook , spend a lot of time on homework assignments (that are mini projects by themselves), and ask a lot of questions. Falling behind results in snowballing. If you're willing to put in the effort, you'll learn a ton in this class.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Dr. Reed makes it so incredibly easy to study for his tests (all of the important information is highlighted for you so you know what to put in your notes). I have since gone on to take other classes in the bio department and I miss how well organized the content of his classes were and how good at explaining things he was. Highly recommend.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The class teaches you to drive remote-controlled cars, and homework asked you to drive Transformers. He just only read textbooks and just only used #C. every assignment is not he did grade.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I find Ben very inspiring and easy to understand. He starts his class with questions and uses iClicker to practice. He's available outside class, and his office hours are easy to attend.
This platform is for rating my professor, so my review is solely for the professor, not OS as a course. The OS class itself is a headache.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He's a caring professor and a nice person overall, however the class is is incredibly difficult and time consuming. Although he says, knowing C is not required, you will have to be extremely comfortable with C to do well on his homework assignments. Just going to lecture won't help; read all the txtbook chapters he assigns and self learn.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This is the first time that Prof. Reed has taught this class, and so far he has done a poor job. He gives out assembly language coding assignments while barely teaching us assembly language in the lectures; instead, he mostly focuses on concepts being covered in the textbook. I wish that he would cover the specific content of the assignments more.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
OS is one of the hardest and a core class in the CS major, although I dropped the class due to my own problems. Ben is one of the great professors I ever had at SJSU. His lectures are amazing and he is passionate to teach his students. The difficulty of the subject is the reality of the CS Major that you have to learn it and go through it.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Best cs professor at sjsu! you will use what you learn from him in industry. Ben is very informational and will help you understand everything, he really goes above and beyond for students. Assignments can be hard but if you want to learn they are fun