Reviews of professor Douglas Selent

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
After the first half of this class was awful, Doug took over the class and it improved VASTLY. He made the content actually understandable and was around to help with programming problems. He's a very approachable guy and helps as much as he can for students to succeed. Would definitely recommend him.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Great Professor. Genuinely cares about his students. Recommend fully.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Selent is the best professor the CS dept. has to offer. He was not expected to teach this course this semester, he was able to teach the material due to his experience in the field. The transition to online due to COVID was near flawless in its execution. Even though I am a BSAD major, Doug made things easy to understand in this course.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Take again? For sure. But his rating on this site is probably a bit inflated compared to the average student experience because of a fun personality. He knows stuff and isn't a bad lecturer but being quirky just isn't an excuse for the way he runs homework. Having graders take off 2.5% for basically each typo does not teach us how to code better.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Selent has a passion for databases and it shows in his lectures. Sometimes we would get off-topic due to his curiosity with random SQL or Postgres conundrums. You will have to put in work to get a good grade as with all of Dr. Selents courses.