Reviews of professor Venkata Nadendla

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The most minor of mistakes on a question will cost at least 5% of your test grade. The average grade for the first test was a 64.3%. Dr. Sid approached this class from a strong mathematical perspective, and it showed by how difficult it was to follow his lectures. He expects formal proofs but never went over how to construct one to his standard.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He seems really passionate about algorithms and making sure the students actually learn the subject. His teaching style seems to have changed this year, as his grading has become more lenient and this course was not at all bad like students from past years have made it out to be. Super happy to help during office hours, and receptive to feedback.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very knowledgeable in his field, you can tell he is very intelligent and passionate about his work. However, he has no business teaching this class. Very high expectations of students, brutal assignments with strict grading, teaches a 2000 level course like a 5000 level course. If I were taking a grad level course, I would want to take it with him.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
His lectures can sometimes be tedious, but he is really knowledgeable about the subject matter. While the class started very difficult, he ended up writing very fair exams and offering bonus points on homework, so it was really up to you to study hard.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Forgot to post the homework for almost a week, and I was "lucky" he gave me a two-day extension for it.
Overall, poorly written course materials; didn't explain material, just read from his slides.
I asked him a homework question, and he didn't respond until I asked him again, and his response was "go ask the TA."

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
After reading some of the other reviews on Dr. Sid I was very skeptical going into this semester. After taking this class with him I can say he might be the most over hated professor at S&T. I've never had a professor that has cared more about his. students. His homework took some time but none of them were too extreme.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very tough grader on tests. Even if the answer is correct he won't like it if its not the same as his answer. He offered bonus points twice in the semester but ended up taking all of it away 12 hours before the final.