Reviews of professor Paul Stotts

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very monotone professor and endless powerpoints. Hard to stay interested in the content. Assignments were difficult but doable, except for the final one which was 100x times harder for some reason. Office hours were very helpful but took hours to get in on zoom. Taking this class made me seriously reconsider my future in computer science.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I didnt like this class, the professor was monotoned. Powerpoints weren't helpful unless you rewatched the lectures. The coding hw was only conceptually related. I had no idea how to code in Java like he didnt teach java. I didn't know how to study for the exams and thats where I got screwed, just do a lot of the practice tests, like memorize them!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Super monotone and boring lectures, but content wasn't difficult at all. I didn't pay attention/attend lectures throughout the whole semester and taught myself all the material for the midterm and final in less than a week and got a pretty good grade.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
If you take the time to go through the material it is not difficult to understand. If you don't pay attention to lectures chances are you can cram a week before the midterm/final. Previous semester tests are almost identical to the ones he gives, so keep that in mind when studying. I found the assignments to be fun. They varied in challenge.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Stotts is so so so monotone making it nearly impossible for me to stay focused during class. Not to mention, the lecture material wasn't straightforward; I learned a lot more from Youtube. Office hours were super disorganized & it was nearly impossible to get help. If he didn't have a monopoly on this class I would instantly take it w someone else.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Boring and monotonous lectures but if you're able to focus, he teaches well and the exams are very fair. They follow what he lectures and he releases past exams. Exercises are useful to understanding data structures, which is very important for CS!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I took Stotts for 301 and I really liked him. His lectures were a bit boring but tests and homework weren't bad and he wasn't a bad lecturer by any means. I really liked his little tidbits of random information about the history of computing he would throw in. Recommend!

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
410 wasn't too bad, but the lectures were dry. I got more information from the coding assignments.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I think we are given the resources to succeed in this class. With the autograder & TA help, you can get a 100 on all the coding assnmts, which are worth 30%. We got practice midterms/finals to study from. Has great lecture slides, but could do a better job of connecting the coding goals to the concepts learned. Recommend overall, not too much work!