Reviews of professor Michael Nixon

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Take this with a grain of salt: he claims the course is beginner-friendly, personally? It's not. As a non-STEM person with 0 experience, the material he left us to learn alone was not helpful for labs/quizzes. Students who have experience took up most of his time during questions. The course needs a lot of time if you're a beginner. Dropped this.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Not a person you are willing to see every week. Rude when replying to emails. Class content and format were just bad. Makes you learn useless programming tools (Grav, and another I forgot the name) that have no application in the real world. It is insulting to students. Records lectures and makes you attend Zoom. Also, makes you pay for Tophat.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The course is just badly structured. The quizzes are ridiculous, the reading comes after the homework, and the lectures are boring. Feels like he just don't care.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Avoid at all costs! Boring lectures and doesn't explain anything. If you have no experience with coding, you have to learn everything yourself. Beware that the TA's grade everything only by the end of the semester, and you don't even know how well you are doing in the course.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Final exam so hard

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
His exams was so difficult. Instead of the usual lab format of writing the entire whole code ourselves to answer the exercise, we had to complete  his long prewritten code with so many sentences everywhere making it  hard to think. I felt overwhelmed. This type of format made the labs much easier. I heard a lot of students complain about this exam.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
cct461 is the most difficult and baffling course I've ever learned, so consider carefully if you haven't learned any coding lessons! I don't understand what is being said at all!!! Very much homework that requires self-study! Otherwise, I don't understand it at all! 25% of the exams! Nothing!!!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lecture and content-heavy course, the labs are okay as if even I made errors and did not decide to correct them I would get the marks for participation, the reading quizzes are the worst, and the project + test reviews will come after the course concludes. [Wish for another professor for CCT211 if I don't get good grades.]

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
final exam was really hard. Should be more considerate towards his students

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
the absolute worst thing that ever happened to UTM. This guy's incompetence reaches new levels when it comes to providing his students with a proper learning experience. He assigns weekly labs that cannot be completed without using external resources (such as youtube etc.). Keeps the same boring/annoying tone while speaking for 2 hours straight.