Reviews of professor Dong Chen

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Hws, and midterm/final. First 2 hws aren't too bad, 3rd one you will learn more from your peers than what his TA teach for it. Midterm/Final are hard. My issue with him is he make his TA's grade everything, so you lose that opportunity to show the prof what you know and what you needed help with. Reminds you how school is a buisness...

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I got A-, Lecture heavy course. He has an accent but is still much better than other OS professors. He is tough. I would not give him 5 but would definitely give 4 out of 5, comparing with my other courses.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr. Chen goes relatively fast in lectures so you have to keep up in order to understand the content. HW's are lengthy but a good chance to earn points as it is the only other thing in the grade book besides exams, and also are great review. He's very easy to reach outside of class, and is a kind and funny teacher.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Chen is a genuinely caring professor. Linear Algebra/ Differential Equations is a difficult class, but he did his best to make it accessible. Besides presenting the material in a clear way, in lectures he'd often allow 5-15 minutes for students to attempt problems. During which he'd walk around and answer questions. This practice was so helpful

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He can explain things clearly step by step so if you can really go to every class and listen carefully, you can get an easy A, but if you want to skip one class (though you can), you can understand nothing after that.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Quizzes and exams were cake. Lectures are boring and hard to understand. The assignments are the worst part of this class. First they are not related at all to what he is teaching. You are expected to be a C++ wizard. Assignments themselves were taken from another school so when you email him or the TAs they do not help and cannot help!

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Took COP 5614 and this class was a nightmare. The class had 2 portions; in-class lectures and assignments and were not relative to each other at all! Plus it came with no guidance and the TA's were in charge of helping us with the assignments and they were very unhelpful and hard to reach. It seemed like nor the Professor or the TA's cared at all.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I got A. He gave 1 optional assignment to boost your grade. Students are allowed to work in a group of 2 for all the assignments. Lectures are very information-intensive and heavy. Do not take it unless you are ready. It does have a prerequisite of two courses to enrol in this course. I guess he is tough if you compare with other instructors.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Very lucky to have him for MATH2174. By far my favorite professor, even if the content is hard.