Reviews of professor Stephen Westin

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If you think that you've had some bad professors in your educational career, think again. Professor Westin sets a new low, being possibly the worst professor at SCAD. All the other reviews are true. Fails to communicate and follow his rubrics to where its disrespectful and unfair. He has been targeted by Title IX on many behaviors and it shows.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This is my 2nd year at SCAD, & this is the lowest grade I have received. He's not a professor, he doesn't know how to teach, nor communicate. Most of the times he was behind his desk mumbling and messing with his codes. I felt slightly robbed from learning the fundamentals of programming. I am glad we have things such as YouTube and Google.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Oh no! This professor is so unclear!! :(

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Please don't take his class unless you'd like to invest several hours reading and watching videos on lectures he could and should have effectively taught in class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Stephen Westin is not a professor, he is a programmer. His lectures are barely informational. Any examples he does consists of him coding for 30 mins without pausing or explaining what he's doing. Projects are graded hard and following the rubric won't even guarantee a good grade. If you don't know someone who can code and help you, you're screwed.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
final grade - 79.85%. So close to the 3.0 :( Just to give you a glimpse of what Westin is like; he docked me 10% on the first project for having some of my comments in Spanish. this was ridiculous because nowhere on the rubric did it say anything about comments being in a certain language. His grading rhetoric is heavily biased.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Prof. Westin loved helping us with our projects and I liked his personality. But class sessions were long and boring as he didn't narrate what he was doing when editing code and made a lot of mistakes. He complimented us on our projects and was chill when it came to critiquing. I learned the basics of programming which was my goal.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
First class that genuinely felt unfair at SCAD. Everything I learned was taught to me by my classmates. Basically no instruction was given. Me and most of my friends failed because of the brutal way he grades even though we tried our best to learn the material on our own. Im sad and not excited to retake.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Please, do yourself a favor and steer clear of this class. The professor doesn't teach anything you need to do the projects. You'll need to teach yourself everything because you won't learn it from him. Without any prior coding knowledge, this class is difficult. It's an intro to coding class, yet you're expected to just pick it up instantly.