Reviews of professor Benjamin Say

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Class was tolerable until about halfway through the semester, when the pacing skyrocketed out of nowhere and all students were left scrambling for help. Particularly, the unit on the Fuel framework left everyone completely lost, and the bulk of work (term paper draft + web project milestone) forced work for other classes to go ignored. Avoid.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Took him during COVID. Constantly changed the due dates on his assignments without notifying students. Exams had no correlation with the homework, usually meaning if you wanted to do well you had to study a week or two ahead to catch up with what was actually being tested. Senior taking my capstone course, and this was somehow my hardest class :/

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
He was one of three professors I had for this class and he was one of the better ones. He was really genuine and nice, and he cared about all of us. Really this is a pretty easy straightforward class. We had one quiz, one paper and a final. We had in-person class once a week where we did an activity, so go to class (your grade depends on it).

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Ben does good lectures, but they were unnecessary for a B. Zybooks(the hw website) teaches you everything you need to know. Between the lab projects and Zybooks, you learn the material better than sitting in a lecture. The material builds on itself, so it's important to grasp each concept before moving on. TAs are available on Teams for help.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I took Ben last year and I occasionally read the reviews for him. I can tell you that some of the positive reviews on here are written by his TAs. This man has no business teaching anything related to computer science, and the school should quit promoting awful lazy teachers. If you are stuck with Ben fellow students, then find a YouTuber.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Honestly, Say seems like a great person. Unfortunately, that does not translate to a good professor. Our midterm category is weighted at 60% of the final grade and the first midterm included content that ended up being introduced 2 entire weeks later. Luckily you can get weeks ahead on the work to be prepared for those incidents, shouldn't have to.