Reviews of professor Santosh Chandrasekhar

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
My experience with Santosh in previous courses like CSE 31 was very negative. However, Santosh in CSE 120 is pretty chill and puts more time and effort towards supporting the students. He is invested in helping your team make the best project possible for I2G. He only roasts teams that don't follow simple directions on assignments.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Mostly reads off a power point to teach which can get very dull. Midterms are somewhat difficult as I feel as there is not enough time and you will also learn most of the material from outside of lectures.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
He constantly goes over the given time limit for his class interfering with times of other classes. Lab assignments are given every week, but they can be quite challenging even with pseudocode. Exams are even worse since you are on a severe time crunch with long difficult questions. The amount of material covered is A LOT so be ready and good luck

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
this class is a lot of work. lectures important to go to and take good notes. class starts slow (at least if you have experience in C, otherwise glhf) but then picks up with an insanely difficult project that is assigned on top of regular labs and the midterm. there are only two projects, but I'd say they are as much work as 5 labs a piece.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
At least with remote instruction this guy is an absolute nightmare. Most lectures go overtime and the material is overexplained and poorly explained. For labs he used a plaigarism checker that flagged people who didn't even cheat in the first place, which could have been prevented had he required us to demo our code.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Last minute changes that weren't on the syllabus exam was changed last minute.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Very unforgiving grading. Grade is heavily dependent on tests and labs are not used for lab work. Lectures are not helpful.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He almost always goes 30-60 minutes overtime. He just reads off a powerpoint for lectures, so I had to learn everything on my own through the textbook or other online resources. The lecture slides are a quick summary of the textbook. Labs were for discussion worksheets and not for the assignments. Very little time given for midterms.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The only assignments he has in the gradebook are labs and exams meaning your grade is at the mercy of the exams of which he gives no leniency towards. The lectures are made up of him summarizing the slides which always have 70-130 slides per presentation, and he always goes over time because of his convoluted explanations. Be prepared to google.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Literally have to speedrun each midterm. The main beef I have with this man is his MOSS checker. Half the class got falsely accused of plagiarism and caused stress and panic to students during midterm week. If you have a commonly used efficient way of doing a code, I recommend doing the opposite to avoid unnecessary stress.