Reviews of professor Daryl Posnett

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Homeworks are very heavily weighted screwing one up will tank your grade. Grading is done using his own system/AI and is an incredibly slow grader you will not know your final grade until grades are due. You can be doing fine in the class and still fail. Gives useless help in office hours and will rant about the class every few weeks.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Hard class. If you are passionate about computer science or want to genuinely learn, this is the guy you want. He is knowledgeable, entertaining, and caring. Expect to work, learn, grow, and have fun with the projects.

If you are a cheater or are trying to do the bare minimum, you are going to hate this guy. That's why I love him :).

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Posnett's the hardest and unlikable professors at Sac. He records lectures but refuses to post them (Says it's too hard). He reads straight off the slides but adds tid bits that you need to know for the quizzes. He grades insanely slowly and doesn't feel any sense of hurry. It feels like he wants us to fail or just have a hard time for his enjoymen

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This professor caused so much anxiety and stress because you will have no idea where you stand in class until AFTER grades are due You have to wait a great amount of excruciating wait time to know if you passed or not, so forget about emailing him. The lectures are heavily based on power points, but exams are based on the text book reading.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He makes 5 minutes feel like 45 minutes. Feels like he doesn't care about his students. He does not accept late work which dropped my grade from a B- to an F because my internet went out and didn't care to listen to what I had to say when I saw him in office hours. Overall, this class is hard, but Posnett is just not a good professor.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Not as horrible as the reviews seem. Not the best, but definitely worse options for 139 out there. Grading is slow, lectures often go on tangents, quizzes are short & based on quizlet, but projects are free points. Can teach yourself the material for the most part. If you want to pass, this is solid. If you want to learn, look elsewhere.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is extremely defensive to questions. 

He sucks at answering questions. 

He only cares about inconveniences for himself. 

He had a sermon on how he couldn't make it to class because 
he thought his car would break down but expects students to 
show up no matter what because it is not his problem.
 
He expects students to debug his assignments.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Worst option in general as a professor. Waste your money on someone else.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
As a professor, his teaching materials vary between lectures and homework. Expect to dive into docs, videos, and man-pages. If the lectures covered parallelism and hands-on networking, it would be a great class, especially if it weren't just 'reading the slides.' It's not worth a degree requirement, but as an elective, it could be an okay class.