Reviews of professor Oliver Layton

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
A good hire by the CS dept! Caring about students, very nice/friendly to talk to. Sometimes he goes a bit confusing in lectures but he will provide clear powerpoints and codes after class to help you study. He's better in labs/helping you out with projects. Anticipate long queue for office hrs but that's the thing for cs Dept. Will take again!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
He is new here but he is very supportive. He gives clear lectures and will code with his students on class. He provides clear slides and python files in his website. Some times it's hard to ask questions because there too many students. But that is what's going on in CS department. Many students. He is also cute and holds activities in hillside.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
My first contact with computer science. I loved it. Professor Layton was incredibly supportive. I don't have anything to compare it to, but I really enjoyed lectures. He would keep us interested by having us work through the slides with him, give projects fun names, and even play an easy little computer science game on the screen to wake us up.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I'M HIGH ON OLIVER... he's such a wonderful and caring professor who makes advanced topics (neural network/machine learning) very digestible. Makes me become genuinely interested in the subject and motivated to learn more.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Oliver is the best lecturer at Colby for CS, hands-down. He can get me excited about the math of a neural network and make me think "damn, convolution is really cool." Also very knowledgeable, personable, and humble

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Oliver is amazing! His lectures are VERY well-organized. Plus, I've never seen any professor who responds email quicker than he does. I took my first CS course at Colby with him and truly ENJOYED everything! He's being super supportive and is always willing to help you outside class. He's also a very nice guy to talk to.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Really nice professor. Super cool guy. He teaches really practical stuff and you will feel like you truly learned a lot from his class. As a CS professor he could even teaches us a lot of related math concepts.