Reviews of professor Corey Baker

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Baker is good at reinforcing concepts with first teaching, and building them with the class. He is very understanding if assignments are a bit late and is responsive to the needs of the students. First half of the semester is focusing on basic concepts, then ramps up hard in work when working on the final project. Much time spend outside class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Baker doesn't know how to teach a class. You'd have better luck learning iOS development from a no name on YouTube, which you will unironically end up doing if you take this CS485G with him.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The iOS class was set up to be rather interesting but was not executed very well. While owning a mac wasn't mandatory, it was implied you had to buy one if you wanted to pass. Open times for lab access with the right software was a joke and the grades came from three or four short homeworks and a group project where github submissions were req'd.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Written directions and rubrics for projects are non-existent. Everyday you have an in-class assignment that is due at the end of class and he doesn't take late work. Almost no time to get the assignment done in class and he won't stop to answer questions if you fall behind. Most days, class went over by 30 minutes.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
At the beginning of the class, he teaches you like it's programming 101. After that, he randomly drops in long tutorials that you have to follow that are over the scope of the class. I feel like I was extremely excited for this class and it ended up being no better than some lengthy boring youtube playlist.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Baker is a nice guy but the course description for this class borders on being a complete lie and he fully just didn't grade 2 months of stuff we turned in until AFTER grades were supposed to be due. This isn't an app development class, it's a learn Apple CareKit class. The skills I hoped to learn in this class were almost completely ignored.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dr. Baker an intelligent man but he is a horrible teacher. His class dupes you into thinking you know what you're doing until you can't drop without losing 50% tuition on the course. If you do not physically own a mac device, do not take CS 485G. He is condescending with his answers to questions and puts no effort into actually teaching.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Corey Baker is objectively the worst professor I've had at UK. He doesn't "teach" anything he's just trying to grow his own Github Portfolio. He went over classtime 20-30 mins MANY times and saying we could leave was a joke because there was an "In-class" assignment due soon after class. Was condescending when asking questions. A stressful class.