Reviews of professor Bert Gibbons

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Professor with real industry experience, clearly very skilled in all things Oracle. Probably the most qualified professor to teach database systems. Also, if you can't get an A in his classes, how are you in college?

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
He might be showing you things that u'll actually use in real job, but the whole course is all over the place. You're basically teaching yourself. Quizzes have nothing to do with the lectures. Homework descriptions are really unclear. to contact u have to dm, he almost never responds to mentions on discord. But at least it's easy A

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He talks a lot about irrelevant things (his job, his interviews, how much he makes, throwing shade at other proffs, his stocks, sports, etc...) which take time away from teaching. He reschedules class at the drop of hat with no care for others schedules. He never replies to emails, and does not show up to his office hours. He grades fairly.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Gibbons is very straightforward about what he expects and how he teaches the information. He was very helpful in answering questions about the material via email or discord, except for the last 2 weeks where he simply ignored many questions outside of class. Otherwise, I feel like I learned a lot and he is very good at teaching the material.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Rambles on and on but basically a decent guy, pretty forgiving with grades but there's a lot of tedious, automatically graded work (quizzes, labs, exams, projects). Overall if you have to take databases he's not the worst professor I've had. It's just a really boring topic.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This class is fast-paced. You must do the reading and homework assignments in order to keep up with the lectures. This is an excellent class for students who want to get the most out of an Object-Oriented programming course.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof. Gibbons has amazing and engaging lectures! He also records them so you can refer back later. Assignments consist of HW (building database schema and writing SQL code), quizzes, exams, and 1 group project. Prof. Gibbons really cares about his students' success and is available for questions via office hours/email/piazza. BEST database class!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Labs were very difficult if youve never seen Java before. Lots of time spent at his office hours and at TA office hours. Tests are almost entirely based off of what he goes over in class, so show up and take notes or watch course capture. Quizzes are based off of textbook chapters and some chapters arent in the book we had