Reviews of professor Marco Serafini

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
CS345 is not a hard class. Marco unfortunately gets overshadowed by Jaime Davila who's the MVP when it comes to database design faculty. If you take Marco, though, know he's a really caring guy. He has extended HWs due to acknowledging burdens. Come to class as he asks if anyone needs clarification. His German accent may be harder to understand.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
It is clear to me that Marco Serafini has a weak grasp on the content he is teaching. Many times he said information made up from his brain as fact and has, on occasion, contradicted himself about course policies. 445 isn't hard, but more practical examples should be provided when explaining concepts like memory access and data storage concepts.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Exams were pretty hard but all the other work wasn't that bad. Watching the lectures and slides are all you need. Lectures can be dry but watching them at 2x speed does the job. Not a free A but not a lot of time needed for CS 445. Marco does care about the student's wellbeing and has extended HWs due to exam week / a HW being too long.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Garbage. Course is just unorganized. Lab materials are poorly formatted, littered with typos, and reference concepts never introduced in the text or prerecorded lectures. The class made me hate database design.