Reviews of professor Craig Poma

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Secure Python Class. 8 Labs/4 Discussions. You can review all of the assignments a week before class starts to get an idea of level of effort to complete the class. Professor gives clear grading criteria, posts examples, reviews your work in virtual office hours. Found class and Professor to be very good. Just make sure to read his weekly guidance

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Cheaters beware - he runs everything through a NLP solution he wrote. Seems better than TurnItIn at catching things. It flags anything ever submitted from Fiveer, Coursehero, historical semesters, seems to crawl the web. That said. He is very fair. He is very accessible. Great office hours help. Responds to questions with real world answers.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dude is pretty awesome. He is very accessible via email/classroom forums. If you read his announcements and "Ask the Professor" postings the class is very manageable. Make sure to take advantage of his virtual "office hours" he will review your stuff and give you tips/guidance. The assignment solutions he posts are spot on and help you code better

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I'm a full-time developer going back to school, and I still struggled to get the weekly lab assignments done under 15 hours. He has clear grading criteria, but doesn't really "instruct". Everything is online from w3schools and php open source docs. There really is no feedback on the correct way, so I didn't really learn how to build secure apps.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This guy knows his stuff. He may miss something on one of your assignments, but he is very accessible for corrections and checks the forums daily for any. UMGC's classic lack of information, documentation or updating for the materials is compensated by his plethora of posts and announcements containing clarification and guidance.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I am grateful to professor Poma. He is a lenient grader, but i have to say there was not much actual direction given in the class aside from reading the pre-written course materials. Overall i felt lost at times in the class and didn't feel like the materials were helping. Tough class but i managed with a B, just feel i could've learned more.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He gives real world examples off his GITLAB account. Example: How to use terraform to deploy a Developer workstation in the cloud or how to build a scheduling tool to manage instance up/down time for budget purposes. The material he conveyed outside of the labs is very real world applicable. Very responsive over email and classroom. Knows his stuff

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He's a pretty nice grader. Not a great "instructor" though. He knows the material but doesn't really give any additional help beyond the course content that's provided (all from php(.)net and W3Schools). I'm truly disappointed with the quality of instruction from UMUC and their adjunct professors. Really think I could've learned more...