CS 3120

Pros:
Floryan is genuinely a great professor and lecturer and I am glad I got to take a course with him.

Cons: Literally everything else. This class has 75 percent of your grade being determined by quizzes and it’s absolutely nuts. Mind you these are not easy quizzes, and as a side note 40 percent of them are T/F! Each quiz goes way beyond the difficulty of what’s taught in lecture, so my number one advice is READ AND MEMORIZE THE TEXTBOOK, it is the best resource you have by far!

Furthermore one quiz contained a problem we saw for 15 minutes in lecture one day, and so anyone who skips class must’ve missed the entire back page because I struggled having gone to class.

On top of all this, the PA’s are graded extremely harshly and if you do not go to OH you will get points off for sure. If you think this is a class you can take a day off in then you will be badly mistaken. I have NEVER in my life been so happy to pass a class just so I don’t have to take it anymore. This was the source of 99 percent of my stress and worry this semester. Floryan you absolutely rock and I loved you as a professor but oh my gosh this grading policy has got to change.

Professor is a charismatic lecture which helps with the material which is inherently dry. Floryan has a great attitude about things and seemed to be a pretty fair, impartial professor. The only thing I didn't like about this class was how much tests made up the percentage of our grade in this class, as the tests were pretty hard to do well on. In the end, my success came from heavily studying the textbook concepts, since they built off what was in lecture in a bit more refined detail needed for acing the exams.

I showed my therapist his face and he said he looks like a chomo. Needless to say I wouldn't be surprised. Pickiest grader! And on top of that He TOOK AWAY POINTS FROM MY REGRADE REQUEST.

I emailed him about needing help and he ghosted me. Such an asshole. He always talks down to you!!!

I genuinely loved the material the class is extremely interesting and tbh its very easy but he just sucks.