Reviews for Alan L. Sussman
Average Rating:| Anonymous Course: CMSC216 Grade Expected: B December 23, 2010, 5:09 pm | This is my first B of college, and it was a travesty the manner in which I lost my 4.0 gpa. To quote a previous review: "He is one of the most terrible, boring, and unresponsive professors you'll ever deal with. He DOESN'T care about you, nor he cares about your concerns. He is there to do his research, to get paid or whatever other reasons he might have. He is not there to teach you." Sussman's projects were awfully and strictly graded, with averages in the 60%'s, and his tests were even worse, and had such difficult questions that everyone knew they failed (average on the tests were around 60%). Many people dropped this class with a W, others dropped Computer Science as a major, others got horrible grades and planned to retake the class. Whatever it is, this class was the doom of many people, and I took it the first semester it was offered, which means it was even more horribly taught than 212 since it was a new class. F*** you Sussman, and the computer science department, for making such a bullsh*t class with nothing to gain. I have no real-world knowledge of C or Assembly language programming from this class. Just my first B of college. That's all. |
| random Course: CMSC213 Grade Expected: A June 7, 2010, 10:01 pm | Prof Sussman takes couple of lectures getting used to. Yes, he reads a lot from slides. But this class (I took it as CMSC213/313 but it is now renamed CMSC216) is a fairly hard class. You have to put in significant effort to do well. Sussman's projects and tests are not easy. His grading is mostly fair. But he is very smart and knowledgeable, which means he will pose those tricky ones you don't expect. I did like his class quite a bit. You just have to be prepared to learn a lot of stuff, at a fairly fast pace, and get used to his method of teaching. I would recommend him for this class. |
| Anonymous Course: CMSC212 Grade Expected: A January 15, 2009, 6:03 pm | He is one of the most terrible, boring, and unresponsive professors you'll ever deal with. He DOESN'T care about you, nor he cares about your concerns. He is there to do his research, to get paid or whatever other reasons he might have. He is not there to teach you. |
| Anonymous Course: CMSC212 Grade Expected: A December 26, 2008, 6:24 pm | Dr. Sussman is a very nice person. He is very helpful outside of the classroom. His lectures are extremely boring though. He literary reads the power point presentations. This semester he did not run 212 (Herman did), so he did not write the exams. Overall Sussman is a good person, but for what I experienced you get the same by staying home and reading his power point presentations. Grading was fair though. And by the way, 212 is not actually as hard as people say it is, the only thing is Herman asks the most stupid and usless questions in the exams (usually worth 25% of the exam) in which he literary asks you to know the specific name of that one little think her barely mentioned that one day... everything else is easy and fair. |