Reviews for Chau-Wen Tseng
Average Rating:| Anonymous Course: CMSC330 Grade Expected: B+ August 31, 2012, 8:55 am | Some people like good lecturers, but I liked the fact that I could appropriate class time to do more productive things, like sleep. All the tools to get an A are on the class page (slides, practice problems, past exams). Also, it benefits you to start the project early since a couple of times we had quizzes and exams before a project was due. A couple of times I regretted focusing on the quizzes/exams then the projects because I then realized I would've been pro at the material if I had just worked on the project first. |
| OtG Course: CMSC330 Grade Expected: A+ March 21, 2012, 1:23 pm | Tseng is a pretty good professor, but his lectures are nothing special. The amount of material he distributes on the class website is ridiculous. In addition to all the slides from class and discussion, he posts practice quizzes/exams, the previous 4 versions of the quiz/exam, and general practice questions for each subject before every quiz/exam. He's an accommodating guy; just make sure to take the quizzes and exams seriously, because they cover a lot and are a bit part of the grade. |
| Anonymous Course: CMSC330 Grade Expected: February 12, 2011, 5:45 pm | The class doesn't really require a teacher because it's mostly just about learning the programming languages. There are a few more advanced concepts that Tseng explained decently. The projects take up a lot of time, but you will learn a lot from them. And at the end of the semester the projects die down significantly, which is nice because it gives you a chance to put in more time for your other classes. Some of the projects can be extremely frustrating though, especially when he doesn't give you an easy way to test them. For example, to test your code for one of our projects would have required days of writing out test inputs and figuring out their correct outputs. But even if you fail one project, it's still possible to get an A. Anyway, I'd say Tseng was fine for this class. |
| Anonymous Course: CMSC330 Grade Expected: October 12, 2009, 12:51 pm | Chau-wen taught this class with Foster, who seemed to think that all of us were geniuses. Chau-Wen seemed to be the weaker prof of the two. Foster controlled the primary parts of the exams and projects. He turned simples project into massive, tedious projects. So far in the semester, at least half the students never even finish the projects. As a teacher, he is not the most amazing teacher ever. He simply reads off the slides, and I never go to class because of it anymore. I don't know why they decided to make the projects so hard for us this semester. This class definitely isnt as easy as it used to be. It's much harder mostly because of the projects. I'm taking this class simultaneously with 311 and it's a living hell. Whatever you do, do NOT take this class with another programming class. Take something like 351 or a decent 400 level class instead. |
| fuzzyLogic Course: CMSC330 Grade Expected: A December 28, 2008, 5:40 pm | Passable via the power points as I don't remember attending any lectures after the first week. Midterms didn't fit a nice difficulty/length ratio. Curve was appropriate however. Projects were easy. The final was easy if you studied previous/practice exams and the power points carefully. |
| pluralfacade Course: CMSC330 Grade Expected: B December 7, 2008, 9:15 pm | Chau-Wen's class was....an interesting experience. Like many CS teachers, he is an expert in his area of research and really knows what he's talking about, but he ocassionally struggles in conveying this information to students who know nothing about it to begin with. His tests were probably his greatest weakness. They had good coverage of the required material, but the combination of the tests being both too long and having extremely challenging problems made them pretty much impossible to finish. Towards the end of the semester, he started to deviate from his own syllabus, but this was both good and bad. Instead of giving us Java projects at the end as originally planned, he instead put more focus into new programming languages, which proved to be helpful since Java had already been covered to a great detail in previous classes. The grades for the class were pretty low throughout the semester and many people were worried, but Chau-Wen had a pretty nice curve at the end. |
| Anonymous Course: CMSC330 Grade Expected: B July 1, 2008, 12:59 pm | His lecture were long and probably the most boring I ever been in. His exams covered so much material and it was impossible for even the smart kids in the class to finish. He also did not stick to the syllabus. |
| allie Course: CMSC330 Grade Expected: A June 4, 2008, 8:01 am | He gives you very detailed powerpoint notes that he posts online. I didn't have to take notes. He gave us good review materials for all the exams. The projects were reasonable. Overall he was a pretty good professor although lectures weren't too exciting...but how many comp sci lectures are? |
| ganelo Course: CMSC132H Grade Expected: B November 30, 2007, 8:09 am | He's a little idiosyncratic, but his class is fairly easy to understand, and he answers questions well (for the most part). Nelson is the main professor for CMSC132, so there isn't much Tseng can do with regards to exams, etc. |