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So how was software 3SH3 before it became garbage?

 
Old 02-05-2014 at 11:57 PM   #1
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So how was software 3SH3 before it became garbage?
So I am not particularly happy with how the new prof is doing things, and I would like to know if it's something new, or it was complete pile of doodies in the past as well.

I'm interested in:
Who was teaching it before?
What was the course like?
Old 02-06-2014 at 12:01 AM   #2
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I don't know answers to either of those questions. But I feel for you. The prof is absolute garbage.
Old 02-06-2014 at 12:16 AM   #3
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Ned taught it before. I'm not sure what the current prof is doing but we learned quite a bit about the low level stuff of an operating system.

About locks, some things about threads, about using gdb, probably more that I'm forgetting. I never went to class though, this was all through the assignments.
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Old 02-06-2014 at 12:24 AM   #4
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Ned taught it before.
You know, I said a lot of things about Ned after his 3X03. But in this case, I think this prof actually tops all charts of horridness. It really does take talent to make Ned's 3X03 look like Childs's 1ZA3.
Old 02-06-2014 at 07:26 AM   #5
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So I am not particularly happy with how the new prof is doing things, and I would like to know if it's something new, or it was complete pile of doodies in the past as well.

I'm interested in:
Who was teaching it before?
What was the course like?
I feel for you. Zheng is horrible. To expand on that, if you go to: http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~rzheng/c.../project1.html

Where she ripped the assignment off of Berkley, she didn't even bother changing the title of the webpage. It's still CS 162 Project 1, like seriously? I thought we were in Comp Sci 3SH3. And on top of that, the SDD template she provided, she also ripped that off of somewhere with no acknowledgements on our course page whatsoever!
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Old 02-06-2014 at 08:25 AM   #7
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I feel for you. Zheng is horrible. To expand on that, if you go to: http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~rzheng/c.../project1.html

Where she ripped the assignment off of Berkley, she didn't even bother changing the title of the webpage. It's still CS 162 Project 1, like seriously? I thought we were in Comp Sci 3SH3. And on top of that, the SDD template she provided, she also ripped that off of somewhere with no acknowledgements on our course page whatsoever!
It appears she came to us from the University of Houston. I read her page on ratemyprofessor, and most of the feedback was uber-negative. So how come people like that get to teach me on my money? Why doesn't the university check their course evaluations or whatever?

Also did she mention Berkley as sourcing in that assignment of ours? If not, can we report her for that?

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It appears she came to us from the University of Houston. I read her page on ratemyprofessor, and most of the feedback was uber-negative. So how come people like that get to teach me on my money? Why doesn't the university check their course evaluations or whatever?

Also did she mention Berkley as sourcing in that assignment of ours? If not, can we report her for that?
As far as I know, she hasn't mentioned ripping stuff off of Berkley at all. Nor has she given them credit anywhere on our course page. That being said, I believe if someone wanted to go that extent, they could report her either to a) Berkley's CS department and/or b) some department here at McMaster that deals with stuff like that which I wouldn't know of.
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From what I understand when I took the course last year, nachos is developed at Berkeley and there is a sort of agreement to share resources related to nachos (Assignments, Solutions, etc) between schools that use it.
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From what I understand when I took the course last year, nachos is developed at Berkeley and there is a sort of agreement to share resources related to nachos (Assignments, Solutions, etc) between schools that use it.
Ah rats, and here I hoped we could ditch her.
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You know, I said a lot of things about Ned after his 3X03. But in this case, I think this prof actually tops all charts of horridness. It really does take talent to make Ned's 3X03 look like Childs's 1ZA3.
Wait, my bad. Karakostas taught it before.

But I like Ned. Any professor who asks for written anonymous feedback in the middle of the term is good in my books. His teaching method might not be that good but at least he's trying.
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But I like Ned. Any professor who asks for written anonymous feedback in the middle of the term is good in my books. His teaching method might not be that good but at least he's trying.
That's how I feel too. He's not great, but he's at least less mediocre than most of the other professors in software here.
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For electrical, I'd ask the same question about 2DP4, 2CJ4, 3TP4, 3TR4, 3SK3, and 3EJ4. I'm lucky I only had Wu for 3SK3. Some poor students the year behind me get him for 2SI4, 2DI4, and 3SK3.
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But I like Ned. Any professor who asks for written anonymous feedback in the middle of the term is good in my books. His teaching method might not be that good but at least he's trying.
He does an awesome job in CS/SE4F03 (distributed systems).

From a couple previous threads, it sounds to me like the problems people had with CS4X03/SE3X03 were more to do with the course, and not his teaching.

Regardless, Ned was one of the best profs I had during my undergrad. Try taking courses with Bruha or Bokhari (who taught operating systems in 2010/2011).
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He does an awesome job in CS/SE4F03 (distributed systems).
Hmm, I would just say he did an okay job. My problem with him is he likes to teach a lot of "tricks" he knows in C, which work if you're using a compiler that hasn't been updated since the 80s, but just confuse modern compilers, either having no effect or actually reducing efficiency if anything in the end.

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From a couple previous threads, it sounds to me like the problems people had with CS4X03/SE3X03 were more to do with the course, and not his teaching.
lol, from what I've heard, he just makes it impossibly difficult, as compared to Dr. Qiao.

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Regardless, Ned was one of the best profs I had during my undergrad. Try taking courses with Bruha or Bokhari (who taught operating systems in 2010/2011).
Yup, him and Soltys are probably the most decent. Bokhari wasn't absolutely awful, but pretty underwhelming. I feel like the school should give everyone their money back for courses had with Bruha. I definitely learned absolutely nothing about software testing and user interface design from that guy...
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