Professor
Iftikhar Burhanuddin
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Took Math with Ifti. His lectures were really boring and came straight from the book (literally-- he copied everything word-for-word and even read all the sentences out loud). However, his weekly homework was really doable, but it sucked having to come to class every Friday just to turn in the homework (I developed a habit of reading the book for myself during class time in the library instead of listening to him read it to me). His tests were super straight forward and I ended up with a B+ with pretty minimal effort. I don't even think a curve was necessary.
Took Math with Ifti. His lectures were really boring and came straight from the book (literally-- he copied everything word-for-word and even read all the sentences out loud). However, his weekly homework was really doable, but it sucked having to come to class every Friday just to turn in the homework (I developed a habit of reading the book for myself during class time in the library instead of listening to him read it to me). His tests were super straight forward and I ended up with a B+ with pretty minimal effort. I don't even think a curve was necessary.
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I had this professor for PIC 10A (it wouldn't let me submit without choosing a class). His lectures were THE MOST BORING THING EVER. He was not engaging at all, and a lot of people fell asleep or stopped showing up. That said, I would recommend going to all of them because he goes over exactly what will show up on the mid terms and final in his lectures as programming exercises in class. The homework wasn't particularly hard or confusing, just tedious. Get started on the assignments early (especially the ones near the end of the quarter because those took much longer than the first few), and understand everything you're doing on them because he asks questions on the tests which are very similar to the homework. The class wasn't hard - I gave the homework its due diligence and went to all the lecture and got an A.
I had this professor for PIC 10A (it wouldn't let me submit without choosing a class). His lectures were THE MOST BORING THING EVER. He was not engaging at all, and a lot of people fell asleep or stopped showing up. That said, I would recommend going to all of them because he goes over exactly what will show up on the mid terms and final in his lectures as programming exercises in class. The homework wasn't particularly hard or confusing, just tedious. Get started on the assignments early (especially the ones near the end of the quarter because those took much longer than the first few), and understand everything you're doing on them because he asks questions on the tests which are very similar to the homework. The class wasn't hard - I gave the homework its due diligence and went to all the lecture and got an A.
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I had PIC 10A with this professor. I didn't really talk to him, but he seemed nice enough and he encouraged questions during lecture, which was cool. You definitely should go to lecture in my opinion. Sometimes a couple questions (or similar ones) from lecture show up on the tests. My only problem, was that he went a quite fast and seemed like he thought we all had some background in programming even though it's an intro class(which it seems like a lot did). I did not have any prior knowledge so sometimes I found myself lost in class because he went quickly. He also covered a lot of material. His first midterm was easy and I did well, but then he moved a lot faster and made the second one a lot harder and the average went way down. His final was somewhere more in the middle. I had to study quite a bit, but I ended up with a B. It's doable, but I would suggest a slower professor if you've never done any programming to make your life a little easier.
I had PIC 10A with this professor. I didn't really talk to him, but he seemed nice enough and he encouraged questions during lecture, which was cool. You definitely should go to lecture in my opinion. Sometimes a couple questions (or similar ones) from lecture show up on the tests. My only problem, was that he went a quite fast and seemed like he thought we all had some background in programming even though it's an intro class(which it seems like a lot did). I did not have any prior knowledge so sometimes I found myself lost in class because he went quickly. He also covered a lot of material. His first midterm was easy and I did well, but then he moved a lot faster and made the second one a lot harder and the average went way down. His final was somewhere more in the middle. I had to study quite a bit, but I ended up with a B. It's doable, but I would suggest a slower professor if you've never done any programming to make your life a little easier.
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I took PIC10A during Spring 2010. I don't know why people say don't go to lecture, his style is very different but I went to almost every lecture and learned valuable information at each one. The book for the class is not very helpful. I also got an A and have never programmed in my life before. If you do bad on the exams it is probably because you did not go to lecture. The discussions are only alright, it depends on whether the TA is helpful. I would highly recommend Prof Ifti. I read over the other professor's slides to review concepts and I think Prof Ifti's way of presenting the material is helpful to understand computers and programming in general. He also incorporates tech facts at the start of lecture and has students write a blog which I thought was a good addition to the class. He replies to emails very fast as well. Overall good class. Not as hard as CS31 because you aren't required to make programs fool proof, but it teaches you similar stuff.
I took PIC10A during Spring 2010. I don't know why people say don't go to lecture, his style is very different but I went to almost every lecture and learned valuable information at each one. The book for the class is not very helpful. I also got an A and have never programmed in my life before. If you do bad on the exams it is probably because you did not go to lecture. The discussions are only alright, it depends on whether the TA is helpful. I would highly recommend Prof Ifti. I read over the other professor's slides to review concepts and I think Prof Ifti's way of presenting the material is helpful to understand computers and programming in general. He also incorporates tech facts at the start of lecture and has students write a blog which I thought was a good addition to the class. He replies to emails very fast as well. Overall good class. Not as hard as CS31 because you aren't required to make programs fool proof, but it teaches you similar stuff.
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