Reviews For Azad Azadmanesh

Azadmanesh - csci3550
If you enjoy watching an uninterested professor plow through some incomprehensible PowerPoint slides that he wrote up at least a couple years ago, then this is the class for you. You will enjoy tests and homework that quiz you on unimportant minutiae. Concepts? Not here! Instead you'll find 6th grade arithmetic story problems that are easy, but you'll miss them because you forgot to write down the framing scheme for a particular cellular protocol on your cheat sheet.

Fun fact: If you aren't a good teacher, you can let your students use cheat sheets. This takes all responsibility off your shoulders to teach well, since hey, the students are free to sift through 75 PowerPoint slides, try to divine what's important and what isn't, and cram whatever might be relevant onto a single 8x11 page. And isn't that what teaching is all about?

Overall		Knowledge		Speech		Availability
Tangents		Homework		Exams		Grade Recieved	No Response
Class Taken Fall 2007

Pointless information that no one needs to know.
Teaching this class must be so easy. Read information off of Powerpoint slides, reuse all your tests and homeworks, test over pointless details that programmers, sysadmins and users don't need to know unless they're designing new protocols. Yeah, it would be easy to teach this class.

I seriously thought that we were going to cover Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone from the way that we spent time discussing ancient protocols that have been out of use for years. This is basically a math class; you'll be calculating CRC checksums and collision probabilities, etc. You get to use one sheet of paper as a cheat sheet for the test, so you'll get really good at typing enormous amounts of information up in six-point font. You might leave a topic off your sheet, thinking "There's no possible way he'll test over this", and then you'll see a question about it on the test. Also, if you ask him point-blank if something will be on the test and he says no, you should probably put that on your cheat sheet too in case it's still on the test. He also curves the grade pretty insanely so that the whole class doesn't fail. You get the feeling that the points don't matter and that he'll just assign you a grade at the end (he said "Grades are only one factor in your final grade", which is the stupidest thing I've ever heard a college professor say).

Take this class over the summer with Ken Dick. You'll learn practical information that you'll use in your career, not details that you'll forget a week later.

Overall		Knowledge		Speech		Availability
Tangents		Homework		Exams		Grade Recieved	B
Class Taken Spring 2011