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Dekhtyar, Alex

Cumulative GPA: 2.44/4.00 with 9 evaluations
Presents Material Clearly: 2.44
Recognizes Student Difficulties: 2.78

Computer Science Department, Cal Poly, SLO
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CSC 466 Junior Grade Earned: A Elective 12:51 am, Jun 13, 2012 Report Evaluation		Alex is a bit of a conundrum... You will go through the Quarter not knowing you grade on Labs/Programs till the very and (and even when the Quarter is over you won't know too much besides your final grade letter). This is one element of the class I wish Alex could have done differently, having feedback on your assignments and at least having an idea of where you stand in the class come finals week would be nice. Alex tends to assign A LOT of work (for example 4 concurrent assignments). You should have a light course load when you take a class Alex is teaching. It will require you take most of your free time working on material for his class. That being said, if you have the time to spend you can do well. There aren't hidden test cases or strange things that popup on Labs/Programs. If you code the program to the specifications in his pdfs you will do well. Alex also tends to be a bit flexible on due dates, I think this is because he recognizes most students simply can't be putting in hours of work every day so as long as you finish the programs that is the most important part. If you've never had a class with him before and like a challenge give Alex a try.

CSC 101 Freshman Grade Earned: D Required (Major) 2:29 pm, Mar 8, 2012 Report Evaluation		Dekhtyar doesn't teach the material well. He thinks that all his students understand the lecture, and throughout the quarter you will find that he thinks his students have "prior knowledge" of programming I would recommend taking a different professor. If you haven't have prior programming experience, I would recommend you take another professor. If you do have prior experience go right on ahead as this is an introductory class.

CSC 365 Sophomore Grade Earned: A Elective 3:28 pm, Nov 7, 2011 Report Evaluation		This professor is obviously enthusiastic about his subject material. He does his best to present it in the most interesting way possible. He's not the most organized though, and his handouts typically contain typos. Even so, he's pretty good at answering questions and will always try to help students out.

CPE 101 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 10:43 am, Mar 21, 2011 Report Evaluation		Very glad that I took Alex. I highly recommend him.

CSC 560 Graduate Student Grade Earned: A Elective 11:16 am, Dec 2, 2010 Report Evaluation		Dr. Dekhtyar is great. He truly cares about the students and enjoys teaching. Sometimes I would get lost during his lectures--though this was probably just me and my lack of loving algebra. A fellow grad student put it best: \"Any Dekhtyar class is worth taking.\"

CSC 349 Junior Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 10:52 pm, Nov 16, 2010 Report Evaluation		Overall, Dekhtyar is a pretty cool professor. The class is hard, and he at least makes it a little less painful. He does have a Russian accent, but it\'s not that bad once you get used to it. So are the stutters, but you get over it and it doesn\'t really inhibit the material at all. No need to take notes, he prints everything out. Although, the handouts do have a few mistakes from time to time and can get a little confusing (since sometimes what he lectures about or writes on the board is a little different than what he handed out), but he\'s pretty good at correcting or explaining himself if there is a mistake. There are labs due about once a week and are quite lengthy and big. Their like smaller projects you might see in other courses. They ask you to a lot of analysis of data and putting it in a report. There were two midterms and a final that mostly covered the basics of the algorithms covered in class, and then had a few problems that asked you to derive your own algorithm to solve a problem (which could be a modification of one of the other algorithms). These latter were always a bit harder, but the test was graded in a manor that you weren\'t heavily penalized for not being able to do these and could easily pass the class with a B. Easily Top 5 Professor I\'ve taken.

CSC 101 Freshman Grade Earned: F Required (Major) 11:27 am, Feb 22, 2010 Report Evaluation		The worse teacher at Cal Poly. Hard to understand and thinks he is above the students. I had to retake the class and I am now doing well because my new teacher actually explains what he is teaching and does not expect us to know it already.



CSC 101 Freshman Grade Earned: B Required (Major) 2:33 pm, Feb 14, 2010 Report Evaluation		Even alex didnt rock the class. But he didnt suck as well. He would give you a lot of handouts during the quarter. You still can self-teaching with the handouts, even he couldnt explain the materials clearly. We had 9 programs in one quarter, some of them were making the PPM files which were usd to display the images. I think making PPM was not easy, and you might receive bad grades from PPM programs. His midterms were not hard, you could have sample midterms before the actuall tests, so you would know what the midterms would look like.The curve was the way harder than midterms, but he would do curve for you.

CPE 101 Freshman Grade Earned: A Required (Major) 7:00 pm, Dec 16, 2008 Report Evaluation		His lectures were boring and poorly executed. However, if you think you have any questions concerning the material, ask them during the lecture. He is not easy to approach during labs and gets somewhat moody if you ask him a question during the lab. Don't be surprised if some instructions on the labs or labexams are unclear or some of the sample outputs are incorrect, this is normal for him. The key to passing the labexams is staying calm. I have seen many a student who didn't pass because they were panicky and weren't thinking straight. Be confident, you can do it!

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