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Rating for John Clements
Computer Science Department at Cal Poly, SLO

CSC 102
Junior
Grade Earned: C
Required (Major)
11:35 am, Jan 7, 2008

Clements is an interesting teacher, but the way he comes across doesn't work well for teaching. First, he (ah...) stammers quite a bit and (ah...) has the annoying habit of (ah...) taking pauses and saying (ah...) in the middle of a statment, which makes him hard to follow in class. I think he recognizes this and tries to go through the class asking people questions on the subject matter to make sure they're still awake and paying attention. Unfortunately, he often asks question on subject matter we're about to go over and don't necessarily have any foreknowledge of. This often led to different students coming up with answers that weren't what he was looking for and kept asking until he finally gave up and told us the specific answer he was looking for. He used two different programming environments, moving from his obviously preferred Dr. Scheme to the more commonly used Eclipse, and the students were forced to modify the habits they had developed in one to a completely different system of file management, some modified syntax for testing, and a different method for running programs halfway through the class in addition to everything else we were learning. Fortunately, he is a big help and goes over alot if you're willing to meet him on his office hours. Overall, I don't recommend taking his CPE-102 course.

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