Beug, Jim  

Computer Science

1.75/4.00

12 evaluations


CSC 330


5th Year Senior
B
Required (Major)
Jan 2004
Could lecture be more boring, I really dont know why he is still here. He read the book word for word, it was easier to just read the book than to listen to him. It was a long quarter.


Senior
C
Required (Major)
Feb 2004
Please don't take Jim Beug unless you really don't have any choice. He is Booring, slow, kinda rude, and doesn't seem to know the material very well at all. I would like to see him fired. He may not be a horrible person, but he doesn't do so well as a teacher. This is another sad reason that Educational Institutions should get rid of tenuring. On The good side it wasn't too tough of a class. I hear the other CSC330 professors are pretty hard. If you do take him, DO.. NOT... COME... TO.. CLASS. seriously. It isn't worth it.


Graduate Student
A
Required (Major)
Feb 2004
There are two tricks with Professor Beug. One is to take his class in the morning; he willingly admits his energy drops off after 13:00. The second trick is to ask questions. He is very happy to answer them and often supplements them with extra information you may not have gotten. Otherwise the class can come off as dull since the material is not always the most entertaining stuff in the world.


5th Year Senior
B
Required (Major)
Jul 2004
Beug is chill. I can't say I had any problems.


Senior
A
Required (Major)
Sep 2004
No worries.

CPE 453


Junior
B
Required (Major)
Jun 2002
That last evaluation was seriously dead on...Beug is a really nice guy, but not the greatest teacher in the world. If you know a little about OS's (or have taken 317 with Nico) and you are good at teaching yourself material, you will do fine in this class by never showing up but just reading the textbook. If you require a lot of explanations and detailed lectures, wait for another teacher. Nico is supposed to teach this class soon, so if you can wait, take him. I did relatively little work and got a B but this class is study intensive just before tests because, as the previous evaluation stated, you have to basically memorize the textbook. Anyway, there are students who would like Beug's teaching style...I am not one of them.

CSC 453


Senior
B
Required (Major)
Jun 2002
Beug lectures are very interesting in that every day feels like a review session. He goes over everything by looking at his condensed course outline, saying a few words about things and moving on. He does not write anything on the board or overhead, but occasionally uses overhead copies of diagrams from the textbook. He spends way too much time in class discussing tangents to the subject: 'Did any of you take some class, write in some language, mess with your own linux box in some way, or anything else you can imagine. He likes going over code, pointing out things that are interesting and irrelevant to his tests. The labs are fair, and require you to have a basic understanding of C programming. Most of the time it just requires you to modify a couple lines of code to finish it, and in the end you really don't always know what you're doing. If you complete it and write a thourough report, you'll get an 18/20. Deductions begin roughly at that point. For his tests, Beug hands out a review sheet with anywhere from 40-100+ questions. He says this gives you an advantage by knowing what he will ask, but in reality it has questions for lots of stuff that he didn't emphasize. Questions are redundant and their scope can be difficult to determine. The only way to feel fully prepared for his test is to go back and read everything in the book... a very poorly written book in that it goes over each subject in a 'overview, implementation, design' approach that splits up the things you need to know (understanding the problems and solutions) with the stuff you don't need to know (the implementation of the code). Overall Beug is a nice guy... though he mounts the tables and makes you wonder why you even attend class.


Senior
A
Required (Major)
Dec 2002
While some students may not care for Dr. Beug's teaching style, he is receptive to students' needs and is willing to spend whatever time needed to help you learn the course material (or advise you on other topics, like senior projects, grad school, etc.). His tests are somewhat unspecified in terms of the level of scope and detail he expects in an answer, but he appears to not be looking for one specific answer -- rather, a general understanding of the course material he is questioning you on.


Senior
B
Required (Major)
Dec 2002
Dr. Beug's tests are fairly easy, his homework load is fairly light, and his lab programming assignments will force you to learn the material that he doesn't adequately teach in his lectures. It's because of these assignments (and a phenomenal textbook) that I learned anything at all. Dr. Beug lectures by placing examples of program code on the overhead projector, glossing over it for a few seconds, and then switching transparencies. There is no form or logic to his lectures, and I would have gotten the same grade had I never gone to class. It's clear to me that Dr. Beug has been teaching this material for too long, and he's bored with it.


Senior
B
Required (Major)
Dec 2002
I don't know if Dr. Beug knows anything about Operating Systems. This is probably the worst thing I can say about this class, considering that I went there most of the time and got a good grade in it. I didn't learn anything except how to read a rather lousy textbook and pore through thousands of lines of C code. This could have been an interesting class, but it simply wasn't. Dr. Beug's lectures are poorly organized and cover very little. He goes off on tangents that are neither interesting nor amusing (which is the whole point of a tangent) and tells jokes that aren't funny. He talks in a slow monotone and doesn't say anything you can't read in the book. Most of the time is spent going over MINIX source code, which is neither interesting nor something you can't do on your own. After the first few weeks, I ended up coming only to turn in labs or take exams. Don't feel bad about missing class, because you're not missing much. You have two weeks to do each lab, which if you've taken CPE 317 will be nothing more than review. If you haven't, get good books on C programming and talk to other professors (e.g. Nico) when you need help. Dr. Beug will NOT help you in office hours. He makes it obvious you're not welcome and brushes off your comments and questions with barely disguised impatience. Most of the labs are quite easy to do if you know what you're doing, but the last one is ridiculous. I don't know if it's even possible, because nobody seems to have done it. You have to turn in a write up for every lab to pass the class. There is one midterm and a final, and you will know what's on it. Sounds good? Think again. About a week before each exam, he'll give you several pages of questions (it was 2 for the midterm, 4 for the final) chock full of questions in fine print. From those he'll take a clump of 10-12 consecutive questions. They're all essay and often include things he neither discussed in class nor addressed in labs. The only way to do well on these tests is to look over all the questions, memorize the textbook, and regurgitate all the answers you can remember. I should mention that Dr. Beug is not difficult nor entirely unpleasant. If you want to get off without much work, you might consider him. If you want to learn anything at all, take the class from someone else. This guy won't help you there.

BMED 549


Graduate Student
C
Elective
Nov 2016
Business majors: A degree for the intellectually impaired, HA HA.

CSC 550


Graduate Student
A
Required (Major)
Jul 2003
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. That's really all there is to say. You spend the first few weeks of class having him read snippets of boring papers to you all class period. He just reads to you. Argh! The last half is spent with students doing paper presentations which is slightly more interesting as there is actually discussion involved. However, even this isn't all that cool. Everyone is completely on their own to pick two papers out they would like to present. The only restriction is one must be a "classic" (old) paper and the other must be a "new" paper. Then there is a paper due the last day of class. He never said how long it was supposed to be, but i wrote 15p SS and got an A. Overall a really easy class (if you don't mind the paper) but not very interesting.