AI Rate Professor

Computer Science

Edwin Vargas

CS111 · 7 lifetime ratings

AI rating
16/100
RMP rating
1.1/5
Take again
0%
Difficulty
4.4

The decision

Avoid Vargas for CS111 unless and .

Best fit · Self Taught ProDoesn't know JavaConfusing lecturesTough inconsistent graderSelf-teach CS111Avoid for first CS
  • Students across years call CS111 lectures confusing, disorderly, and poorly explained.
  • Multiple reviews say he lacks solid Java knowledge and puts broken or .
  • ; several warn not to let him be your first CS professor.

Key questions

Four answers before you build your schedule.

Is this an easy A?

HardWork

22/100

, and C-minus or B grades with heavy outside work show A's are not easy.

Both Online and In person paint a high-effort path; no Easy A claims appear.

Is the course easy?

Challenging

24/100

Difficulty averages near 4.4 and while labs and .

Online and In person both describe high challenge with poor instructional support.

Is attendance flexible?

Mandatory

22/100

and participation matters, with pop quizzes as a risk.

and In person comments.

Is this professor recommended?

Avoid

5/100

Would-take-again is 0 percent and nearly every detailed review .

Recommendation is negative across Online and In person evidence.

Course guide

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Grading

Harsh

15/100

, and are recurring complaints.

Format shift

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Workload

Heavy

28/100

Lots of , and heavy self-study outside class are common.

Format shift

Workload pressure appears in both formats, especially In person tags.

Teaching experience

Awful

12/100

Students say lectures confuse them, Java knowledge seems weak, and teaching skill is not there.

Format shift

Online and In person both rate teaching quality near rock bottom.

Assessment method

FocusOnExams

78/100

Tests, pop quizzes, and labs dominate, with comments that exams leave students screwed.

Format shift

Assessment comments are mainly from In person reviews.

Luni fit check

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Course format

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Classroom format

In person

6 reviews

Medium confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

In-person CS111 reviews are almost uniformly harsh: , and disrespectful grading.

Main concern

You must self-teach while , and .

What students said

“Doesn't know Java at all. ”
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“You'll be screwed for !”
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Remote format

Online

1 reviews

Low confidence · Best fit for Self Taught Pro

One Online freshman said he avoided actual coding content for history talk while .

Main concern

Course content mismatch with labs and steep coding expectations.

What students said

“he wasn't even teaching the actual course material and instead wanted to talk about the history”
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Exam style

Know what to expect from exams and major assignments.

Exams and quizzes are described as tough and poorly aligned with teaching; no student-friendly open-book evidence appears.

Tough TestsPop QuizzesCode That May Not CompileTest Heavy

Assessment risk

Strict

28/100

Low score means less forgiving assessment conditions.

In person

In , and even non-compiling code on exams.

Tough TestsPop QuizzesNon-Compiling Test CodeTest Heavy
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“You'll be screwed for !”
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Online

Online review stresses labs based solely on coding skill and .

Pop QuizzesLab Coding Focus
“the code and understand of how to code.”
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Student evidence

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Top student voice

“Doesn't know Java at all. Puts code on test that doesn't even compile, he's a teacher and can't create code that compiles?”

Voice snapshots generated from 7 reviews (1 Online, 6 In person), highlighting teaching failure and . Credibility rating: Medium.

🎯 Teaching Quality

12/100

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🚫 Recommendation

5/100

“don't let him ruin your first experience of CS if this will be your first class”

🧪

20/100

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📚

25/100

“Relied heavily on outside help and lots of time reading and .”

Theme 1

👨‍🏫 About Teaching Style

  • .
  • Isn't very good at teaching, he has to refer to the book
  • Lectures are disorderly and confusing.

Theme 2

💻 About Java Knowledge

  • Doesn't know Java at all.
  • he does not have a solid knowledge of java

Theme 3

⚖️

  • and inconsistent
  • Very disrespectful and always ignores students that are not his favorites.
  • So .

Data context

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Analysis sample

7

Recent reviews read by the AI

7

Lifetime ratings

58/100

Evidence confidence

Seven consistently negative reviews with detailed examples support a , but the sample is still modest and mostly older.

Inside 7 stored ratings

Quality ratings

5 out of 50
4 out of 50
3 out of 50
2 out of 51
1 out of 56

Course coverage

CS1117 reviews

Reported outcomes

B range results lead the reported letter grades.

3 reported outcomes

A range

0

No reported values

B range

1

B 1

C range

1

C- 1

D range

0

No reported values

F

0

No reported values

No letter grade reported

1

Drop/Withdrawal 1