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He didn't even bring enough exams sheets to the final.\",\"course_id\":\"COMPSCI/ECE/MATH 435\",\"date\":\"2019-05-06 18:58:35 +0000 UTC\",\"difficulty_rating\":4,\"id\":\"0d1d1c4c1c61a43b58c2ccaa\",\"instructor_id\":\"rmp:125529\",\"instructor_name\":\"Eric Bach\",\"quality_rating\":1,\"source_review_id\":\"UmF0aW5nLTMxNzg1OTkz\",\"source_url\":\"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/125529\"},{\"comment\":\"Professor Bach is kind and clearly very knowledgeable regarding cryptography, but in no way does it translate to being a good instructor. He works strictly on a chalkboard, covers his work most the time, explains complex ideas in vague symbols, has confusing lectures, and assumes us to understand his proofs before he trails off. 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He doesn't use canvas at all and has a very minimal site made with just text and links to homework.\",\"course_id\":\"COMPSCI/ECE/MATH 435\",\"date\":\"2019-03-11 02:41:10 +0000 UTC\",\"difficulty_rating\":4,\"id\":\"74226025f0af522304a488ab\",\"instructor_id\":\"rmp:125529\",\"instructor_name\":\"Eric Bach\",\"quality_rating\":2,\"source_review_id\":\"UmF0aW5nLTMxNDIyNjQ5\",\"source_url\":\"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/125529\"},{\"comment\":\"Bach has a loose structure to his lectures and often rambles through examples/explanations. He will begin doing an example and won't finish it, instead saying, "well you get the point". His homework is much more involved than what he teaches in lecture, and even the notes don't help with some of the problems he assigns. 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He didn't even bring enough exams sheets to the final.\",\"course_id\":\"COMPSCI/ECE/MATH 435\",\"date\":\"2019-05-06 18:58:35 +0000 UTC\",\"difficulty_rating\":4,\"id\":\"0d1d1c4c1c61a43b58c2ccaa\",\"instructor_id\":\"rmp:125529\",\"instructor_name\":\"Eric Bach\",\"quality_rating\":1,\"source_review_id\":\"UmF0aW5nLTMxNzg1OTkz\",\"source_url\":\"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/125529\"},{\"comment\":\"Professor Bach is kind and clearly very knowledgeable regarding cryptography, but in no way does it translate to being a good instructor. He works strictly on a chalkboard, covers his work most the time, explains complex ideas in vague symbols, has confusing lectures, and assumes us to understand his proofs before he trails off. 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The problem is that the grade distribution is low, and the content is easy, which means that you might walk out with an A or a C for the same level of understanding just by making simple algebraic errors on exams.\",\"course_id\":\"COMPSCI/ECE/MATH 435\",\"date\":\"2019-02-04 01:18:34 +0000 UTC\",\"difficulty_rating\":1,\"id\":\"d23a94d220827bcd66eaeb4e\",\"instructor_id\":\"rmp:1536136\",\"instructor_name\":\"Nigel Boston\",\"quality_rating\":1,\"source_review_id\":\"UmF0aW5nLTMxMzMyMzQ2\",\"source_url\":\"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/1536136\"},{\"comment\":\"6 homework assignments, one 100% for turning in your name,lowest dropped so it was graded on 5 homeworks+free 100%, 2 midterms and a final. Low maintenance, so good to take with hard classes but the exams were kinda impossible unless you memorize every word of each topic. 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You can tell that he genuinely cares, though, and he works hard to make the material approachable. My biggest complaint is that he makes you do the homework in pairs. \",\"course_id\":\"COMPSCI/ECE/MATH 435\",\"date\":\"2015-01-10 00:08:45 +0000 UTC\",\"difficulty_rating\":3,\"id\":\"d22f0cf03edb98648ac4233c\",\"instructor_id\":\"rmp:981721\",\"instructor_name\":\"Somesh Jha\",\"quality_rating\":4,\"source_review_id\":\"UmF0aW5nLTI0MjYyNDIw\",\"source_url\":\"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/981721\"},{\"comment\":\"He is good in research, and the face-to-face lecture quality is above average, but when it turns to online, he skip classes for two weeks and I think the online lecture is not clear, he is a good guy, but just not get used to teach online due to COVID. 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Full examples are almost never shown anywhere.\",\"course_id\":\"COMPSCI/ECE/MATH 435\",\"date\":\"2019-03-24 19:33:29 +0000 UTC\",\"difficulty_rating\":5,\"id\":\"31b59707cdb575bb1907cc78\",\"instructor_id\":\"rmp:125529\",\"instructor_name\":\"Eric Bach\",\"quality_rating\":1,\"source_review_id\":\"UmF0aW5nLTMxNDcyNDgy\",\"source_url\":\"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/125529\"},{\"comment\":\"Lectures are useless because he teaches at a much higher level than the class requires. He will stand in front of the board, blocking it, write out a whole proof you can't follow audibly, then you have to attempt to piece it together from what he wrote once you actually can see it. Also homework is impossible. 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He didn't even bring enough exams sheets to the final.\",\"course_id\":\"COMPSCI/ECE/MATH 435\",\"date\":\"2019-05-06 18:58:35 +0000 UTC\",\"difficulty_rating\":4,\"id\":\"0d1d1c4c1c61a43b58c2ccaa\",\"instructor_id\":\"rmp:125529\",\"instructor_name\":\"Eric Bach\",\"quality_rating\":1,\"source_review_id\":\"UmF0aW5nLTMxNzg1OTkz\",\"source_url\":\"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/125529\"},{\"comment\":\"Professor Bach is kind and clearly very knowledgeable regarding cryptography, but in no way does it translate to being a good instructor. He works strictly on a chalkboard, covers his work most the time, explains complex ideas in vague symbols, has confusing lectures, and assumes us to understand his proofs before he trails off. 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