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Supportive and caring to students' mental health. His course was supportive and the most organized compared to other CS courses. The course website has a lot of materials for study and he will upload recordings of every lecture to the website. In terms of the project being hard, he would do a demo in the lecture and upload it.\",\"course_id\":\"COMPSCI 544\",\"date\":\"2023-11-16 07:31:07 +0000 UTC\",\"difficulty_rating\":3,\"id\":\"0da88a6185ffe5b5470aec7f\",\"instructor_id\":\"rmp:2950714\",\"instructor_name\":\"Tyler Caraza-harter\",\"quality_rating\":5,\"source_review_id\":\"UmF0aW5nLTM4NDAzNDc4\",\"source_url\":\"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/2950714\"},{\"comment\":\"Chaotic, disorganized, and actively harmful to learning. Lectures are fast, shallow, and left us ~1.5 weeks behind the other section. Madgrades inaccurate, professors are targeting half the A rate and two exams were added. 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