Course and Teacher Evaluations for COMP_SCI Fall Quarter 2005-2006

COMP_SCI: Computer Science

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Bruce Gooch 130-0 section 20: Tools and Technology of the World-Wide Web Fall 2005-2006

30 students enrolled 90.0% responded

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Multiple Choice Questions

key to questions: 1 is low, 6 is high

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1. Instruction: overall rating		27/30
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3. Amount learned in course		26/30
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4. Level of intellectual challenge		27/30
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5. Interest stimulated in course		27/30
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6. Time spent per week		26/30
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Comments

I got exactly what I thought I would out of this class, a basic background of web design. Class was pretty interesting, and the easiest thing I've taken since 8th grade. Take this class for a math distro in medill. / Gooch is perhaps my favorite professor in the past four years--his emphasis on self-learning is awesome and he brings such enthusiam and care to the classroom/ You will learn a lot of cool stuff. There are no quizzes or tests which is also very nice./ Real easy class. No tests and 8 homework assignments that take under an hour each. Easiest class i've taken at NU. The subject is also interesting and you learn a lot. You don't need any experience with computers so don't worry about that. / This class was awesome. It was a nice break from my hader techie classes, and I learned about something I was interested in. It's an easy/fun A! Gooch rocks. / This was probably one of the most useful courses I have taken at NU. Prof gooch is really great and I enjoyed this course very much./ Easy class. Gooch is hilarious, take this class with him. Weekly assignments that are fun more than they are an assignment./ So easy- you just copy what the prof shows you in class and rearrange it a little to make it your own for most assignments. really easy tech elective and you learn basic webpage-making skills. you dont even really have to go to class/ Prof. Gooch is a pretty cool guy. If you already have some experience with web design, the class is pretty easy, and the lectures can be boring because of their simplicity. But the prof is always more than willing to help you out if you have a problem with your work, and it's a really great atmosphere for learning./ I walked into this class not even knowing what html was and now I at least know what it stands for. This class is definitely an easy A, but it's a blow-off class that's afraid to embrace it's essence. You have to write/BS a 10 page paper for the first assignment, which scared some people away. However, if you know how to copy and paste, the other assignments are simple, especially if you know anything about creating websites (or befriend someone who does!) The final project website may consume your life and reading week, but I would still highly recommend this class. / This class is great! Be prepared to learn a lot on your own, but that shouldn't deter you from taking the class./ I found this to be a very fun course. It is only as demanding as you make it, depending on how you expect your projects to end up. There's no textbook, you basically teach yourself using online tutorials you find on Google, but Gooch does talk about graphics, site development, and asks for feedback from students. Sanjay is awesome./ Easiest A at Northwestern, but that doesn't make it a good thing. Gooch is extremely unorganized and underprepared, even for this simple of a class. Also, he makes a lot of stuff up that is factually incorrect and/or out of date. Take this class for an A if you must, but ideally take it with another instructor./ EASY CLASS! Frustrating teacher. / If you're really interested in web design, you're better off searching online for tutorials, because this class won't take you much farther than where you've probably gone on your own. However, it does provide some good direction and the PHP stuff was interesting. It's an easy class, but be prepared to spend a lot of time looking at tutorials and fiddling with code, because Gooch will not explain much in class. / Great class! Do it!/ The Big Gooch is a great guy. There's never any pressure because he's flexible and will adjust when things come up. We would have learned a lot more with some more structure to the class, but then again, that's just more work./ One assignment per week that utilizes whatever technique we have learned that week makes this class a no-brainer. You don't have to go to lecture except on the days when you might present your page, but that's really just for show. It's an easy A; just be ready to spend several hours pulling your hair out trying to figure out why something won't display on your website, only to find that you put a ";" in your code instead of a ":"--but its worth the end result because you will be proud of your pages!/ Cool class, will help you learn basic web design and organization if you don't already know it, and will help you get into a bit more advanced subject matter: CSS, pHp, javascript. Good course to take if you have three other really difficult classes that quarter./ A lot of work outside of class. Bruce is nice./ This was a good class if you want to learn about HTML. It's a TON of work think, so you might want to think twice about taking it as a blow off class. You spend alot of time outside of class just trying to teach yourself the material, but you do learn alot abotu HTML. / Prof. Gooch is quite an entertaining lecturer, and he makes his class a lot of fun./ This class was SOOOO easy. Great distro.

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My main interest before taking	My main reason for taking	My class	My school
Response Rate: 27/30		Response Rate: 27/30	Response Rate: 27/30
6 - Very High 26% 5 19% 4 44% 3 7% 2 0% 1 - Very Low 4%	Distribution 22% Major 0% Minor 0% Elective 26% Other 15% None 37%	Freshman 0% Sophomore 44% Junior 15% Senior 41% Grad 0% Other 0%	KGSM 0% SESP 4% Medill 19% WCAS 44% Music 0% Commun 26% McCormick 7% Graduate School 0% Summer Session 0% SCS 0%