Chamberlain

2 or less hrs/week

pretty easy class but didn't feel like I learned a lot. The professor was super nice and easily to talk to but it wasn't lecture styled so it made it difficult to follow sometimes so I didn't really pay attention in class that much, but the tests were very easy and I feel like I just learned all the material right before the class.

5/17/2024

You don't have to read the textbook. There aren't enough TAs and the professor takes a long time to answer questions (at least he knows the answers), so it's nearly impossible to get help or graded during class or office hours. The content is useless for any CS major. The professor is nice. Easy content, I got a C because I missed stuff while sick.

11/16/2022

Haven't talked to him much, but he has been a great help on a couple assignments. Would recommend

10/14/2021

Professor Chamberlin was very helpful outside of class and he really cares about his students. TA and professor office hours are a necessity.

5/11/2020

Well, I personally don't like professors who are disorganized of lacking of interets, or unavailable to students. But I would say that Roger is not such a person . I am taking CSE 560M with him and he is really nice and clear, especially during office hours. Note the tags I gave along with my comments: hard-working is needed for his classes as well

11/9/2018

CSE 132 is one of those classes in which the structure of the class detriments the professor teaching it. Chamberlain is great in office hours and in one-on-one settings, but the nature of 132 is that most of the class is online and lab times are for demoing homework. Chamberlain is likely to over-explain answers, but he tries and he helps.

4/25/2018

Chamberlain is a great professor here. He gets a lot of unfair slack for the course he teaches, not because of him as a teacher. He knows so much about hardware and computer engineering, and he's always extremely happy to teach you anything you come to him for. He cares a lot about the success of his students and works hard to help everyone succeed

4/6/2017

No lectures because he is lazy. (I guess) Videos online, not helpful for homework. Homework is time-consuming. He don't have any self-respect since he delivers such a messy and unclear class.

3/26/2017

He tries to help and seems to be trying to improve the course. The labs are written during the semester so they're largely test run on students (not good). His lectures are incredibly boring and hard to follow... Tests are easy if you bothered learning the stuff. Get help from the TAs and you'll get an A. This class made me dislike coding though :(

5/12/2016

Because of him, I wanted to switch out of CompSci. How did he ever get to be assistant head of the department? He can't teach, goes on weird tangents, and can't answer questions from students in an understandable manner. Definitely take it with a different professor

11/13/2014

I really feel like Chamberlain tries. For 260, he literally stayed hours in lab to help us fix a stupid mistake. He also published lecture videos and notes. For 132, it is just a broken course that teaches deprecated topics. Also, teaching from a screen doesn't work for code. Lacked organization in class. Hard for new coders. GREAT IN OFFICE HOURS!

7/1/2014

The worst teacher I've had at Wash U. I echo all the reviews of 132 already up here. Has absolutely no teaching talent whatsoever. Try to take 132 with another teacher, if possible.

5/9/2014

I came into this class as a computer science major. I will be leaving it no longer a computer science major. Assigns incredibly confusingly-worded assignments, has no textbook and instead references broken web links to Wikipedia for students to \'learn from\'. Recently told students "I do not hold regularly scheduled office hours". Avoid him.

3/31/2014

I could go on and on. Literally the worst, most disorganized, unhelpful and disinterested teacher that I've ever had. I say disinterested because he clearly doesn't care about the students. Doesn't hold office hours. We are not provided with legitimate academic resources, but rather told to use Wikipedia and Google to figure out our problems. 0/10

3/24/2014

He is likely the worst teacher I've encountered in this school. I love computer science. I have an A in his class, but he is managing to turn me off the subject with his terrible lectures and extreme lack of direction with this class. I don't doubt he is smart, but he was not meant to be a teacher.

3/21/2014

Doesn't teach. I've heard 'google it' way more times than I should at a school with 43000 dollar tuition. maybe as the chair of CSE he doesn't have time to teach a 100 level class, but all I know is for one reason or another, he should NOT be teaching us. unorganized, no guidelines, uninteresting lectures(about interesting topics!) ect. very poor.

2/26/2014

Unhelpful, disorganized, not available, disorganized. No textbook, very very limited TAs. Impossible labs with no rubric.

2/24/2014

Good class, poor organization. Most of lectures were about talking about logistics, or the logistics of the logistics. Though in CS, the head professor doesn't make too much of a difference. There could be more TAs though.

4/18/2012