Peters, Timothy  

TBH, TJ PETERS IS A HOMIE. He gives life lessons in class. In all seriousness, just read the book, and go to class cause he knows who is there.

This guy is awesome!! He is full of knowledge and is always wiling to help. He even comes in on the weekends to help. The class is on a curve so it can only help you. 10/10 Recommend! One midterm and One final!

Dr. Peters is a nice professor. But he doesn't really convey a passion for IS and his lectures are boring as hell. Most of my class never showed up to his biweekly lectures. He is very available at office hours and he does try his best to answer questions - he's just not always the best at giving good answers. Would recommend another teacher if possible and if you're really excited about IS

Very boring class. Nobody pays attention. There is an exercise you get every class which is due a week later. Most of them weren't hard, but a few were very frustrating. His lectures are sooooooooooo boring. I just do the exercises during class. Midterm is hard. Got a 50%. A lot of the class failed. But don't worry cause nobody gets below a C-. I got a 50% on the midterm and have a B in the class. Do not worry!!!! Easy class.

He has a weird way of teaching coding. As in, he expects us to know the syntax and doesn't start with the small things. Majority of class is usually either confused or bored.

Don't get me wrong, Peters is a very nice guy. Unfortunately, the man really has no idea how to structure a class or teach programming. The vast majority of the class got below 60% on the first midterm, and almost everyone seemed confused in pretty much every class session. I honestly came out of this class with zero knowledge of VBA.

Let's just say I know nothing about coding and the class average for the final was LESS THAN 40%

WARNING: This evaluation is being written one week into a quarter with Peters. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT, take Peters if you don't already have a functional understanding of VBA. I was fortunate enough to have experience in VBA prior to the class. However, if I hadn't, Peters' teaching style would have confused me to no end. He does a horrible job of explaining the basic fundamentals of the language, and jumps right in to random, sporadic concepts associated with VBA. Looking around the class, 4 out of 5 students are confused beyond belief. Avoid at all costs if you don't already have a working knowledge of VBA.

Have you learned to program in the past? You have? Good, then this class will be a breeze. However, if you have never learned to program, Peters will fail to teach you. He will fail, and you will fail. Peters is by far the WORST professor I have ever seen at Poly. This course is supposed to teach students how to program. No one learns how to program from Peters. You're better off not attending class, watching youtube tutorials, and submitting the assignments online. This is honestly the first course at Poly where I believe attending the lectures may actually make you worse off. This course is so bad it's like the before version of a "Before and After" segment of an infomercial. Peters' style of teaching could almost be considered an act, an example of performance art on what it means to be a bad teacher. The only way his sheer level of inept teaching ability could be explained is if on the last day he revealed he was intentionally teaching poorly to assist his writing of "How Not to Teach A Single Thing and Yet Still Be Considered a Teacher: A Critique of the CSU System and a Dialogue on Tenure" By Timothy "Somehow A Professor" Peters.

Its week 5 and I have no idea what this professor is talking about during his lectures. He doesnt teach, but explains the code he writes and asks us "So how did this happen". The fuck? Obviously, for someone who has never coded before wouldn't know what is going on. I learned more about VBA in a 5 minute youtube tutorial than attending his lectures. Its a waste of my time and yours if you have to take his class. If you need 392, I'd highly recommend waiting another quarter so better teachers will be available to actually teach you VBA for the future. I think he might be worse or at the same level as Jonathan James. Lol..

I took this class Fall 2016, so I think we were one of his first classes. First of all, rest easy if you don't know shit and think you're going to fail: everyone fails all his midterms and finals so hard that he curved a class average 51% ON THE FINAL to everyone having AT LEAST A B-. YOU WILL PASS. Having said that, you will learn nothing. Peters is easily the worst lecturer I've had in OCOB, and with McQuaid around that's a tall task. It says "VBA" on my resume, but I literally could not write a single application for you if you asked me to. That's 392 with Peters. P.S. He's actually a really nice guy, just totally oblivious

This is the most useless class ever taught by the most useless professor ever.

95% of the class has absolutely no idea what's going on. By the end of the quarter only 15/45 students were actually going to class consistently. He curves the class a lot at the end of the quarter - you could literally get like a 15% in the class and still get a C. Everyone in the class passes, only 5 students were given a C or a C+, no Ds or Fs. I got a B after getting a 36% on the final and I literally know knowing about VBA. He's a nice guy and all but he cannot teach.

"Clone and tweak." He says that over and over bc he doesn't expect us to understand programming at all. His assignments were easy bc all we had to do was "clone" the code from the notes and "tweak" it until we got the desired output. He even told us to just copy and paste code offline for the project worth 15% of our grade. Do not stress about the project - he literally gave everyone 100% on it - even the kid that didn't show up for the presentation. Have fun cloning and tweaking if you take this prof

Professor Peters' class is not overly difficult if you just show up and follow along with all of the lectures. He holds your hand and it is a slow paced class, but you'll learn some of the cool basics for programming in Excel which I thought was pretty cool. Peters office hours are helpful and he'll work with you to get through any problems. The biggest key to doing well in this class is going to class and participating a lot. You're practically guaranteed to not do well on his ridiculous tests, no one does, but it is a heavily curved class and no one will get below a C- I believe. At the end of the day, he's a really nice guy and he'll teach you some pretty cool stuff over the course of the quarter, but it isn't exciting and it's at a pretty slow pace. Just show up!