I took up Prof. Abbadi's graduate course on Distributed Systems during winter 2011. I had great enthusiasm for the c ourse initially, but it turned out to be a super bummer. The coursework was pathetic. Too much theory and horrible choice of abstract research papers assigned for reading. His teaching was too abstract and the projects were a joke.

Take thorough notes in class, especially about examples and proofs, as they often show up on tests. The tests are challenging, but not unfair or unreasonable. However, the TAs that graded the homework when I took his class were hopeless. I had to get every single assignment regraded because of mistakes, but it worked out fine in the end.

great prof, very clear, fair homework assignment and project. Fair grading. Very easy to understand, friendly, challenging, everything a professor should be.

cs174b - very nice professor, good straight to the point lectures. quizzes were tough.

friendly and tend to give difficult quizzes. those problems are very creative but too hard for many to complete in 30 minutes.

Great lectures. Homework was difficult and needed the help of TA's to complete. Tests were not hard.

Great lectures. Clear and to the point. Homework was graded hard, go to TA office hours for homework help to get full credit. Midterm was not hard, final was alright. Test did not have things not covered in lecture or incredibly hard problems.

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Didn't grade on a curve exams were awful

nice and patient, good lecturer