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Derek Richardson ASTR415 Expecting an A+ Anonymous 01/13/2021	Awesome teacher!! He really cares about his students and he will work with you through the homework and pre-class quizzes so that you can do well on them. The class isn't hard if you have some python knowledge, the only hard part imo is the pre-class quizzes. Also no midterm and no final!!
Massimo Ricotti ASTR415 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/07/2010	While I can't say Dr. Ricotti is a bad teacher, I can't say he's excellent either. As a person, he is excellent. Really, really nice and funny, and even brought us cookies and cake a couple of times. While his lectures are extremely dry, that may have been just because the material, computational astrophysics, can be pretty dull when you study the algorithms closely. He is an extremely fair grader, however. He is very willing to give extensions, and really tries very hard to give good grades. The homework was very difficult, but again, that was probably because the material is difficult. To summarize - if you are interested in the subject, take his class. Otherwise you may find lectures to be very boring.