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Zhicheng Liu CMSC734 Expecting an A Anonymous 02/05/2024	Zhicheng is the very essence of indolence and apathy. Spent an entire month giving "special topics lectures" as an excuse not to teach. His TA did all of the grading of the ridiculous, half-baked programming projects with the incredibly buggy D3 library. Aside from being entirely arbitrary in the grading, she was slow in doing so. Not much better than the actual prof. The final group project is a tremendous waste of time with extremely unclear objectives and arbitrary grading criteria. This isn't sour grapes either, I earned an A without really trying. But did I actually learn anything in the course? No, absolutely not. Zhicheng was poached from Adobe if my memory is correct; the University of Maryland would do well to send him right back.
Zhicheng Liu CMSC734 Expecting a B Anonymous 12/20/2023	The professor is very bad in grading.
Zhicheng Liu CMSC734 Expecting an A Anonymous 12/12/2022	A really nice and knowledgeable professor. I enjoyed this class and learned a lot about visualizations and the D3 library (will definitely try to use it in the future). The course was overall chill. The homeworks and assignments gave a good example all sorts of visualizations. Would recommend taking this class and would recommend this professor.

Zhicheng Liu
CMSC734

Expecting an A
Anonymous
02/05/2024

Zhicheng is the very essence of indolence and apathy. Spent an entire month giving "special topics lectures" as an excuse not to teach. His TA did all of the grading of the ridiculous, half-baked programming projects with the incredibly buggy D3 library. Aside from being entirely arbitrary in the grading, she was slow in doing so. Not much better than the actual prof. The final group project is a tremendous waste of time with extremely unclear objectives and arbitrary grading criteria. This isn't sour grapes either, I earned an A without really trying. But did I actually learn anything in the course? No, absolutely not. Zhicheng was poached from Adobe if my memory is correct; the University of Maryland would do well to send him right back.

Zhicheng Liu
CMSC734

Expecting a B
Anonymous
12/20/2023

The professor is very bad in grading.

Zhicheng Liu
CMSC734

Expecting an A
Anonymous
12/12/2022

A really nice and knowledgeable professor. I enjoyed this class and learned a lot about visualizations and the D3 library (will definitely try to use it in the future). The course was overall chill. The homeworks and assignments gave a good example all sorts of visualizations. Would recommend taking this class and would recommend this professor.

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