Spitzner is absolutely terrible. He is a terrible lecturer and can teach you nothing. There is no point in going to class, just read the textbook because all Spitzner does in class is read off of slides he made from definitions in the textbook. He also purposely writes questions that try to trick you on tests and most fail. Take this with ANYONE else.

Terrible

Spitzner is hands down one of the worst professors at UVa. Not only is he hated by the majority of his students, but he writes his exams in a way that doesn't allow you to use a calculator. Essentially if you want to do well in this class, you have to teach all of the material to yourself and attend all of the help labs.

This class was pretty bad. Spitzner is a very boring lecturer and doesn't really care how well he presents the information. The lectures became pretty much worthless. The class starts off with very basic things that are extremely easy but then it quickly gets harder and harder. The labs were written to take more than the lab period to be prepared to work on them on your own time. They also got very difficult. The homeworks aren't too bad but it is on WebWork which is a terrible program where the answers are calculated using excel. The issue here is you should use your calculator for the homework because you dont get excel on the exam. The exams are not too bad as they generally resemble the practice exams he gives you before the exams. My class had a 75% average on the first exam and a 65% average of the second exam. He will curve the exams individually if the score are bad enough. For our class he deemed at 65% bad enough to curve however he is waiting till the end of the course to see if he actually needs to. In the end, the curve will be to a B like most classes that curve at UVA.

The class is 2 midterms, 1 final exam, lab assignments that meet twice a week, and homework that is due weekly.

If you can take this class with another professor, do it. If you have take Spitzner, Good luck and enjoy his soundcloud.

http://m.soundcloud.com/dreem-deceever

I like the ass song the most.

Spitzner is a horrible professor and his lectures are the most boring I've ever attended at this school. However, his exams aren't too hard and are very similar to the practice exams that he gives out beforehand. Don't worry much about using excel because none of it matters for the test.