I teach at Sheridan College in Canada. Here are some student reviews over the years – I hope this is not inappropriate – if you think so, please message me. I teach Interactive Coding in the Interactive Media post-grad program and also teach in Web Development, Web Programming, Interactive User Interface Design in Sheridan Computing courses.
If I had to spend 3 hours in a class room and 9 hours at Sheridan, I wouldn’t want it to be for any other class.
Dan Zen is the best University [UofT Gaming] teacher I’ve Ever had.
The course is the greatest!
Class is always fun, innovative and interactive
Best Professor [large underline]
Wonderful learning experience, wish he can teach more courses!
Great Prof.
Great professor who understands and is enthusiastic about the course / topic he teaches
Great Professor 🙂
Amazing class. Truly engaging and enthusiastic prof makes the process of learning code and game theory a blast and therefore very informative and a great learning experience was had. Prof used a great number of effective methods to describe complex concepts and codes and make them easy to understand and accessible. Fantastic experience [multiple underlines]
Professor Dan Zen is an excellent instructor and teaches with lots of passion and understanding. He is able to teach a lot of important details within a short time period. Great class and great Professor. Thanks.
Thank you Dan!!!!!!! You are really the best!!! Also I love ZIM, I will use it commercially if I have an opportunity to develop campaign for a client, whether I continue to work in PR or in coding or UX!
Great enthusiastic attitude in course material and communicating effectively to students.
On of the best classes I’ve ever had thus far. His energy and interest has kept me awake during class, something I wish all instructors had.
Great enthusiasm for Professor and good to work with.
Great prof!
He is an amazing prof. He teaches very well and knows how to explain. Very understanding.
Great Prof!
Great prof and course!
Very enthusiastic about the material; explaining coding in an easy to understand way
Great teacher. Keep up the good work
Best class I’ve ever had! Prof Dan Zen has very high enthusiasm and makes going to class very enjoyable!
Best course I have ever taken at Sheridan. 🙂
Great and unique course, recommend to all – applied learning through out – class experiences were great [underline]
I like this class very much. It is fun and enjoyable and at the same time you learn a lot of new things.
The prof is proud of what he does and teaches a great course. Very fun class to be a part of.
Very enthusiastic professor! Looking forward to your classes next year!
Dan Zen is a great prof who shows a lot of enthusiasm while teaching. Good Job!
Dan Zen is extremely enthusiastic and a great professor. Easy to talk to. By far one of my favourite professors
Excellent teacher, the only on I’ve met so far who encourages class participation and interaction with other students. Explains the lessons very clearly with lots of hands on activities and exercises to ensure comprehension. Very enthusiastic.
Prof. Zen is a very enthusiastic and knowledgeable teacher who makes learning experience very enjoyable. This is arguably my favourite course in comparison to all others taken as a UofT student. I look forward to coming to class every week and hope to enroll in other courses taught by him.
I enjoy how he teaches. He should teach a workshop for professors. He makes the class enjoyable – thank you.
The course was very well taught with lots of enthusiasm and always in a good mood.
I think Dan Zen expresses great interest in teaching and he is very well informed and full of ideas.
You are awesome!! =)
Professor Dan Zen is just so much fun to learn from because he brings his enthusiasm to class and is passionate about games. Best professor I have had in my University time span.
Great enthusiasm, wide knowledge, coding expert, extremely helpful. Great teacher.
Very eccentric and enthusiastic
Very good prof, Dan Zen. Very descriptive and explains things well. Highly recommend for future reference.
Great professor. Provides a unique learning experience combining many effective teaching techniques.
Professor has been very supportive in helping me learn coding and I have found this course very valuable.
He is very enthusiastic about his work and gets students just as enthusiastic about the course work. He is also very helpful and understanding.
Shows very high enthusiasm in the classroom and attends to every question raised by each student. Makes learning a lot of fun and uses many examples to relate to the concepts to make it easier.
Very fun class!
-> Great professor -> very fun and interesting class
I never thought a teacher could actually make me be more interested in programming. Congratulations Dan!
Awesome classes conducted in active interesting way. Having fun while learning makes the knowledge gained stay in mind much better and longer. Awesome semester! Thank you!
Dan Zen has done amazing things in the past and speaks from a breadth of experience. He makes time for every student and is fantastic at catering to individual needs.
You are so relatable and it creates a great environment in the classroom and amongst the students. You appropriately integrate fun and humor to make the lessons engaging and enjoyable.
Dan is really knowledgeable and is a great resource for learning coding. He is great at teaching to all skill levels in the class. The material is quite intimidating but Dan keeps it interesting and engaging. My interest and desire to master programming keeps growing as the term progresses.
Interactive Coding is a great course and I am so surprised at how much I already know how to do with it. Dan Zen is a great instructor and he is very enthused about the topic, even at 9 in the morning.
Dan Zen is a great instructor. He is truly unique and has a way of explaining material in an engaging way. Even though my strong suit isn’t coding, I know since I have started I have learned a lot and Dan opened my eyes to the beauty world of coding. Another great thing about Dan is that he does not only teach us how to code but rather to think creatively and challenge the status quo of society. He makes us think and explore ourselves and find what we are passionate about and express that idea in a unique way.
Dan Zen is an absolute pleasure. He is very passionate about his work, technology and very happy to share with us his passion and zest. He is very dynamic, keeps the classes going with interesting stories of his rich past experiences and it always pertains to the subject and lesson in hand. I am very very happy to have met Dan as he reminds me of myself where the zaniness, wackiness, creativeness is always welcome in an environment that fosters creativity, advancements in new technology and overall brotherhood and sisterhood within the classroom and outside. Thanks Dan!
I have never met a professor that instills so much inspiration and learning encouragement as Dan. My main reason to join the program wasn’t to learn, it was to be taught and inspired by him. With such a complicated curriculum as programming interactive media, Dan is able to amazingly make everything clear. Whatever was not clear to me, Dan brought comfort in telling us that it will come in time. And it did. It really is all about the teacher. I am sure I would have given up on coding if it wasn’t for the dedication, professionalism, and pedagogical understanding that Dan possesses. What a teacher. I will truly miss him when the program ends. Dan has given me the logical tools and creative inspiration I need to delve deeper into programming, and for that I thank him so very much.
Professor Dan Zen does an exceptional work within this course. Throughout the learning process which is taught really well, students feel comfortable with the methodology and the teacher. The teacher really engages himself and concerns if all the students are learning. Which is really a plus. Awesome work!
This is my favorite course. The assignments allow a lot of freedom to design what we want to create, making us very proud of what we produce. Dan gives us enough tools to play with, and let our imaginations go wild. The assignments are also catered to various skill levels, so everyone is learning at their pace. Everyone is given the option to explore and challenge themselves if they wish. Interactive Coding is great!!!!
Interactive Coding has been an exciting class and one of my favorite classes.
It has been amazing to delve inside the mind of Dan and analyze his creations (feather series). Having Dan actually explain the steps he took to create a certain Class or application was thoroughly helpful. Even though I found this class a bit outside of my scope of understanding, I did learn the holistic approach to Multimedia Pioneering.
For an intro class, I think the assignments were very appropriate, in terms of learning multimedia pioneering. Assignments helped me understand it better. The prof was always very approachable and was available for help. Great enthusiasm for technology and for this course subject.
I am very proud and honored to be in the presence of Dan Zen and absolutely love the way he thinks and delivers the material. He introduces us to ideas that one may not necessarily explore and also touches on ideas and notions that I wouldn’t think that others would understand, yet I have experience with. A progressive, futuristic, outside of the box thinker. I really enjoy him and his deep thoughts. Thank you very very much Dan. So much fun and laughter. I look forward all the time to the end of the week. He brings laughter and joy to the class and it makes me feel good especially since the material is quite heavy. Absolutely love it! 🙂
I love this course. Mainly because I find it the philosophical counterpart to programming. Since programming is about creative an environment with artificial intelligent, this course fits great in the curriculum. Dan teaches us about the future and how this technology affects us and even though some of the talks and experiments we create maybe not applicable who knows in the future. I mean, most people did not believe when Bell created the telephone it would substitute the telegram. In conclusion, I love Dan’s vision and the way he shares it with us.
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