Took this course last quarter. Not an easy course tbh especially for the beginners, but totally doable if you put tons of efforts in. Attendance is not mandatory, but you basically can get a curve if you attend most of her lectures. She is a very caring and sweet professor if you been to her office hour, and a very sweet person to talk with.

Don't take her class.

Only bad thing I would have to say is lectures were hard to follow. HW I thought was good at making you understand the concepts, but it is graded harshly so keep that in mind. OH were super helpful and if you want to boost your grade always cover the hws in OH. Tests are really easy if you know the material.

Very poor lectures that are full of mistakes and inconsistencies. She doesn't seem to understand the material well and it shows. Does not prepare you well and you will learn very little during lectures, even though most of the hw, slides, handouts are all taken from UCSD's CSE 20. The difficulty of the final was fair but expect to self study.

I went into this class with minimal prior programming experience and achieved an A, it is possible. 65% of your grade is the midterm and final. These are handwritten, timed, stressful exams. The key to performing well is to start practicing handwritten code weeks before the exam, specifically redoing the practice tests she administers in class.

Homework was biweekly zyBooks (which cost $64) & weekly packets (last 3 were very long, & TAs' grading could be a bit nitpicky). Majedi gave handouts to annotate for each lecture (we could bring 3 to the final). No midterm, just biweekly open-note online quizzes. Final was very manageable time/content-wise, as she asked TAs & students for feedback.

While the course itself was really hard, it is still very doable if you keep up with the material. Majedi isn't the best lecturer and the structure of the sections could be better, but she was kind enough to curve the class in the end by 2 letter grades which really saved my grade.

Lectures are confusing, disorganized, and sleep-inducing. I learned more from the 50 minute section than I learned in 2.5 weekly hours of lecture. Get ready to teach yourself most of the content because she won't. I will say her TAs are pretty good so definitely take advantage of that. But don't expect much from Majedi herself.

Do not take her if you can. She does not teach anything, and it feels like she doesn't even know what she's teaching half the time. She makes typos when lecturing and can't comprehend why the code doesn't run. The grading system is horrendous. Supposed to be intro class but she teaches it like we experts. Need to know more CS than her to get an A.

Her lectures are not well prepared you are looking at hard quizzes every single class on topics that you she only talked very briefly about(10min). Homework and lectures are not in sync. Very hard exams, time pressing and no curve. Relying her TA and ula to set up the course entirely also shows her incompetence.

Worst comp sci professor Ive had yet. Boring lectures that don't relate to homework and seemingly tries to make the class harder than it needs to be. avoid at all costs

not good no no no no no

final exam was tooooooo hard and unreasonable grading policy (which she changed at the end) Nice person tho

You cannot learn anything from her lecture, and you will need to learn everything on your own. She would be the worest professor you may every have during your college life.

Definitely the worst professor I have ever had. Lectures are not helpful at all, so you almost need to learn all things from zyBooks, which costs you around 80 dollars to purchase. If you have some basic knowledge of CS, it will be easier to learn. If not, it's going to be a very torturous quarter.

trust me dont. wait the extra quarter or 2 (only if your EE this class is not a prereq to any other class) Otherwise good luck dude. zybooks labs and lecture teaches but she expects you to be the goat at c++. 9 question midterm 60 min (time crunch) (hand write code) (seating chart). (burk is prob better) midterm 30% final 35% (final idk not yet)

Professor Majedi doesn't always understand the level that the students are at compared to her teaching. Also, what she teaches in class is completely seperate from the lengthy homework. It is not necessarily a con but beware of that when entering this course

Run, run, run.

exactly what other ppl said

One of the worst professors at UCSB. Lectures are bad because of mistakes and questions. Exams are extremely hard while times are tight. She expects you to learn everything yourself.

She changed her grading scale (otherwise 1/3 of the class would fail) because of a TA arguing for us. if you cannot score high on her tests (which covers content she never goes over or only mentions very briefly during lectures and is not on her slides/content/textbook), she blames it on you. she calls you lazy and that you don't work hard enough.

Madeji's teaching is okay but doesn't cover enough much material and often has mistakes. She frequently runs out of time during lectures and confuses students. Test questions are somewhat difficult, but time is extremely tight and most students do not finish. There are no curves and she is definitely one of the hardest professors in the department.

Her lectures are boring and she doesn't seem to understand the material herself. Her research is about data ethics, not sure if she ever goes lower level than SQL. Tests are evil and she doesn't curve or provide any leniency towards late hw. You can be a CS god and Majedi will still find some way to ensure you don't get an A.

Extremely incompetent lecturer. Both the midterm and the final were ridiculously hard relative to the very surface level lectures and homework. Her original grading policy had u fail the class if you get under an 70 on the final. Lost ab 98 hair follicles and 2 years off my lifespan waiting for final exam grade. Save yourself.