too difficult by far

(meant to rate 5 difficulty) $90 online textbook for coding and quizzes insanely hard. self study class with lots of homework and activites takes so many hours per week. doesnt teach and reads off slides. is so paranoid about cheating.

Does not care about her students. Unreasonable expectations for a beginner class.

Completely disconnected from the students and what we need to succeed. Her lectures are terribly paced and cover very little of what she said is necessary on the exam. Cannot get a good reply out of her outside of class, so I recommend to stay away and take her courses from another professor or from another school

There are terrible quizzes every week. Attendance is required even with replays.

Prof was usually in good spirits and tried to incorporate a pomodoro timer into lectures so students would get breaks. However grade was heavily influenced by broken pop quizzes which would often catch students on semantics or typos rather than ever checking for understanding.

This class completely drained me of my will to live. Teacher is insane for thinking these are even remotely beginner level projects. She spends more time every day in class threatening all of us with failing than teaching anything. Attendance is mandatory but she just reads off slides. Expect to be teaching yourself with the textbook every day.

Overall wasn't bad, just lots of work. As long as you stay on top of things, it is okay.

Terrible, just terrible.

Worst class ever! Way too difficult for a beginner, it will kill your interest in coding. She has a $90 interactive textbook teach you everything and overloads with timed quizzes and weekly homework assignments. Stay away!!!!!

worst class ive ever taken in my entire life..... save urself

Fake positive reviews. Class is unstructured and the material is way too advanced for a beginner class, especially with such an apathetic and distant professor. Don't fall for her scare tactics. Actually, just do yourself a favor and don't take this class at all.

she will make you feel like youre crazy. final project is so difficult for no reason. just dont do it. i wish i had listened to these reviews. please just dont do it.

Don't do it, trust me. I had a lust for life prior to this class. I was young and excited to learn some coding. All of that was sucked out of me.

oh my god dont do it please for the love of everything holy

so much work. worst class ever taken

The fake 5-star reviews with C- and D+ are extremely suspicious and seem like someone is trying to gerrymander the reviews. She will not teach you, she will essentially offload all the teaching to Zybooks and proceed to give the hardest coding assignments to introductory students. You will feel abandoned at sea for you to fend for yourself.

Just an FYI for all future students (especially ones who have anxiety like me). Don't let this "teacher" gaslight you. She will accuse the class of cheating at some point during the course. Unless you literally copy-paste code/actually cheat a ton, you're fine. Don't let her manipulate you. She damaged my mental health bc of this during the quarter

cannot understand what she talks about. basically learn everything myself after the lecture. useless class but require attendance.

Don't get me wrong she seems like a nice person but the structure of her class is so confusing and hard. Most of the learning you'll do is on your own in Zybooks (online interactive book that costs around $70) which is disappointing because I'm already paying tuition for her to teach me not a book. Quizzes are extremely hard and timed unfairly.

The online format of this class creates a huge disconnect between this prof and her students. She frequently disregards questions and collaboration is not encouraged, leaving many students feeling helpless. It's a very heavy workload without any assistance, and lectures feel useless considering the eventual difficulty of the material.

absolutely terrible, would not recommend. If I had to take another CS class I would wait to have it with different professor

I am not sure what she is teaching during lectures because most of the time she lectures on something specific for so long but forget to cover other things. Zybooks is a little overwhelming. Also, unorganized grading.

Way too much challenging work for an "Intro to CS." Uncaring, unsupportive professor (whose lectures are borderline useless). She really doesn't know what she's doing, and it all primarily stems from the course being all online. Material is understandable, thanks to the textbook, but it gets pretty challenging towards the end of the quarter.