pretty rough professor, however she has improved from the last two quarters. If you want an A, you are going to have to put in the work. She does care about students, and the opinion of students, she is very sweet. Dont be afraid to talk to her.

I feel like with this being Majedi's 3rd time teaching CS16 she's definitely has given us a better time when it comes to how she's approaching the class with us. If you go to her for help she genuinely will try to help you, now for the midterm I feel like if you spent time doing the zybooks and going to lecture then the midterm was Lowkey ez.

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.

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.

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.

Egregiously incompetent professor. The lectures were basic, of poor quality, and full of mistakes. She would change the grading policy on a whim, without any warning or explanation. Expect to teach yourself everything.

her original grading policy was that if u get below a 70 on the final, u automatically fail the class. this wasn't made clear until AFTER we took the final and had approximately half the class panicking while waiting for scores to release. 1/3rd of the class would've failed with it, so THANKS TO THE TA THAT FOUGHT FOR US

shes a nice person and has good intentions but.... she assigned wayy too much homework, lectures were boring/useless, and the tests were impossibly hard to the point where about a third of a class was going to fail by the end of the quarter (not to mention the syllabus and grading system was changed multiple times throughout the quarter)