CMPSC 8
KHARITONOVA Y
Yekaterina Kate Kharitonova
2.5
161 reviews

162
2.5
CMPSCW8 . Kharitonova Y A Month Ago

Terrible. Do not take this class with her if you could help it.

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CMPSCW8 . Kharitonova Y 2 Months Ago

Absolutely terrible professor. Doesn't respond to emails at all. The amount of work is almost impossible and you'll be spending all your time on this class alone so hopefully your other classes are easy. It's also most likely she's using fake accounts with fake positive reviews to boost her score on here so beware.

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CMPSC8 . Kharitonova Y 2 Months Ago

Nice lady but there's so much homework for an intro class. Material is delivered way too fast and there's way too much work. Grading isn't really fair and not forgiving either. She's also really suspicious of cheating so be careful. Final proj took forever and was pretty pointless because it entailed a bunch of advanced features, you had to fill in

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CMPSCW8 . Kharitonova Y 5 Months Ago

Her lectures do not line up with the quizzes and labs. Expect to spend 5+ hours on labs a week trying to figure it out. The TA hardly spoke English and was unhelpful. She will accuse you of cheating. You will have to learn everything on your own. NOT a beginner class. She drained me of my will to live.

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CMPSCW8 . Kharitonova Y 5 Months Ago

Changed the course outline, having cumulative final instead of final project. Tough grader, will play word tricks and mark you down if you got one part incorrect. Unclear instructions and it's hard to understand what she is asking for. Strongly recommend to befriend your cs friends to understand concepts.

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CMPSCW8 . Kharitonova Y 8 Months Ago

too difficult by far

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CMPSC8 . Kharitonova Y 8 Months Ago

(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.

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CMPSC8 . Kharitonova Y 8 Months Ago

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

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CS8 . Kharitonova Y 9 Months Ago

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

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CMPSCW8 . Kharitonova Y 9 Months Ago

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

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CMPSCW8 . Kharitonova Y 10 Months Ago

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.

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CMPSCW8 . Kharitonova Y 11 Months Ago

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.

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CMPSC8 . Kharitonova Y 1 Year, 29 Days Ago

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

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CMPSCW8 . Kharitonova Y 1 Year, 1 Month Ago

Terrible, just terrible.

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CMPSCW8 . Kharitonova Y 1 Year, 1 Month Ago

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!!!!!

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CMPSCW8 . Kharitonova Y 1 Year, 1 Month Ago

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

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CMPSC8 . Kharitonova Y 1 Year, 2 Months Ago

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.

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CMPSCW8 . Kharitonova Y 1 Year, 2 Months Ago

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.

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CMPSCW8 . Kharitonova Y 1 Year, 2 Months Ago

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.

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CMPSCW8 . Kharitonova Y 1 Year, 2 Months Ago

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

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CMPSCW8 . Kharitonova Y 1 Year, 2 Months Ago

so much work. worst class ever taken

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CMPSC8 . Kharitonova Y 1 Year, 4 Months Ago

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.

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CMPSCW8 . Kharitonova Y 1 Year, 4 Months Ago

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

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CMPSCW8 . Kharitonova Y 1 Year, 4 Months Ago

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

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