The instructions that she gives us for labs, projects, whatever are always unclear and leave things out, which will ruin your code. When you bring up these issues, the response is always late, so throw working ahead out of the window. Usually gives us pieces of code to use in our own program and sometimes it's wrong. Self-teaching class

Worst class I have ever taken. I understood everything in class and textbook and still got a 28% on the pop quizzes. Prof DOES NOT TEACH!!! Her TAs are so helpful, but she expects that if you are struggling you are available at every hour for office hours. Lives and Russia and doesnt use email doesnt answer questions either.

Basically no teaching. Always give instructions last second even for the final. Everyone suffers so much. The self-study website does not prepare us for the quizzes or final at all.

The profeesor does not really teach!!!!

Prof K does not know how to teach. You study by your own, on a website called Zybook. Her final project, was a totally disaster. She released the prompt a week before deadline, but only a half-assed one. She continued to post update until the very last morning. If you do in advanced, you got to change everything. If you do late, not gonna finish!

Whoever said theyd never felt depression til this class was right. Prof K as a person, fine Im sure. But as a prof? Absolutely not. Class is essentially self teach and every lecture is just a mini review followed by a quiz. Final project was a mess, instructions were being updated constantly through dead week, even up until the day it was due.

Quizzes every lecture. Final was extremely hard and I submitted without even finishing because the course material didn't prepare us for it at all. Prof gave no lenience when large number of students complained. Asking for help results in deduction of grade. Lectures weren't helpful. Basically teach yourself everything, Prof wasn't helpful.

This class was extremely unfriendly to people who have no coding experience. Insane amount of homework, and I would go to all TA office hours and end up waiting for hours to even get help. The final project was ridiculously hard and beyond the scope of the class. Prof K basically said "don't contact me or I'm taking points off your grade".

She teach literally nothing in class, u gotta learn 100% by yourself with a 70$ textbook and do tons of hw every week. She has no plan for the class. she wrote in syllabus that she will drop the lowest 2 quiz but she DIDN'T. Procrastinatio on the release of final project. A student advised to make the add-on final instructions and get threatene

Weekly quizzes on Gauchospace can have pretty unclear instructions and be at times superficial. CS8 is nothing special if you already know python, but the unclear instructions are frustrating. This is especially prevalent in the final project too. If you don't know Python, you'll mainly be learning from Zybooks. Lectures didn't seem like they help

She released instructions for the first half of the final project a week before it was due, and after I completed the first half of the instructions, she releases new instructions that make pretty much everything I have done useless and I have to go back and rewrite everything now.

She barely puts effort into teaching because has to self-teach through an online textbook. What a miracle! when kids can barely self-motivate to study for in-person, actual interactive courses. I would ask for help through the forum for a meeting and was ignored! <3 Final project is extremely tedious and practically impossible esp if ur new to code

literally does nothing, she assigns 2 quizzes tons of homework a week. you self study with a $70 interactive online textbook. labs get exponentially harder. the final project is very specific and extremely tedious. quizzes are graded with an autograder which is not generous whatsoever. extremely disorganized list of grades

Grading not clear at all, very disorganized. When you ask her for help she kind of just ignores you. You get penalized for asking help on a final project that is blown out of proportion and way above the skill range of a coding newbie. Terrible, puts on a nice personality but she really doesnt care about the well being of her students with thework

Hilarious schedule, she messes up the whole class. TA have done most of the work for her. She feels sick at the time the final project is supposed to be released, but she ends up procrastinating and not telling us. She guaranteed a lowest quiz grade drop but my drop ends up being a practice quiz grade. Don't ever take her class.

Do not take this class. She teaches nothing and asks us to learn from an interactive textbook. The quizzes are all over the place. The final project is insane and asking any project related question is a 5% deduction of your grade. She posts final project late and does not tell us, and she completely has no idea how messed up her schedule is.

She is a LEGEND! I face the computer screen feeling the malice from Milky Way and questioning my life choices every lecture/quiz.

I've never truly experienced depression until I took this class. This whole class is self taught through an interactive textbook. For an introductory course, this is no where near the beginner level. While all other classes are in-person, this joke of a class is fully online. Asking for help via Zoom is extremely difficult and embarrassing.

Paying thousands of dollars for tuition and still having to spend $70+ dollars for an online textbook for an online class is totally unacceptable. The majority of the class is self taught through the online textbook. Practice quizzes are super easy, but when it comes to the actual quiz, it is completely different and significantly harder.

She was responsive and kind when I thought I wasn't being graded fairly on the final project and she even changed my grade. You teach yourself in the class, she is there to help you if needed. It's a good class if you like learning independently.

This is literally the worst course I have ever taken at UCSB. Prof. K just let us learn by ourselves through an online system, and she doesn't give lectures. So unfriendly to the coding newbies. She basically just does nothing. She does not deserve the salary provided by our tuition.

DON'T CHOOSE THIS GUY!!!! SHE TEACHERS NOTHING!!!! (There are no lectures or notes given) 100% SELF-STUDY!!!! (With a paid interactive textbook online -- boring content + practice) EVEN TAS ARE BETTER THAN HER!!!! THE WORST THING IS: YOU'LL TAKE A EXTREMELY DIFFICULT FINAL PROJECT!!!! GIVEN YOU LEARN EVERYTHING YOURSELF, YOU'LL CRY IN THE FINAL!!!!

I had never written a line of code in my life and I came out of this class feeling like I was actually ready to write some real python. Since the course is mostly just teaching syntax until the end it also wasn't too difficult. Last week or so got a little confusing but besides that it was pretty straight forward and zybooks was only a bit of work

I learned everything from the online testbook Zybook. She only posts roughly four lecture videos for the whole quarter! If you don't like self-study, avoid her. Also, we have a lot of labs :(