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

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