Prof K is the best teacher I’ve ever had. After taking her class I decided to switch my major from GIS to education to follow in her footsteps and inspire young minds the way she inspired me. If you don’t take her class you are actively harming your education.

Not sure why all the low reviews on here. Maybe from students who are skipping class? Regardless Dr. K was one of the best professors I have had and would recommend the class to anyone looking to have a professor who truly cares

One of the best professors I've ever had! I couldn't have asked for anyone better to teach me the ropes. Not only is she very nice but she smells good too! I wouldn't have asked for any other professor even if I could.

Honestly, as long as you pay attention in class, and know the bare minimum about computers this class is pretty easy, but a big part of that is probably because of how good of a teacher prof K is. Anyone willing to put in any effort should be fine.

Prof K really knows her stuff and does an amazing job helping her students learn. Unfortunately a lot of the students in this class think they deserve an easy A just for showing up and giving the school their parents money and start crying when they’re expected to work for a grade.

Most teachers just talk at you, but by having you use the book for the majority of the work it really helps you absorb most of the needed info. Most of the bad reviews on here are left by entailed kids who coasted into college with their parents money, and now are shocked that a real professor expects the bare minimum from them. expect pop quizzes.

Genuinely the worst professor I have ever had at UCSB. She only gives you 15 minutes to figure out, write, and test multiple lines of code in quizzes. Her final project instructions are a mess, and references pieces of code that we have never written before, and if you ask a question on it after Friday, (it's due on Tuesday), 5% off your grade.

Worst teacher yet, she doesnt care about her students. This is not a beginner's course at all. Do not recommend with this teacher.

Be prepared to spend double time on this class after week 5. No sympathy for assigning work and then throwing you pop quizzes for material learned the day before. Final is a mess with unclear instructions and a 5% grade deduction for a question asked. TA's helped tremendously but lectures were all useless info with random participation link

This class is truly atrocious. Lab instructions are confusing and far above the level of what should be expected from newcomers to Python. Lectures are boring and mostly useless. Class is excessively time-consuming and infuriating. Avoid taking with this professor at all costs.

Most work I have ever done for a class. Insane amount of work due and it's not the type of work that can be done easily. Many Labs will have you spending hours on it not knowing what minor detail you're doing wrong. A class that's supposed to be for beginners is painfully hard without prior experience. Knowledgable prof but way too hard

Attendance is mandatory, but attending her classes is waste of time. The professor never cares about her students. I have no idea why she can be a professor at UCSB.

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