Laura Biester
This class was fairly easy, with weekly problem sets and a final group project at the end. As long as you listen to the lectures or look at the slides, tests aren't too much of a problem. The final project was also pretty chill, and you could essentially just combine code from different problem sets to quickly finish it.
Was going to be my interesting/fun 4th class. Ended up taking up more time than my other 3 classes combined. Very fast paced and difficult homework and exams. Biester is nice and helpful however it is very easy to fall behind and then you're kinda screwed and playing a constant game of catch up.
This course was a witch hunt for AI use. The homework was far too difficult and high stakes for an intro class. If you have absolutely no experience coding in any language-- DO NOT take this course. They transitioned to no-partial-credit written exams, which made this course very hard to do well in. So many people bombed the midterm that they had to implement an exchange program to gain points back by doing extra homework. This was nice, but it doubled my weekly workload. Biester was very nice, but it seemed like Andrews called all the shots, and he was not as forgiving (in grading or generally). So many people got flagged for AI use (sometimes wrongly), which is clearly a result of the homework problems being too hard. If you couldn't complete a homework problem, you got no credit and no chance to redo it, AND if you couldn't complete a few over the course of the semester, it was impossible to get an A (even if it was a result of only a minor coding error). Overall, this course is far too intense for an intro, and they need to figure out how they are handling AI usage. **This is not a reflection of Biester as an instructor- she was wonderful- it seems that there are bigger systemic problems within the course and the department.
This course was a witch hunt for AI use. The homework was far too difficult and high stakes for an intro class. If you have absolutely no experience coding in any language-- DO NOT take this course. They transitioned to no-partial-credit written exams, which made this course very hard to do well in. So many people bombed the midterm …Read more