Laura Biester

5.9/10

Effective

6.8/10

Fun

6.3/10

Helpful

54%

Enjoy

58%

Again

CSCI02015 days ago

The Professor was very clear in lectures and wanted you to succeed. The exams were written very well to evaluate your understanding without trying to trick you or be totally unmanageable. There is a homework assignment and a lab a week which are directly related to lecture.

Fair Grading

4hrs / week Average difficulty High value Would take again

CSCI01455 days ago

This course sucked. Laura was would teach the most trivial boring material in class and then give us a much harder homework. Furthermore, the work load was just not possible to manage, homeworks, projects, tests and quizzes. The worst part was that gradescope graded the assignments. So, if you found a solution that still worked and completed the assignment, but it wasn't in the way that the profs envisoned it when they made the gradescope, it would be marked wrong still and you would have to redo it. I was super excited going into the course and ended up pass failing and totally checking out. I left with not much respect for the way the CS department is run.

Slow-PacedProject-HeavyFair Grading

20hrs / week Impossible difficulty Very low value Would not take again

CSCI02013 months ago

A foundation course for CS major. Overall everything is good for someone who already has some coding experience. The lecture could sometimes be a little bit confusing but since this is a fundamental course resources are plentiful online, so I can always figure things out. All class materials are provided on a website, which make things a lot easier for exam and homework. Exams are at average level of difficulty.

Fair GradingEasy Exams

5hrs / week Average difficulty High value Would take again