Computer Science

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

Professor Linderman is one of the best professors in the CS department, so I'd recommend taking SoftDev with him. The class has 4 main programming assignments to be completed in the first half of the course and the second half will be implementing contents from those assignments into your group projects. There are also 10 practicals which are small programming assignments which will help with the project too. Resubmissions are allowed for everything so its a chill class.

Professor Linderman is one of the best professors in the CS department, so I'd recommend taking SoftDev with him. The class has 4 main programming assignments to be completed in the first half of the course and the second half will be implementing contents from those assignments into your group projects. There are also 10 practicals …Read more

Prof Kimmel uses a learning target style of grading. Instead of exams there are learning targets where you can pick and choose which targets to complete. Your grade is based off how much primary / secondary targets you have by the end ilofbtbe year. Great for retrying skills and earning full credit for them even after messing up on a previous assessment, but if missing 1 or 2 problems could change your grade a lot

Prof Kimmel uses a learning target style of grading. Instead of exams there are learning targets where you can pick and choose which targets to complete. Your grade is based off how much primary / secondary targets you have by the end ilofbtbe year. Great for retrying skills and earning full credit for them even after messing up on a …Read more