Reviews of professor Alexandra Zheng Harner

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
If the answer to a question isn't explicitly written out in the PowerPoint slides, Dr. Harner will almost always punt to the students. Furthermore, she all but totally abdicated her responsibility as a professor, and instead of actually teaching, assigns 80% of the topics to be covered in the class as "presentations" for 10% of the final grade.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Awesome teacher. She's very caring she taught me so much more than the first time I took the class, it actually made sense. She's down to earth and helpful I would recommend any opportunity to take her class you will learn and the class won't have to be the entire center of your life... So you can learn in others too.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
as other said its easy to get an B-A in her classes however you will learn nothing at all. also the homework she gives require lots of time to finish. do the homework, attend the lectures to do good on the quizzes, she also gives a good review before the final and the midterm so you can expect exactly what type of questions you are gonna see

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Dr Zheng is really a great professor. She's not like those stereotypical cs professors who can't speak English and make their class the most important part of your life. Dr Zheng is so up to date with the times, she's a reasonable grader, a true inspiration, and has a really healthy personality. I would absolutely recommend.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
For Computer Security, Dr. Harner simply used lecture notes which were taken directly from Dr. Avi Kak at Purdue University and used those as her lecture notes for this class. Nevermind that she didn't understand most of the material and couldn't explain it. Students did her job for her with presenting 80% of the material for 10% of our grades.