Reviews of professor Nina Bhatti

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Really bad professor.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The assignments didn't truly prepared us for the tests. The tests included questions that we had been over somewhat in lecture but we had no real experience working with the topics which are 2 very different things.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Bhatti is a really tough grader, and the grading on her tests/assignments is very subjective. That said, she's extremely knowledgeable about the tech industry and has very, VERY high expectations of her students. She treats them as if they're applying to a tech job. Take this class if you want to learn more than just CS. If you want an A, skip it.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
This was my favorite class at Santa Cruz. Very tough grading on the assignments, the TA's this quarter definitely try hard to fail you. However her lectures are really good. Bhatti explains memory allocation like nobody's business. I would recommend this class to anyone that is a computer science major and wants a challenge.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Her lectures are nice but there's a huge disconnect between what she teaches and what her assignments and tests are on. There's no study guides so you don't know what's going to be coming. Her programming assignments have no rubric; she only tells you what she's looking for after you turn in the assignments. She grades harshly on it on top of that.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
CS12B was hard. The only way to make it easy on yourself is to go to section and ask questions. Prof. Bhatti's lectures were not inspirational but I suppose neither is the topic... Programming assignments are quite hard compared to lecture content.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Extremely strict grading, boring lectures, no correlation between lectures and assignments/labs. One line of code on a test is the difference between a 100 and a 60 percent.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Study and pay attention in lectures and you can do well.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Her exams are pretty bad.