Reviews of professor Alicia Wood

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I LOVE PROF WOOD. Its a big class which can make things challenging but she it so good at answering questions and helping make sure we knew what was going on. Theres a lot of hw online but its totally manageable if you do the reading and go to class. She is honestly one of my favorite professors and I hope I can take more classes in the future.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Solid teacher. Just show up, and do the work, and you'll be fine.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
You can have a perfect code that works, yet still lose lots of points on you labs because of some ridiculous style guide nonsense. She doesn't really teach you anything, all the learning was online in the textbook. The practice code in class she does isn't useful for exams or main labs, she doesn't even get the code working by the time class ends.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Prof Wood was an incredible teacher. Enough so that I took the online section of the course and still showed up to her lectures. Very good at explaining concepts, and super accessible and wants to help her students. Definitely a great choice for CS142, be ready to work, but its a very manageable class with her.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If you wanna take this class in spring/summer with this professor, please choose another one with another professor. If you have no experiences at all with C++ or any object-oriented programming, DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS IN SPRING OR SUMMER. The main labs will stress the heck out of you and the tests are hard just like the main labs.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The tests are probably the worst I have ever taken. The entire class is based around a few products and there is very little learning about web development. This class should be renamed "How to use google Firebase and Vue while also suffering from anxiety"

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
All assignments either in online textbook or Canvas gradebook. Extra credit for turning in early. I took the class on my own over the summer, but I found it incredibly easy, both on my own and in the class. One of the easiest classes I've ever taken, including high school, but I've done Comp Sci before. Fine prof, neither amazing nor awful.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She doesn't work with you if you believe the TAs did not grade fairly. This is really problematic on a class that is so subjective. I also had an experience where the TA was really rude when I asked him a question. There are a lot of last minute class work that count towards your grade. So attendance is required. The lectures are not amazing.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Wood is a great teacher, but I feel like the class is structured very poorly. In my opinion, the midterms were not clear on the grading criteria, and while I understand that CS is a very technically oriented field, docking someone 40 points on an exam because of a specs that were very vague is still difficult to accept. First A- in 6 semesters.