Reviews of professor Anna Zaitsev

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Great professor. Tests are easy but do a good job of testing your understanding of major concepts. Assignments can be difficult, but it is easy to get help during lab. Lectures are very interesting and clear. I'm not a CSE major and don't have any sort of CSE background and was fine in this class.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Her lectures are very oriented around real-world connections. She spends a lot of her lecture going over a topic and how we see it in our lives, but she also makes sure to get into the nitty-gritty as well. She doesn't like prolonging her lectures longer than necessary, which is nice.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Absolutely adorable, she really loves what she's teaching and is super sweet and kind. Obviously cares for her students.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
She only gives us one C PA through the entire quarter at the end, which leaves us unprepared for CSE30 when we're assumed familiar with C and given lots of hard PAs in C. Her lectures are also short and useless, like she doesn't have anything to say so decides not to say anything. Having left her class, I feel like I now know no more than before

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
CSE 12 was significantly easier at least for me, not really sure why, and Professor Zaitsev did a great job explaining many of the difficult concepts in my opinion. I have managed to get 90+ on every single PA so far and ace the midterm without really needing extra help or anything, though the 8 A.M. class time is not ideal. Overall recommend.