Reviews of professor Courtney Brown

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
On the first day, it felt as if she expected us to already know how to use every single programming language; she is like this for the whole semester. For people who need visuals to help them understand, this is a hard class. Learning keywords and is essential or you won't understand what she is saying. Doesn't show you your grade on canvas at all.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If you have no coding experience, beware. Dr. Brown doesnt explain the material well and expects you to pick things up quickly. She is condescending towards students and has poor communication skills. Also, she constantly walks by and looks at your laptop. A lot of students were annoyed by this.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Brown is a terrible teacher. She doesn't even teach. She posts video tutorials for students to watch. She justifies this by saying class time serves as lab time where students can ask her questions. Yet there is never enough time to ask questions given she makes us do things like sit in a circle in blue light until we all hum together for 30m.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I took one of her classes a few semesters ago, and I absolutely loved the class. I took her again, and I regret it. She didn't teach anything at all and expected students to know the material. The class was extremely unorganized; it was more like a free period where you were supposed to work on the class assignments. Take her at your own discretion

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Brown is a bad professor. She conducts a "flipped classroom" so all the lectures are pre-recorded. During class, we just sit there and watch them or do other stupid activities such as sitting in a circle and humming together. The only thing she taught me was how to copy code from her lectures. Also, she is a bit condescending toward students.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
For an intro class, Dr. Brown expects you to complete weekly projects and teaches as if you already have coding experience (I did not). That comment about learning to copy her code is accurate. She doesn't clearly explain the concepts in class and gets frustrated when no one understands. Makes you feel bad for asking for help/going to office hours

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The lectures were pretty dry, but she is very willing to help you outside of class. A background in java definitely helps. I took CS 1341 at the same time and found that they went over mostly the same things. The projects were time consuming sometimes, but overall the class wasn't that bad.