Reviews of professor Donna French

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I went into this class for the rubber-stamp. The way that she teaches really just encourages memorization of material, not actually learning it. If you wish to receive a good grade for meticulously reading the instructions she gives take this class, if you want an intro to programming find a ten minute video on youtube.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I was excited to take her, because of the good reviews. She went slow in the beginning then started going fast heading into spring break. Stopped responding to my messages and was very rude and condescending towards the end. The atmosphere felt like she was more worried about preventing cheating vs actually helping students learn the material.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Take notes, follow what she says in the slides, and don't cheat, slides basically give u the answers to the quizzes and homework. She responds quickly to emails. Attendance isn't mandatory cuz she's always on teams, but you might want to be in class in case of an in-class quiz.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She thinks it's only her class that matters. You'll be drained by assignments. She will give you a coding assignment so hard, it will take all your time. And even after all those works, if u get even one bug, you'll get 0. she is very picky. she wants u to solve coding assignment just the way she likes. I had the worst experience. Be careful!.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She was a very rigid professor, I was working full-time while taking the class, I wasn't used to the websites and used in the class, registered in the class late, and I needed assistance and clarification. She kept repeating herself and I had to find the answers myself, found the answers too late so I had to withdraw.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Has a terrible attitude. She is condescending with students and often belittled them for asking questions. VERY quiz heavy, gives pop quizzes if class is empty, and gives an automatic 0 if your code has any compile issues. OLQs make up 60% of your grade, but her grading style, attitude, and pettiness make the class difficult.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
I think her rates are good because her class is easy to pass. Didn't really take much away from this class. Boring lectures but good info in them. Quizzes are 60% of grade and easy. Coding assignments are graded hard and key points of the assignment are not taught well. Belittled entire class a few times and told us to think about changing majors.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
If you want to memorize test questions, take this class. If you want to get good at coding, take someone else. Coding assignments are a tiny part of your grade, and little to no feedback is given. Weekly quizzes (vast majority of grade) mostly cover general CS concepts learned in other classes. You can do well without writing a single line of code.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The best CSE prof out there!