Reviews of professor Michelle Dowling

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Professor Dowling's teaching methods and capabilities are indicative of why people think college is a scam. Her lectures are monotonous and verbatim from an open-source textbook. Her homework can best be described a busy-work and will not be beneficial to your understanding of CS, let alone your future career. Wait for someone else to teach this.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She is one of the worst professors I have ever taken. I have never worked so hard in a class to be graded so unfairly. Spent an insane amount of time on a group project along with a few other people. She is a nice person, but class time is wasted heavily. Avoid this professor if you can. If not, prepare for a semester full of pointless busy work.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
my experience was totally different compare to other reviewer. She is very care about class, and give really good lecture explaining class material. Also her test was quite easy compare to other section. Moreover, She is really nice professor , always ready to help student. Other reviewer clearly didnt try to study the material at all and blame her

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I had an amazing experience with her. I could not have asked for a more caring professor. She always helped me when I needed help.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She is a nice lady but does not know how to teach at all. She will tell you one thing is ok on a project and then later ding you for it. We spent hours on projects and still did poorly. Class time often felt like a waste and was not used well at all.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
I will not recommend this professor

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She basically tells you to figure it out if you ask her questions. If you have any problems at all good luck.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lecture slides and presentations are just paragraphs broken up by sentence into bullet points that are read word for word in lecture. Grading is really slow, and the project (35% of grade) is a 60+ page report. Course emphasizes importance of data then doesn't use any data to prove that the concepts shown actually do any of the things they claim.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Dowling was a terrible experience. Very harsh grading and no help whatsoever. She expects you to know the material without teaching it. Would not recommend taking her.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
I think Prof. Dowling gets a bad rap. She is pretty caring but there were definitely times when she would check off on a project and ding us points on it later. The lectures did seem like a waste of time as she just read off the screen but she was very approachable outside of class and seemed to care a lot. Not the best but not the worst.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I honestly want to give her credit for trying but in all honesty, her grading and class format was absurdly chunky. She is a very harsh grader but barely teaches application of the CIS principles we use. I did fairly well in the class but it was a pain in the neck to scrape through and involved a lot of outside of class research.