Reviews of professor Heidi Tessmer

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She is very strict with her grading on the homework assignments, so even minor errors can drop your score significantly. Her lectures were all PowerPoints and she didnt really explain how to actually code a program very well. Labs often took way longer than expected, and required work outside of class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Hands-down the worst professor I've ever had. She grades everything harshly and is merciless. She should be fired but the CS dept takes what they can get at this point. Nothing in CS252 makes any sense. She also thinks she's so funny, but she ain't. Do NOT take this class if you don't have to. If you do, good luck comrade.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Really good class, super helpful in lab and really passionate about you learning about C and Unix programming. I would definitely take her classes again in the future

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
It wasn't difficult once you realized you will have to learn most of it on your own. Does not know how to explain things in class. Asking her in office hours is nearly as bad. I recommend asking other professors for help.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Had her last semester for CS145 as my first coding experience. Thought her lectures structured well and gave the tools to do the homework, quizzes, and tests. Her grading criteria was super clear since she gave you exactly what the expected result was supposed to be. Always asked us questions in class for us to answer. Accessible by email easily.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She is the worst. Lectures confuse more than they help. The quizzes sometimes contains things she actually said would not be on there. The lectures do not cover everything you need. Four of us work together on homework. My partner and I turn in the same exact thing as the second partnership, but they got an A and we a B. How is that even possible??

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This professor was one of the best. She was very understanding and actually helped you when you had questions and would explain everything well, unlike other professors. Her lectures were not even that bad, I don't know why there are so many complaints on her. She's actually a great professor.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She's a good teacher who gave you the information that was needed in order to do the assignment. Coming from zero coding experience I thought her assignments were reasonable. As long as you put in the effort and start the assignment before the night it is due you will do just fine. The hardest part about this class was handwritten code on tests.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Didn't use the textbook for the class but the way she explains stuff without really explaining stuff makes a textbook necessary. The homework is impossible because she doesn't teach half the stuff we need to do it and when I asked her when are we going over this or that concept in class that we need on hw she says we have to learn it on our own.