Reviews of professor Debarati Basu

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Busy work every week Zybooks every week Coding activities - only thing worth to learn Some quizzes for a textbook you never use nor helpful compared to zybooks every week Tests which are basically coding activities but timed Semester long project Lectures are pointless Forced study groups with participation worth 5% of final grade

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
LOL she's a meme- so is this class. Honestly the WORST teacher you can have. Same can be said as an advisor. 10/10 should not be in education. How she got here... I will never know. AVOID at all costs. No joke. She is oblivious to the amount of work you will have for other classes and gives you so much work...

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Caring, understanding, and respectful teacher. The TA's are excellent and help you during labs and answer questions you may have. Assignments are pretty organized and in modules. She offers extra credit during most of the labs and even at the end of the semester you can turn them in which is great!

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Dr. Basu is a great professor IMO. There were a few things that could change - book, repetitive homework, unclear instructions. The reason I liked it is because she and the TAs were always helpful when I reached out to them. They respond better to email and office visits. It was easy to keep up in my class.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Everything you don't want in a professor. Don't expect to learn it if you have no knowledge of Java, she won't teach you. Definitely NOT an intro class. She gives you pointless homework assignments/small coding assignments. Four HARD coding projects. I didn't even grasp Java till I took Intro CS II because she explained the material poorly.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Basu is a very nice person and a good teacher. If you have any prior programming experience I would all-out recommend to take her, as she provides very helpful tools for people that looking for refresher class. But, if you have no experience, I would honestly look elsewhere because Basu teaches flipped classroom style and it requires to self-learn

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She will work with you if you are having problems. The class is very straightforward and easy to follow. She really cares.