Reviews of professor Kortni Neal

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
"Teaches" (not clear; very complicated) brand new coding thing, gives you 20min (till end of class) to write a program revolving around the thing. Went to office hrs for a problem I'd been struggling hr.s with - she tells me to google it. She assumes you already know stuff about coding. WORST teacher of my life. Had panic attacks in her class.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Group project is pretty integral to the course, the material isn't too difficult and its presented clearly enough but lecture is always a tad dry.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The project is pretty tough, START EARLY. Study the lecture slides and GO TO CLASS. Basically anything gone over will be on canvas. Tests aren't as bad, but you won't really know your grade until around finals. Genuinely, after the middle of November, this class goes 0 to 100 quickly. You will need to ask questions. Nice&available outside class too

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Methods and Tools is an odd class, covering numerous different topics. While it at times may seem obvious or unimportant, the culmination of topics is important for the future success of CS and SE majors. Group work is a requirement, don't cop out and do your part, and you will be fine in the class.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
"I will try to have grades in by Nov 30th", said about half our semester's assignments. This class will go from 0 to 100 in one day. The lectures are very boring, the content isn't but it just plain slides being recited word for word with a story every now and then. It is the "catch-all" class that STILL misses the only material we actually need.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She was nice. I didn't any problems with her, just the material itself. C++ is already a new concept to understand, but i feel like she explains the language very well.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
TA's graded the labs which is no good. I got like 10 points off once for using "x" as variable and not being specific enough. She also doesnt teach what you need to know for labs very well. Anyway, quizzes are kinda tough but she dropped our lowest two. But tests you really need to do well on since they are a massive chunk of the total grade.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She was nice but her class was the definition of a headache. The lectures and homework rarely covered what we were doing in the labs, and those were difficult too. All of her tests were awful, the slides did not match with any of the questions. Grades were never updated in a timely manner. Not the class for people with no prior coding experience.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Ms. Neal showed a lack of effort in teaching Methods and Tools this semester. The content was never fully explained, showed no visuals, and was presented in the dullest way possible. She doesn't seem to like her job, and it shows. I would not take this teacher if I didn't have to. This is a running theme in CSE at MSU.