Reviews of professor Vinaya Chakati

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 1.0/5
Would not take her again. First off this class is not her content, everything is reused from another professor. Second I've had grading issues on tests with her that have not yet been corrected or responded to over email. Third, the lectures are boring and less than 30% of the class attends cause there's no use.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The most hated instructor. Need I say more? I'm really not sure how someone can simultaneously not know anything and be pursuing their PhD.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Terrible professor. Material is from 4 years ago and prerecorded by another terrible professor, Banerjee. Nothing seems to make sense or is intuitive, and she doesn't care. The workload is insane as well. Every few days there is a new lab or "lecture activity" (which is literally just another stupid term for 'assignment'). Stay away.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
The class was not the worst I've ever had, but could be far better. Vinaya needs to work on her delivery. Reciting outdated slides that aren't yours does not engage students. I walked away with some iOS dev skills, but just more busywork than it was worth. Most students stopped showing up because Apple documentation was more useful for assignments

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lectures were pre-recorded from Andrea Richa's class. Chakati was difficult to understand when she tried to teach, I didn't interact with her much, but based on other reviews she doesn't seem like a good choice.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Seems like she doesn't care about teaching or students, and exams have many missing or weirdly-worded questions. While some of them are marked off the test, it's still annoying and stressful to have to play guessing games with the wording. Avoid if you can.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Definitely avoid this professor if you can. Will NOT round up a grade! Some students missed a B by less than half a percent! Although there's no official textbook, there's about 3 books barely mentioned that you basically have to read and comb through for information that might be on the exams. Slides and lectures will be of little help.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Just straight up bad. Nothing taught in this course was actually useful. The quality of the course itself is probably the worst I have taken at ASU, and Chakati and Banerjee are both terrible professors. Chakati's quality deeply concerns me and I really don't think she should teach any courses at ASU.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Lots of things wrong with this instructor. She does not do fair grading at all. Lots of complaints about her. Wherever she goes, that class will be doomed. Always gives wrong explanations to the students. She won't prepare for the class and very aggressive in answering student questions. I don't recommend her. BEWARE!!!

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Lectures were similar to listening to someone reading aloud Java documentation from Oracle's website, a complete overload of information. Majority of lectures are like this. But you should fair well if you took any Java class before this.