Reviews of professor Kate Jensen

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
She manages the worst version of 4041 you could take. Your grade is 75% exams which is unforgiving and the exams are very long. She doesn't post any resources online and really is all around not a helpful professor. Do your best to take it with anyone else.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I liked her lectures because she would write on the whiteboard and explain things step by step. HOWEVER, no notes were posted so you need a friend. Homework every 2-ish weeks (didn't grade too harshly). 5 ish weeks before the end of the sem, our class went online. TA's weren't very helpful for hw bc even they didn't get an answer key...

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The previous posts about her being a good professor are all propaganda. DONT TAKE HER! Take moen instead. Lectures arent recorded and the tests suck.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Kate gives amazing lectures, knowledgable, approachable, and very on top of things. The grade is 75% on exams(open notes) and 25% on assignments, grading scale curved so 60% is C-. Homeworks are challenging and midterms are fair-difficult. Course is content heavy, lots of textbook reading and note taking.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
I took my first level 4000 comsci class with this professor and although she definitely aspects you to take her class seriously, and do the assigned readings and problems, after having a mental health episode she went out of her way to accommodate me and made sure I could continue her course, something many professors would not do.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Bare minimum effort professor, late to class, only material is the textbook. Sad because algorithms is such an important class for computer science and this professor seems like they would rather do other things than teach the class and help their students succeed.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
The tests are insanely hard to finish on time, and they are worth a huge chunk of your grade. She does not post slides, or even have slides. Nothing is recorded, so everything is done on a whiteboard yet the handwriting is often times messy. The homeworks are intentionally very long and hard. Save your gpa, take this class with a better insturctor.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
There is ABSOLUTELY no reason to not either post slides or record lectures. We paid to take the class and shouldn't be restricted from the material if unable to attend in person. Simply reading the textbook is not a valid alternative. Tests were also very hard to finish on time (again, no reason to make it like this) and the homework was difficult.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
If you take her - all semester you are going to struggle with homework, reading, grading, searching for the information, and self-teaching. TA's never on a same page with professor, so do not even hope for a good score on that. Exams are long and concepts heavy, class average is 60, but good luck even get to that.