Time consuming HW, easy tests, funny accent; easiest A for me this semester

She can be very helpful and she's an easy grader.

Always willing to help. Alot of work though. Overall very friendly!

Nice person when you get to know her. Fair grader, she knows her stuff!!!!!

VERY GOOD! You need to learn the way she talks but once that is covered she pretty easy and you learn alot.

A french touch in computer science, interesting result!

very fair grader if she knows you want to learn she will try her best to help you not for the lazy student

Not as bad as people think. Fair grader and knows the material (unlike most other CS profs). Has a bad attitude sometimes, though.

Rude to those who play with their phones all class and then ask questions about what something we just went over. She is a good teacher, it is the students who are the problem.

Knows the material, and is very helpful. Pay attention and not goof off and you'll do fine. If your rude or disrespectful then you will get your in turn.

very nice and fair Do not understand the bad rap Go to class, do your homework and do not ask stupid questions or try and make her look bad

Great teacher. Very nice when you get to know her.

Very nice, clear, and patient. Only gets agitated when students waste time. The class is tough, a lot of work. She does her best. Tests are all on what she goes over. She will answer any legitimate, unless she has gone over it many times before.

Very interesting course, she is a master of Java. I never found something she can't answer. I assume she had good teachers too.

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Those who say they can't understand what she says are not making the effort. She is straight forward with assingments and tests. Also answers every question you ask her through e-mail as clear as possible. It's not a lot of work if you can keep up. Take her if you're responsible and interested.

The class is tough. There are two projects but she gives only about a week to do each one (one needs the other to work). She will help you if you ask nicely, and really need help. If you missed classes and didn't listen, she will not go over the material again.

She's very knowledgable. She knows her material and is a fair grader. The problem is that the students at Pace do not want to be challenged! I see it all the time. I can't wait to graduate and go to a school with students that don't just want to get A's as gifts, but actually work for them.

This class is a lot of work. She has a french accent. Hard to understand in the beginning, but after you get used to her accent after the first 2weeks, she's a good professor. Although she teaches from powerpoint, it makes our job easier, study the powerpoints and you'll do well.

Mobile soft. eng. course. Professor really did a great job preparing the syllabus for this unique course. The course consisted of j2me programming project with scrum (teams of two or three), research project, 9 labs, and final(very easy). All this in 6 weeks. Used good sdlc practices svn, java.net eclipse etc. Great class, highly recommended.

She has a french accent, but once you get used to it, she is very understandable and is expert and delivering the course materials. She's one of my favorites.

Learned a ton about Agile/Scrum from the audits. Told us exactly what was going to be on the final and all the info is in the slides. Auditing was a lot of work but wasn't really that difficult. Individual assignments were easy. She's not as hard to understand as others portray. CIS 101 students are the scorn of Pace so be weary of those reviews.

Nice lady but a harsh grader. You can tell she is defensive about being a woman which is just silly because most people can tell that she knows her stuff. Study, participate, show up for class and you will get a good grade. Also learn how to program already. So many people can't even handle the little coding that was done in this class.

She is very well-educated. She knows what she's teaching. She makes you work for the grades but it is worth it!

She assigns regular homework and allows for corrections. She wants you to learn through practice and understand what the problem was rather than just shaft you with a bad grade. She also tries to integrate several different types of programming languages into the work to show how certain CS concepts are consistent across languages.

it is a fundamental and theoretical course which will help you to get a profound and expanded view of programming in general. her class is very intensive and the homework and tests are challenging. worth to put yourself in it, and of course she values hard working. not for fainted heart.

easy professor, she always replies promptly your questions. Group project is easy. Great professor!!!

Christelle Scharff is not an easy professor. I took her course during summer and it was very intense. Though, all the material taught in the video lectures and power point slides was on her exams. She also gave the midterm review questions and they were similar to the questions on her midterm. Overall, I had good experience.

she is tough but she knows the subject really well. If you study you get an A and you will understand everything

I build a strong DBMS foundation with Proff. course. I gained deep knowledge from concise, clear material (PPTs, videos). Assignments were challenging, requiring lecture mastery. Self-study is key. I plan to take more courses with this professor. Regret: summer session too short for this comprehensive course; a full semester aids consolidation

This is the Operation Overlord of Computer Science.

Professor Scharff is, without question, one of the greatest professors—maybe the greatest—of all time. Believe me. I know great professors, I've seen many of them, and Professor Scharff is absolutely at the top. From the very beginning, she taught paradigms—and not the boring kind, folks. These were powerful paradigms. Beautiful paradigms.

Let me be clear: Professor Scharff is the real deal. In this programming languages course, we took on BNF grammar, SML, and Prolog with clarity and purpose. Challenging, yes—but inspiring. I left smarter and confident. That's leadership. Yes we can—debug, reason, and think better.