There is a lot of work due in this class. Takes more time to understand the questions than to answer them. 30-50 question quizzes, many homeworks, and projects (one assigns a term paper as a quesiton in the project :/). Had a term paper, project , homework, and quiz due just during finals in this class, not including the final for this class..

Spelling "cache" the same way you would spell "cash" would be forgivable if you were new to English or simply didn't know much about computers. This professor has been teaching in the US for a good long while, and made this error repeatedly on the first day of our computer architecture class. The rest has gone exactly as you might expect.

This class questioned my sanity. The grading is so harsh on the in-class and homework assignments. The exams are easier than assignments, but assignments are worth way more. The exams are based off in-class assignments, but definitely not the same, so it can be difficult. You can print off ppt slides, but she doesn't teach, so good luck

The homework assignments are pretty difficult, and since her lectures and in class assignments don't reflect the difficulty level in the homeworks, it makes it a lot more difficult. The homework is worth 42% and is graded really harshly. The exams are okay, but you have to really understand the material to do well. Be prepared to take time on hw

The difficulty of the homework was intense and takes up a long time to complete. You have to be there every day because she gives out random in-class assignments that are similar to the exam, but also not completely similar, so you have to study a lot. The homework is a large percentage of the grade though, and she has VERY strict grading on those.

Assignments are ridiculously hard and the professor is not really good at explaining. Hated this class, and was very stressful.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. My grade is A right now, but that took a lot of reading. And not sure if that's gonna remain A. Hardest part is the assignment. Very very long and difficult assignments. She expects you to learn all the programming language in one semester, which is OK in a sense but damn the assignments related to it are crazy.

Class is divided into quizzes, assignments, and exams. The quizzes are fairly easy. The assignments take hours to complete and are more important than quizzes. Part of what makes this class so frustrating is the fact that the questions on assignments are hard to understand. I can't stress enough how important it is you start the assignments early.

DO NOT TAKE. HER CLASS IS HORRIBLE ONLINE. SERIOUSLY. TAKE SOMEONE ELSE. DO YOURSELF A FAVOR. HWK - 48%, QUIZZES - 4%, TESTS - 48%. HER HWK IS EXTREMELY LONG AND VAGUE. HER LECTURES ARE USELESS. GOOD LUCK IF YOU TAKE HER. THEY LITERALLY TAKE OFF PTS FOR EVERYTHING. SHE EXPECTS PERFECTION ON EACH ASSIGNMENT AND EXPECTS U TO UNDERSTAND HER VAGUE HWK.

First professor I've met that is really out of touch with her students. Not only was 46% worth of credit for the class due in the span of 2 days, the take-home final exam took 2 days straight on finals week to complete. I see this as very inconsiderate to those who have other exams to do. Lectures/grading also were extremely disorganized. Avoid.

I have never in my life taken a worse class than this one. I took Nguyen for architecture, Goodrum for OS and Min for AI. This class takes the cake. I write this review staring at the 28 pages of free-response mathematical carnage I have written to complete her final exam. On top of teaching poorly, she gave us 48 hours to complete. Save yourself.

She gives hard,time-consuming assignments and the exams and quizzes contain similar questions to the assignments. The textbook was not useful for this class and her lectures were written from textbook. Go to office hours for assignment clarification and watch youtube videos to learn the concepts and start the assignments when assigned.

Not knowledgeable of subject material at all. Her lectures and questions are purely from the textbook. If a student asked something that she can not find in the textbook, she would not know the answer or would answer with a completely different answer. She lacks awareness of her own teachings and does not know what she is doing.

Maybe this was a decent class online, but the experience was terrible in person. In-person lectures were extremely dry and did not adequately prepare you for the homework and and resources were hard to find. I understand the importance of rigor, but this class was merely time-consuming and tedious.

If you're a beginner and hope to understand her lectures, you're wasting your time. The toughest assignments I have seen in my life! Each assignment is very unclear and abstract and takes more than week to finish as each question is a project in itself AND IS ABSOLUTELY UNRELATED TO THE CLASS. PLEASE AVOID TAKING HER CLASS IF YOU CAN.

Basically just repeat everything in the textbook without any extra explanation. So why we pay thousands dollars to take this class? Stupid policy for assignment submission. I lose 20pts because I include pdf file into the code zip file and my grades drops. She doesn't care how much you learned. No sample answer no demonstration for assignment.

JUST DON'T TAKE THIS COURSE UNDER HER. I scored A in 6000 level courses deemed to really tough however her grading criteria are not clear as well as question asked in assignments and homework are not even touched upon in the lecture. She just reads the slides. Take anything but this class.

Inconsistent grading. She grades based on how she feels.

Terribly long homework. The examples she gives during class have nothing to do with homework. Exams are difficult. There were many questions on the final exam that weren't on the sample test. Tough grader.

This professor was beyond disorganized, were supposed have 5 assignments which became 4 two weeks before the final exam. There were completion grade quizzes every single class that said verbatim "Explain this program" which evidently was also on the final exam. She wanted us to explain the program line by line and say what each line meant.

Really bad teaching, equally bad grading. Slides are directly taken from w3schools and examples are just shown by opening w3schools editor. If she tries to demonstrate something on her own, she almost always runs into errors and the students have to correct her. Even slightest mistakes in the exam causes you to lose all the marks for the question.

I hate how this professor copies everything from the textbook while we copy what she writes down from the textbook. There is not much teaching that goes on rather you have to analyze and try to learn yourself because the professor doesn't explain what she is writing down as she copies from the textbook.

Professor Karami does not reply to emails and neither does she upload her notes in a timely manner. I will never take her again!

Where does UTD find these professors? I have never met a person who refuses to read what is in front of their eyes. She can't even copy what the textbook says! Also, who teaches the same lecture over and over again?? Please run away, or you will cry. I don't even know if the curve is worth it anymore (if there is one).

Dr Karami had a super poor course structure. Nothing was outlined properly and she never could answer student questions because she did not know the answers. She changed how things would work after you had already done them because she felt like it, even did it during the class final. I would avoid this teacher at all costs.

Class was extremely disorganized, with homework being completely detached from the lectures (which were not good). Quizzes every lecture which took a long time for only 5% of your grade. Final exam was ripped from textbook questions, asking you to write extremely long code by hand (would be impossible if it weren't open note)

Horrible class. Bad at teaching, bad at communicating, homework is long and tedious, grading takes over a month, in-person quizzes every class, the list goes on. Exams are literally off the homework, and the homework is off the textbook. You can look up the textbook solution PDF lol. Easy class but still horrible, nonetheless.

Horrible prof, grading was about as good as a random number generator. She has no sympathy or leniency. Get 9/10 parts to a question right? Well here is 0 credit for it. Also she has no examples to base your answers off. She is too lazy to give answer keys for reviews. Uses student solutions to base sample problems, and they are sometimes incorrect

In this course expect to have a partner for all asignments. This is REQUIRED you are assigned one if you dont find one, and to be honest the homework would be impossible if it wasnt split up. Her lectures are not good, she prints out the slideshows and writes on top of them. The only saving grace is the curves.

Very disorganized. Grades very hard and curves a lot. There was no midterm grade and the curve is hidden. Be ready to print 100s of slides to use on the final exam. Attend class to get extra credit points on the exam.

Just take Chris Davis. Karami cares but doesn't really help at all if you get stuck with a bad TA. The lectures are so long and don't make you want to show up. Textbook examples help a lot and the homeworks are basically whole projects. Take Chris Davis and save your mental health.

Without a doubt my worst class experience in my 3 years of college. I came into this class thinking there is a big curve but she just suddenly stopped doing that? Extra credit is not what it seems and the TA has it out for you. You make one small mistake and you get 20 points docked off and there's been cases of disputing that causing more docking

Karami is kind and caring. Super chill about deadlines. But then there's her TA, who felt like the final boss of this course. She'd dock you 20-30pts like she is charging rent on your assignments. Also, the final curve was like a bag of chips, looked promising, but was mostly air. Some students got a handful, while others just crumbs.

TA will kill your grade, GPA, and will to live. All her exams are now in the testing center on paper. If you dispute your grade on something it gets lowered. 4 Assignments that are in groups of 2 and graded very harshly. Paper attendance when she feels like it. Curve is bad. Lectures are monotonous, boring, and hard to follow. she will cook you.

She waited til the day after the last possible date to drop her class to drop the midterm grade. Karami is officially cooked for all her classes now, don't take her for anything. Pay close attention to her submission guidelines too, if you don't submit it exactly how she wants she'll take points off. my avg curve was B- to a B.

Dr. Karami was a very caring professor, but the course itself felt disorganized. Finding more material online to try to understand the content more is nonexistent, solutions from other professors were completely different. She cares and tries to give more credit but don't expect a huge curve to your grade. Long group homeworks!

Most unorganized Professor ever!

shes awful

disorganized class terrible lectures mixed in with weirdly formatted slides, harsh grading and disputes can only be made in person(the final was graded 1 day before all grades are due on orion) terrible class i'd just take someone else theyre likely to be more organized

So unorganized, don't expect to get your work graded for weeks to months. Open note exams so you have to be dumb not to pass and she curves. She doesn't understand the course material and can't do some of the problems she assigns. She also can't submit grades on time.

Very poor quality of instructor. don't even know where to start but the things I dislike the most about her class is that she just reads slides during the class and expect students to learn so much. Her TA's suck too. They are super harsh grader and also take forever to grade. avoid her at all cost

Don't take her class. Youre gonna regret

I genuinely think how was she able to become a professor. No matter what CS background she has, she is not good at teaching.

Have a lot to say about her teaching style and how the grade is weighted. you wouldn't learn a thing from her class.

She was not good at teaching Paradigms compared to Computer Architecture and Digital Logic. Her TAs grade HW and exams harshly and she is very stingy with how many points she will give back. Her lectures are confusing especially since she messes up her own questions. Wish there was better options for Paradigms.