In one word useless. She comes to the class every time and surprises you cause you don't know what she is gonna teach. She is extremely unorganized. She starts talking and doesn't care even if a single person doesn't get a word. Don't take the computer course with her unless you want max B.

Always reads from notes and never explains anything shes writes on the board. Lab time is 95% lecture based of notes that are not explained. Writes about 8 pages of notes per class with little to no explanation.BEWARE

BEWARE, illogical, unprofessional and insensitive. absolutely not made to be a teacher.

Seriously, worst teacher I have ever had in Computer Science Department in Langara. Purposely downgrade and discourage students in any way she wants, way too arrogant about her teaching style, wrote too much notes on the blackboard and never put any notes online. Don't ever trust guys who gave her full mark below.

Avoid at all costs. She is the type of professor that thinks grades are everything. That if you dont get a good grade in one of the midterms (even if you got A in all the rest) you are not good enough for a CS major.

Absolutely garbage teacher. Avoid at all costs. True savage on marking midterms. "It doesn't compile" -proceeds to deduct marks even though the logic/theory was correct. Useless ass assignments. Basically learned nothing from her.

She teach nothing at lecture. Writing all notes on the board, no ppt lectures. WORST teacher EVER.

Terrible. Avoid.

she is just a horrible teacher, she will never listen to you, so forget it regarding any kind of help, you will fail the course for sure.

Horrible,, worst teacher ever

Worst instructor ever... u will never get any kind of help from her

She's a really tough grader, the fact that we are writing our tests on paper for every exam she should be more considered. In my case, missing a semicolon on a line costed me 2 points.... Like c'mon, we are all learning and we are not master students. She discourages you to keep going and she believes she has all the rights to do so and train us...

Terrible teacher.... should not be teaching for a living

No help in office hours and does not help with assignments. If you do not understand the huge chunks of code she throws at you in class you won't get much help from her . Very hard marker does not give any breaks for simple syntax errors in exam situations.

Sadly she is more interested in show off her code rather than explain it. A very disappointing class plagued with a huge amount of homework that will force you to spend about 20 hours of real time work ( research, implementation and debugging.). She also deducts marks achieved from well done code if you have something wrong.

She spends all the time in writing the code on board rather than explaining it. Gives you no slides to read.

Her marking scheme is extremely subjective and she insists on writing paper exams for a course that has no right to be difficult at all. Her reasoning is that you should write paper exams so you don't get stuck on compiling, yet she marks small syntax errors very harshly as well as stylistic naming conventions which have nothing to do with the code

Unclear Assignment,lab requirements/no online resource except from publisher/bad explainer/copying the programs on board/ old, reused messy notes and missing details. Her program won't works unless you debug them/bad, unorganized programming style in my opinion. no direct answers, she expect you know every'n.

Not much to say. Out of my entire time at Langara, I would have to admit, she's one of the worst teachers you could possible have. Hypocrite on marking exams. You forgot a semicolon? Misspelled a word? -2 for everyone. Tells on us when she makes the exact mistakes when writing her notes on the board. Holy, just please, avoid her at all cost.

Messy notes on board, Unorganized, Reuses the exact same assignments every semester, unclear assignments, vague answers when responding to student's questions, tough marker who has no clue how to mark, hypocrite, tells the entire class "we don't deserve to be computer scientists" because were not getting a A, boring examples from textbook.

She is one of the most terrible teacher in Langara CS department. No slides and all notes are writing on the board. And the notes are unclear. I even don't know how to prepare a midterm. For other CS courses(1050,1150,1160,2150), My average grade is B+. But at her 1181, I only got a C-.

She teaches how to boil rice in class and in exams asks how to make sushi

This course has been the worst ever. I didn't know about this website and I have to say that I agree with all negative comments. I've been able to manage it so far because tutoring, I've taken previous CPSC course such as 1050, 1030, 1045, 1150, 2221, and my grades go from -A to A+, now with 1181 I have worked twice but still she makes it confusing

Just don't take her.

Awful instructor. Stay away from this at all cost. Unfortunately, she's the only one who teaches the course, so make sure you give your 120% otherwise, you're screwed.

Just don't take her, horrible teaching method.

Avoid her. Come on we are living in 21st century use a tool called power-point. Stop writing on the board, we are programmer not copy-paste machine. Teach us the method, not the code. We can find the code from internet.

She's probably one of the worst tutors in the cpsc dept. As a cpsc instructor, she should be constantly updating her teaching methods, but no. All she cares about is writing on the board. Her code is riddled with bugs, debugging takes hours & she expects everyone to be perfect. And I'm talking after I've worked in the field for a few years!!

Friendly & extremely knowledgeable, but not a good teacher. Was so focused on writing code from the board before she erased, had no time to listen & comprehend her explanation of it. Please make code available on D2L to have a reference to learn from. No partial marks on midterms, she seems hellbent on failing students rather than teaching them.

No one in Langara can supervise her? All other instructors who I took course with, they use magic tool called powerpoint and provide us code. She on the other hand, write a code on board, then expect you to understand it at the same time. If she is your instructor, just drop the course like me.

Computer science class? More like English class, every class you get to write an entire essay. Cmon, it's 2019, how can you do computer science without a computer

gladys is good a teaching topics and she explains things pretty well, however that doesnt make up for the fact that her tests are made extremely difficult compared to anything you do in class. also there are weekly assignments that take a ridiculous amount of time to complete. there are much easier profs than her, no point in tanking your gpa

Please do not delete the comments, students have the rights to know about her teaching method. We have freedom in this country. Do not take her course, she is really bad at explanining but extremely picky about your work. Never provides powerpoint or pdf about the code. So basically you have to copy everything from board. Again, do not take it.

I dont understand how she is still an instructor at Langara. Her teaching methods are outdated, her inclass exercises are hand-written which btw, are riddled with bugs but she has an unrealistic expectations from students, no PowerPoint or pdfs given as a reference material for studying - you basically have to do it on ur own. DONT take her class

Killed all my interest in coding.

I wish I had listened to everyones warnings before taking her. I ruined my gpa, ruined any love I had for coding. And am killing myself with her assignments. She just comments done incorrectly, without giving you the correct answer. You go and ask her what should I have done shell use a function she didnt talk about it class.

I only took her course because she was the only instructor for this course on the semester I took it, in other words, I was very hesitant to register due to the reviews on this website. But boy oh boy, this course is a train wreck from week 1, she changes grading criteria out of nowhere, changes grades 2 weeks after the grade was submitted on d2l..

Horrible teacher. She needs her notes next to her while doing the lecture, and she takes forever to get to the point of what she is trying to say. Making it very hard to follow and very confusing. So obsessed with cheaters that she made the midterms long with a limited amount of time to even do and that is just unfair to the honest students.

If you can avoid her, do it. Unfortunately, it seems like she's the only one at this college who can teach this course. One of the worst classes regarding Data Structure and Algo. Things don't have to be this tough, she takes forever to get to a point.

This class is a train wreck from the start. Forever to get to a point, obsessed with making tests tougher than necessary, provides assignment that are essentially unrelated to what was taught in class. No proper notes. Accessible outside the class but is extremely rude. Wish the cpsc department did something about her!

Her lecture and Assignment is super heavy, the way she teach is very fast and hard to keep up. She would assume everyone to be very strong at programming and understand all concept. Test very heavy and tough grader , won't take easy on code and deduct all marks. No partial marks given

Absolutely avoid Gladys, only take her class if you have the time to stand in long lines for office hours, she does not explain anything in class and expects students to know how to implement complicated algorithms without any help. She does not care if the students understand what she is teaching and gives vague answers to questions. WORST PROF.

Even if she is the only professor left for the course, do not take her, take the course next semester, or take a drop for the semester, but definitely don't register for her class. Her instructions are very unclear, whether it is for the lab, assignment or any thing else.

One of the worst Instructors in Langara. I lost my interest in Coding even I got A -B grades in prev courses. I don't know why CPSC dep. is not replacing her. The assignments are very tough as compared to class stuff. I read all the reviews first but I got no other option instead of taking her bcz she was only one who was teaching at that time

absolutely avoid her, so stressful semester. Terrible at explaining, worst at teaching. Homework is nothing to do with the topics he teaches, she thinks she is really good at her job, but opposite she should not teach this course.

I got B+, and I am still complaining about her. The grade I got has nothing to with her, I hired a tutor for helping me cost me roughly 2k. Her teaching method and way is made me sick and cant understand anything. Really not recommend to those who got below A+ in 1160 to take her course. I got A from 1160 and still could not understand her at all.

My rating has nothing to do with my grade but rather her teaching only. Terrible teaching method, incredibly rude and passive aggressive, expects students who are new to know everything from the get go, tough grader - either completion or 0. This is a 200 level course, not rocket science, so it should be taught as such. Terrible. Stay away.

She is awful very boring lectures and uses 10 years old coding to give assignments and try to force students to code in old fashion. Like I never saw a professional using that trash way to code. I will say she is too old but very childish ( makes me feel kind for her)

Worst professor you can have to learn C++. If you've taken her class please just drop it unless youre a programming prodigy. Lengthy assignments, way too difficult and tough grading in exams, very very difficult to understand her teaching, little no material published in Brightspace for self-study. An absolute no go.

Avoid at all costs unless you have previous experience with c++ or coding in general. I've taken this course with 2 professors (100% full clear the first time but forced to take it again). Her assignment instructions are often unclear and difficult to interpret/decipher. She teaches as though the students have prior experience.

Worst professor you can have for 1160. Difficult assignments with unclear instruction, difficult and tough grading in exams, very difficult to understand her teaching, especially she was writing lecture notes digitally and was hard to follow, little to no material published in D2L, expect you to learn based on the 2-hour lecture. Drop the course

Very difficult grader and in the midterms will take marks off for the smallest things. Expects perfection and coding experience prior to this intro course. She explains the definition of things, but not how to use them for more difficult situations (which she will test you on). Don't take her no matter what. If you need this course, choose not her.

Alright here are some tips to pass her class: 1. LOCK IN when she is starting on the loops chapter and above make sure you know this type of stuff else ur going to be cooked for the semester!! TRUST ME 2. read the textbook and do the questions in it (they are identical to the midterm but harder) 3. she doesn't follow each chapter accordingly

She gives good questions for the midterm, but the final is much more difficult than the midterm. There are also several unannounced exams. There is a lack of mock tests and rudimentary assignments, so it's very hard to keep up unless you already know C++. I can't say my specific grade, but I will say that I got 3-4 below CPSC 1181 and CPSC 1150.

AVOID this prof at all costs please. For your own sake.

Horrible class, don't take it

It's insane that this instructor is still allowed to teach when year after year they don't bother improving their teaching methods.The assignments aren't representative of the tests.She is accessible outside the class but it's not that helpful. Dings you for the smallest mistakes, majority of which will never be thought of in actual industry.

She will take forever to give marks back to midterms, took over a month to find out what my grade was on both midterms. Doesn't give anything to prepare for quizzes, midterms or exams. Lectures are extremely dry. Most of her explainations are vague and not helpful. Avoid if you can.

Tough course, but Unstuck study helped me ace it. Avoid this prof if you can - assignments are unclear and they teach like you have prior coding experience. Read the textbook and do practice problems to survive.

Agree with most of these reviews, you should take this course with a very solid understanding of both C++ and calculus. Midway through the course she pulled out discrete calculus out of nowhere, recommend to take at least up to calc2 before taking this one - algorithm memorization heavy. Does not "read the room" to notice we are all lost.

Lectures are very boring and hard to follow along. Its like watching someone else code while you just sit there and do absolutely nothing. Labs are useless and do not help as she takes the entire lab going over previous assignments so you cant even do the labs. The quiz times are only 30 mins way to short and not enough time to think.

Don't take any courses she teaches, unless you are very good at C++! Heavy assignment (I spend at least 4-5 hours finish each.) She loves to report student plagiarism, she reported at least 10 people plagiarized in the assignment in my class, and over half of the class in CPSC1155, so be careful! Difficult midterm the class avg mark just 40marks.

Stay away, she is a plagiarism weapon. Literally half of the class got reported plagrizied because of her poorly written assignment instructions. How to pass: Do her Recursion Document, quiz every week, and assign are similar to midterms so whenever its midterm season, redo your assign. Also she does not teach the subject well (or at all even..)

She teaches as if the students have exprience in C++ code already. This class did not feel beginer friendly at all. Lectures are very boring and no one shows up. The quizs are only 30 mins, which does not give a lot of time to think. I recommend to have prior C++ knowledge before taking this teacher. She is not beginer friendly!!!

This teacher is an unfair grader. Out of all the teachers I had at langara, this one literally takes off so many marks in the code. If the code doesn't compile, you get a 1/10. Like come on already, seriously? My other computer programming teachers would atleast go through the code and give you part marks for trying. This course was so depressing.

She is the worst instructor I've ever had. Tests are hard, grading is unfair, and she cares more about catching plagiarism than helping students. She doesn't understand students at all.Unless you're already very familiar with C++, you will struggle ,she teaches like everyone already knows the language. If you have any other option, avoid her class.

Absolutely worst professor I have ever had in my university career so far. Deducts grade heavily and will put you through academic integrity for ridiculous reasons in assignments. Does not reply to email, shows no concern towards students and loves degrade students as much as she can. Watch for mistakes in assignments and exams or else fail.

Her lectures are very long and not very helpful. She could perhaps have had more labs than lectures, as when I was coding during the labs, I learned a lot more than by just watching her code on the board for 2 hours straight. Her quizs times are way too short, only 30 mins, and sometimes the compiler doesnt work. She also deducts a lot of marks.

I'm someone who has worked in the industry, & it's crazy to see an instructor teach like this. The HWs are not representative of the materials taught in class. You need prior understanding of the material and calc2 to succeed. Horrible teaching process. Too pressed on catching plagiarism rather than caring for students' learning. Avoid if you can.

Does not teach at a beginners level pace like she claims, is horrible and condescending towards me. I would avoid at all costs if possible

By far the worst professor I've ever had. F you Monagan.

My experience with Gladys was not good. She tried her best, but for me, she is not a good "beginner" course instructor. She had 3 different sections, which is too many. Lots of homework. She puts too much emphasis on plagiarism. Too little in-class practice. Quizzes every week. Lectures were not helpful; she did not stop to clarify doubts(Rushed)

Unfortunately Gladly's rushed classroom pace left a sour taste for me regarding computer science at langara. Would often deprive students of resources to work with in regards to tests / quiz material and would always refer to "the textbook" for practice, however, the jump from the textbook to her examinations are huge. Would not recommend at all.

Had to drop because her lectures were not really beneficial for me. Have to retake next semester, BEWARE. DO NOT INTERACT

Learn C++ prior to taking this class to do well or be prepared to spend 4 hours every week on an assignment worth 1% of your total grade. Doesn't really give part marks if you don't fully write the function correct to her standards be prepard to get below 50%. If you don't want to feel like ending it all, can't recommend this class.

idk why shes still here, 2.1 for 3 years is crazy work js retire atp

Stopped looking before crossing the road because I'd rather get run over than go to any of her classes

Look at all these meat riders. Gladys is not a good prof. Sure she's a good person but she doesn't know how to teach. Stop meat riding.

Easy if you already know how to code and a confusing mess if you don't. If you have dreams of getting into UBC, now's the time to start teaching yourself C++