Good prof , she's always willing to answer questions and explains things very clearly. She is a little "cut and dried" in the sense that she will mainly just be reading the lecture notes out loud , and she doesn't sound too passionate about the subject.. but not a big deal. Assignments are quite long, so get started on them ASAP. Oh and she's hot.

Assignments were a ton of work but fun programming, if I had time. Good feedback on assingments. Lots of reading. Mostly answered messages quickly but went away one weekend when I needed help. Midterm was super easy. Final was medium hard and WAY too long. Probably would have got A if I had finished.

Thought the same as the guy under me. Very helpful for online question's. But the assignments took literally forever to work on. Glad I wasn't taking any other classes at the time. Midterm was super easy, but the final was like 20 pages and I don't think anyone could actually finish it in time.

I took both 1020 and 2140 through distance with this Prof. I was provided with all the material I needed to firmly understand the concepts, and she was always available through the discussion board or email to clarify any questions I had. Feedback on assignments was great

Loved this class! Assignments were fun but examples were critical for finishing the assignments. Was always in her office and explained assignments in detail then. Could have explained assignments more in class. Lots of clicker questions so read the text before class. Lab questions were good practice but TA was useless. Ask prof for help instead.

I don't know why I saw so many bad comments about her, she is one of the best professors I've ever had! Lectures are totally clear, everything is explained from the base material, she spends a lot of time in her office for those who had problems with the material, she helps as much as you need for assignments, overall she is great!

It was an online class, so there weren't any lectures, but she was always available to answer questions about material and did so with a lot of detail and care.

Good lectures with clear slides. Is always happy to help outside the class. Friendly.

She is accessiable outside the class and in the discussion list and she really is helpful and friendly.

Assignments are long but fun. Gives good explanations and spent lots time with me after class. Practice tests were really helpful. Easy A if you do the practice.

Real helpful and gives good explanations. Always asked if I understood and had more questions. Never rushed through a meeting. I was working while taking this class and she let me make evening appointments. Not many profs will do that.

Great professor. She is decently prompt during the week responding to forum discussions. You must love coding (this is a filter course) since assignments take a while. Tests are somewhat hard (80% consistent no studying). Textbook is not at all helpful (do not buy!). She is also quite prompt for emails (a big plus!). Solid professor overall.

I had an online class with youtube lectures and assignment, quizzes, tests for course work. She was a delight as a prof. She speaks kinda slow but put that YT baby on 1.5x and you're good to go. Her lectures were quite good, I often noticed her explaining the same query I was having in my head a second ago. Tough grader for tests/exam tho, careful!

Overall good prof. You can tell she cares about her students. One thing she does do that is a bit strange, is that she will have you complete textbook readings of a topic and complete a quiz on it before she actually gets to explaining it herself. This didn't affect me because I went into this course already knowing everything, others may struggle.

Tests were hard but fair, weekly quizzes and clicker questions were easy if you understood the material. The only criticism is that for assignments you had to go through every answer posted in the discussion forum to make sure you were doing everything right, as they wouldnt put all expectations for assignments in the assignment guidelines given.

Don't follow your high school coding. Learn the way they show in class. She answered lots of questions in class, and would explain programs over if people still had questions. Seeing how many ways there are to do things was sometimes confusing. Follow instructions exactly. If you miss something it will mess you up and waste your time.

I really appreciated the office hours after every class. Even if I didn't have questions, hearing other questions gave me ideas for my assignment. The class activities were good when my group participated. Some days my group was silent, which was annoying. She was good at pointing out topics that usually cause confusion, giving focus for studying.

The best distance class I have taken. Videos were posted so it didn't matter that we didn't have classes. Prof Heather was good at answering questions and helping with my code. Evening office hours were great when I was working. Assignments make sure you know your stuff. Tests are average.

Dr. Matheson was a great prof for this course. Her lectures are no nonsense, she gets to the point and doesn't screw around. The assignments can be pretty big, so try to start early. The tests are fairly difficult, so make sure to study enough. Overall, very understanding and caring.

I really enjoyed this class except that she would give us all the videos to watch over the weekend and a quiz to do before the first lecture that week. The lecture periods were spent working on iclicker questions in groups which was nice to not have another lecture. Very helpful when asked questions

This course is hard, period. If you are smart enough to do well in engineering you probably wont find it to be THAT difficult, but if you are not the brightest, this course will take up tons of time. If you want to learn to program, it's a good course to take, but if your worried about GPA, just learn it in a bootcamp and save a VW.

Heather was a great teacher. It was my first time taking a computer science course, and I thought she taught the basic concepts very well. Though this is a super difficult course if you've never coded before (very time consuming). Class average for tests was at best a 60%. Don't get discouraged if you don't do great at first!

I VW'ed COMP1012 with a diff prof, but the extra questions and clear lectures Heather gaves us got me an A+ this term. Didn't give a 5 because she stopped recording lectures 2/3 through the sem. We had to watch another profs who's lectures weren't as great. She still provided great practice each class/week. Very hard class, do all of practice!

Heather Matheson is a good professor for CSE I have ever taken. She is very cooperative and caring.

I have no idea why there's so many bad reviews under this prof. Lectures were useful , exams/assignments were tough, but fair

I had her during online classes and she was very helpful. She gave pointers on assignments and helped when any question was asked, very active on piazza aswell. Overall her tests were a little tough because of the time, but overall she is a great prof.

This was an in-person class ran as a hybrid course. Lecture videos and following mini quizzes were required to do before scheduled class time. In class there were coding assignments with corresponding I-clicker questions worth participation marks. This was good way to learn and I think Heather did a good job. The only was the test lengths.

The lectures are just group coding activities worth marks, which is good as it fosters learning and practicing the topics. The workload is high; there are long videos to watch and a 15-minute quiz each week. Term tests are very challenging, given little time to do them. If you work hard and do all the provided practice questions, you should be fine

I've never coded before so this was something new to me. This course was challenging especially the tests and assignments (assignments were ambiguous) but if you do the weekly practice questions, you should be fine with the tests. you make a lot of friends here from the group work. a tough course but one of my favourites

Prof. Matheson is absolutely wonderful. Enough said.

They have a flipped classroom for 1012, and it really worked for me and a lot of people since we watched the videos outside of class and practiced what we learned in class. The tests were difficult but fair, especially since they gave many practice questions which made the tests make a lot of sense.

First time taking computer science, I found the course relatively easy because of how many resources were made available. The online textbook Zybooks, preclass videos, powerpoints, piazza, and the way the class was set up made everything much easier. Her explanations were fantastic, my only complaint is that she was a little quiet.

One of the things I like about Dr. Matheson is how accessible she is outside of class. Aside from the format of the course, which is learn the material on your own and practice with questions in class, I found Dr. Matheson to be more straight-forward and less confusing compared to the other instructors. If you're taking 1010, zyBooks helped a lot.

I probably only got the grade that I did because I have 3 years programming experience from high school. If you haven't coded before, it will be a difficult course and will take a lot of time out of your week. If you coded in high school you should be fine. The difficulty comes from the short amount of time to learn the given content, not the prof.

I probably only got the grade that I did because I have 3 years programming experience from high school. If you haven't coded before, it will be a difficult course and will take a lot of time out of your week. If you coded in high school you should be fine. The difficulty comes from the short amount of time to learn the given content, not the prof

As someone who's taken both her online and in-person lectures, she's, like a lot of profs, better in-person. As someone who's life revolves around the computer, COMP2150 is a lot of work, but fairly easy.

Second course I've taken with Matheson. I think her lectures are great, and she's good at explaining new concepts. Would recommend!

She is nice and a good prof

I personally like the way she teaches and how her lectures are set up. Outside of class, she is very helpful in her office hours and genuinely cares.

She is a good instructor and is very nice and approachable. I would love to take a course with her again!