Lectured so bad I had to visit health services for the brain cells I lost.

Fire her. She was rude to the students and treated us like we were barely out of middle school, wasted an awful lot of class time, always pushed to fail more students at an administrative level, and generally destroyed any interest I had in computer science after 3+ years learning computer science in high school. At least attendance isn't mandatory

I had this professor in Fall 2023 and she was the worst. She was not good at teaching, and I basically relied on the TAs to review the content and I basically taught myself. She was VERY condescending and rude and treated us like we were not adults. She also almost made me start crying during her class. I recommend to not take her!!!!

she yelled at me one time for having my laptop.... in a comp sci course.... so I never went to her lectures again and still somehow learaned more than when I did.

Worst professor I had that semester. Was not good at teaching and was VERY condescending and rude that I almost cried in her class because of her. I ended up basically teaching the whole course to myself too and the TAs were the most helpful, not her. If you can avoid her I recommend to NOT TAKE HER CLASS!!

Worst teacher I have ever had in the history of my college experience. Rude to her students and does not know any of the content. TAs had to come on to her about how she taught us something incorrect. Classes only go over her notes for the main part, which arent even as good as another professor's which we can also see.

Learned more staring at a wall than I did in all of this persons lectures combined. It could be that she might excel in another coding language, but if you have this teacher for intro matlab you should resort to using the help desks and videos of other lecturers.

Never really understood much because most of the stuff was not explained well at all. She also redid the same lecture, and didn't realize it.

Only taught the class by reading slides. Might honestly be one of the least qualified professors I've ever had. Would consistently get practice problems wrong & refused to address her mistakes by laughing it off. I would understand if she rarely made mistakes & explained how she messed it up, but she maybe got 25% of the practice problems correct.

I'm not quite sure how to explain how poorly this class was run. AVOID HER AT ALL COSTS!!!!!!

I learned more in two hours reading my textbook than I did in her class. Her lectures made me lose braincells

this professor is horrid, she is not understanding of mistakes, no partial credit ever, no dropped hw or quizzes despite having long hws due each week and quizzes every other week. Teaches through slideshows that are words describing code!! if you miss a test, hw or quiz there are no excuses for making it up. TAs were very confused all the time.

Honestly not the best professor. If I don't play my cards right, I may end up having to retake the class. She is not very good at explaining. Most time when I go to her for questions, I end up more confused in the end. While I have not had much interaction with the TA's, they are somewhat helpful. But definitely take the class with another prof.

Reminder that this is the same teacher that used ChatGPT to answer her students' questions in class. Absolutely take Rod if you can, or even the online course with Joyner.

Quite honestly one of the worst professors you could get. Avoid her at all costs! She has no idea what she is teaching. She's rude, just reads off the slides to 'teach', gets half of the practice problems wrong, then won't admit she made a mistake. If I didn't buy a codecademy subscription I would've had no idea what was going on.

Lengthy homeworks every week, timed quizzes every other week, and overall a very unpleasant woman. I had to stop paying attention to lecture halfway through the semester because she only confused me more. Quizzes weren't too difficult and if you understand the homework you can get a decent score, but she is no help. Take any one else.

Absolute worst professor I have ever taken. She reads directly off the slides, does not teach, and when she does do a practice problem, she gets them wrong about half of the time?!? The TAs are also clueless. So much work, such a terrible professor. DO NOT RECOMMEND if you enjoy happiness.

Literally a horrible professor. Class was so pointless because the TAs make all the hw/quizzes/final. Never went to lecture, the TAs are AMAZING for this class though (8 of them) and they are the only reason I got an A. If you go to office hours weekly you will be fine, but don't expect to learn anything in her lecture.

Terrible. Take the online class with Joyner! She is harsh, completely unyielding, and a terrible teacher. It's clear she has no idea what she is doing, and she makes what should be a fairly straightforward class 10x harder. There are no chances to make up exams, and good luck getting an exemption. No grade replacement/drop opportunities either.

Terrible lecturer just reads off the slides and poorly explains the coding process. The TAs saved my grade and were very helpful with homework and quiz review. Definitely go to recitations especially before quizzes. I went to most lectures but honestly didn't learn much from them. I would recommend another professor if you want an easier experience

I took this section because it was at a better time than the other one and boy was that a mistake. Listen to the reviews. Do not take this section. She's nice one on one, but mean in class and she will not answer any of your questions (I don't think she knows the answers). She writes code on the board that literally errors wish I was kidding

Ms. Kearse is a lovely woman one on one and she is very kind to students. That goes to say, I unfortunately would NEVER take her class again. Quizzes constantly had mistakes, TA's did most of the work, and she is very monotone when lecturing. I hope she changes her teaching methods or GT finds a more suitable teacher for 1315.

teaching isnt her thing. there were multiple times duringlecture where she would get her own code wrong. lectures are really just her saying things. she is a cool person just not a good prof. i do not give her credit for my grade class is passable no thanks to her. course itself isnt too bad. take advantage of the TA's and knack and youll b good

Whoever rates this woman above a 2 (AT MOST) either has prior experience or has a lot of outside help. No one's being harsh or exaggerating. No one's blaming her for a bad grade. (Check her rating at Spelman). She simply lacks the knowledge and compassion it takes to be a teacher. Don't let the few high ratings conveniently sprinkled in fool you.

With absolutely no exaggeration, she was horrible. Her test averages were consistently much lower than the other professors and I don't think she knew the content. Would make mistakes and get called out by students just to ignore them and act like she was right, despite her code erroring. The TAs knew what they were doing but she definitely did not

Probably the worst lecturer of all time. You are better off doom-scrolling on TikTok than attending irettas class. Her teaching style consists of reading of the slides, and having no idea what she is talking about. The only way to get a good grade in this course is by going to TA office hours and workshops. It baffles me she is an actual professor.

AVOID HER IF YOU CAN. She's not a good professor; she just reads off the slides and doesn't properly explain the code. Not to mention, if you answer a question incorrectly in class she's kinda condescending about it. If she's your only option for this class, I'd say you're better off waiting till a later semester to get it done.

I don't know where to start. I think my knowledge of computer science decreased over this semester. PLEASE FOR YOUR OWN SAKE DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR.

I would say that she is a kind person but very bad at teaching/lecturing... she's not particularly good at answering questions in class and tends to go through the slides way too quickly and when she does go through the lecture notes, she just reads off of them and doesn't explain. I had to learn everything for this class on my own in the CS lab.

Avoid at all costs. No point in going to lecture - she will just tell you somehing wrong that the TAs will correct later in recitations. This class was so bad I almost switched out of my major to avoid taking more CS, because she's managed to make the subject intolerable. The fact that she has a job made me lose faith in Tech's integrity.

I can't decide which is more incredible: the fact that she thinks she's qualified to teach or the fact that someone at CoC agreed and decided to let her teach.

Easy class, especially if you have any foundational CS experience. However, the professor has no idea what she's talking about and just reads off the slides. She says many things in lectures that are wrong. I'd still take her class again if it fit my schedule, as you can just read the lecture slides on your own to learn the content.

She's clueless about Python. Bugs on slides that she REFUSES to admit clearly shows she doesn't code Python outside of lectures at all. If you have a decent CS background, don't even frustrate yourself with correcting a lecturer who doesn't know what amortized big-O is. Class ran by TAs, who are clueless, but at least admit. Test out if you can.

I don't think she knows how to code python outside of basic technical stuff. There were a lot of errors on her slides. Not to mention she only reads off the slides. Shes not really teaching anything at this point, I basically learned everything by reading the textbook. Don't bother going to class except for quizzes. The TA's were really helpful.

Terrible Professor, Lectures were very uninspired and boring, essentially had to try and self teach the entire course to myself

Only read off the slides. I had a better experience learning python on YouTube.

She just read off the slides and was mad when no one understood anything she said.

She doesn't really know what she is talking about during lectures and they are not very interesting. When I attended another professor's lectures, I learned way more. I went back to her lecture and I got confused. Don't take.

The lectures are not helpful because a lot of times the teacher didn't know what she was talking about, and the majority of lectures involved her reading directly from the slides. The TAs are the only reason this class was doable. If you have never taken CS this class would be hard. The content isn't horrible but the teacher just doesn't teach.

This class was so easy if you go to recitation, I went to class like once a month for the downloads. Showing up to class actually made me understand less than if I looked over the slides on my own. She messed up her own in class examples sometimes.

How she was able to get this position is beyond me. For a introductory python course, she did little to actually teach the material. In class, she often got her own miniquiz questions wrong. She taught for 30 minutes without realizing she was reteaching the previous lecture. When asked questions her response was to ask chatGPT. Tests were dumb.

CS1315 was known to be the easier of the two classes Dr. Kearse teaches, and I would agree lecture material itself is not difficult. However, the lectures were utterly useless, with sometimes incorrect information and teaching directly off the slides. If you can go to recitations, absolutely do. The TAs saved this class for me personally.

Reads straight off the slides, without explanation. Often cancels class for "Digital Learning Days." Assigns large homework assignments. Work on these as early, they will take time, but are graded easily. The quizzes aren't bad. The TAs and Chat GPT taught me everything in this course. Make sure to do participation assignments.

The class itsself was pretty easy, as long as you can follow the sequence the code is not too bad. However, she is an awful teacher. Reads straight from the slideshow and does not explain anything, if you ask her a question she just reads what she can from the slide and maybe calls on a TA to answer for her. Is really annoying and aggressive too.

She is not great at teaching, I stopped going to class about 1/4 way through the semester, and just did the participation quizzes on my own. My time was better spent teaching myself the content, as she spent a whole class barely going over what I could teach myself in 10 minutes. She doesn't know the content that she is teaching either.

She doesn't seem to understand Python at all and just recites what's written on the slides. I'm sure she knows Python to an extent, but not able to actually apply it to anything. For example, when someone asks a comprehensive question, she has no idea how to respond and directs it to the TAs. Try to take someone else!

Very poor lecturer. Lectures are basically pointless and not informative. Online attendance checks that change all the time. TA office hours are the only way to get through this class. Biweekly quizzes, weekly homeworks, and a final exam. Really don't know how she hasn't been fired yet. Different professor in the summer you should take.

I never wore my seatbelt while driving to school because i wanted to die before making it to her class.

Kearse is such a bad teacher, but if you read the slides on your own and go to TA office hours, you'll be fine.

Lectures were not useful AT ALL. In a 120 ish people class, maybe only 10 show up to lecture, and even if you go, you learn so much more from the TAs at recitation. Because the content is easy, it's not too difficult to end with an A or a B, but lots of homework and projects because of the format of the class.

She made me question the sanities of the people who hired her, and it's interesting to me that my mother has a higher degree than her. Without the three TAs I bothered so much that we became friends, I would've ripped my hair out.

Let's be real, if you took this class, you've regretted it. The coursework isn't difficult, but it's hard to understand when her lectures are wrong and asking for clarification is useless. The TAs carry this class and might as well teach it, so go to recitation and skip class. Attendance isn't mandatory. HW every week and bi-weekly quizzes.

The professor is dismissive, doesn't know her own assignments, & makes it more difficult. If you ask her a question she will leave you more confused than before and her lectures are essentially useless. The TA's are angels on this earth & know the homework and quizzes (GO TO RECITATION) way better than her. Without them everybody would be failing.

Genuinely, the worst professor I have ever had. Lectures are horrible; she reads off the slides, and if someone has a question, she tells you to Google it. Such an unlikeable personality, too. She is so dismissive, and she does not know her own assignments at all. I am doing well in this class because of the TAs and recitation is VERY helpful.

Lectures weren't that helpful and students struggled to get their questions answered during lecture. Homework was tedious but that's somewhat to be expected of a coding class.

Content is pretty simple, I could learn almost all of the stuff with the lecture slides and the recitation slides. Lectures are basically useless, and the professor is passive aggressive when you send her emails or ask questions. She is hard to get a hold of via email, and whenever she does get back to you, she is not helpful in the slightest.

awful professor. doesn't know what she's talking about. often mean and rude when she's having a bad day and takes it out on students. actually made it harder to learn. TA are life saviours. the only reason i knew what was going on.

If I had the option of having a potato teach me instead of her, I would take it, 100%.

only realized this class should have been easy when I taught myself everything, the only C I've ever gotten and I took infinitely harder classes at Tech

She doesn't teach, just dont go to class

You will learn more by just looking it up.

Over complicates the most basic things. TAKE ANYONE ELSE.

I feel ike I would like the class a lot more if it were not for the fact that I had this teacher. While the class interests me, her teaching style is not it. Lots of presentation slides with little teaching. Very dismissive and is not easy to reason with. Mini quizzes that are due in the middle of class, not the end of the day, do not miss them.

GUYS Kearse is not a good teacher but that doesn't matter because you don't need her to teach you. Go to recitation.The TAs teach it all there, they write the quizzes, they give you answers to the homework and the quizzes. You learn everything from the TAs. You don't even have to go to class, you just take a quiz over class content for attendance.

I came into GT with no background CS. The tests were pretty difficult, and HW was time consuming, but the TA's were phenomenal. She was a boring lecturer and was extremely rude to her students on multiple occasions. I would highly recommend you take someone else.

Awful. Don't recommend.

Graduated from Bowling Green State University for a reason. Has no understanding of CS. Calls "strings" as "str"s (like "stirs") and reads off the slides. Nobody comes to lectures, only reason anyone shows up is because of participation quizzes. I've punched a duck- figured illustration of her face in the Office Hours room at least 10 times. Hated.

Just let the TAs teach this class at this point Gets her own questions wrong, HW is difficult, reads directly off of slides. If you get banished to this class, go to recitation for in person instruction. Tech and the CoC should be ashamed of themselves for letting unsuspecting freshmen register for this class.

Do what everyone else says and do not go to lectures, just recitation. Some of what she teaches is not even relevant to the class, and it feels like she doesn't really know what she's talking about at times. If you do the practice quizzes and go to recitation I feel like the class is an easy A.

just reads from ppts, doesn't really explain anything, reaches stuff outside syllabus, just confuses u more, will make you wanna die from courseload

Such a boring class and the professor just reads off the slides. You're better off just skipping and studying on your own.

If she's your only option left, just wait for next semester and choose someone else. She relies too much on the TA's and you usually end up teaching yourself the material.