Most not understanding teacher ever. Didnt try to help students at all, hard and boring

Worst CS teacher I've had at SMC. Class is ridiculous, the material is very unclear and tests are way too hard. unless you are a CS genious don't take this class with her. You will regret it. But on the other hand if you wanna screw up your GPA by all means take it.

This class was terrible. Do NOT take her.

I did not learn much from this class.

Lousy class.

she sucks, hw is very confusing, test are very confusing, explains things very poor, dont take her unless your a cs major. if you take her dont hesitate to drop.

Do not take VB online with her. You will not learn.

I took this class online and I wish I didn't. It took time to get my questions answered and by that time I was late with me work.

online class was really hard. Teacher was slow answering email.

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I took this class online and dropped. It was super hard.

This is the worst professor ever!!!!! She is extremely unorganized, doesnt know what shes talking about and grades extremely unfair. actually puts down students for asking questions.

Avoid at all times worst Professor no humor, a rock personality, terrible avoid.

The worst teacher I have ever had. Never explains anything she wants you to do. Doesn't teach and doesn't care about the students.

Thanks to her, I ended up having to retake the cl****. She never fully answered my questions and just left me scratching my head. If you do have her as your professor, drop the cl****. Take it next semester!

Online class. Very little feedback. Our text material is not friendly to searching, as we have no text book. Quiz structure changes without warning.She does answer most questions promptly, but does not correct obvious mistakes either in material or quizzes.

This was an online course, by reading some of the reviews seems others with online courses had the same experience. Doesn't post on discussions even when she says she will and her feedback is crucial to assignment. Doesn't answer questions. Very unclear instructions. Not good at managing the course website. Doesn't care about students.

An "old school" professor who doesn't teach so much as leave her students to teach themselves. She rarely answers a question with clarity. Her testing is inconsistent, a fair test as likely as an exam on material not covered in a course. With her, anything is possible & everything is fair game. Fair is what she says it is, so you take your chances.

She doesn't care about her students and her communications and directions are condescending. She'll also backtrack on her answers or address the point of a question. As a CS major, I dread having her as a professor. She's often unfair and capricious, not to mention abrasive and uncaring. Thought I'd post my complaint as a warning to all.

I didn't actually have this professor but the night professor was forced to use her curriculum. Her tests are poorly written, and trick questions are her favorite. She will try to trip you up on semantics. Reading the textbook is a must to get by in her class. I would never want to take another classes headed by her.

She is not very helpful and very indirect with her responses to my questions. She doesn't seem very enthusiastic or passionate about Matlab which is a bit disappointing. I enjoy learning MATLAB and felt I could've gotten more out of the class had I taken it with another professor.

I took the online version of this class and it should have been a refresher course for me. Unfortunately, this teacher and I had several disputes: When she makes mistakes, she refuses to acknowledge them. She refused to fix scoring typos (her mistake). She was horrible at responding to questions. I ended up dropping the class.

Darwiche is the most hands off instructor you'll ever encounter. Avoid taking classes by this instructor. I read the reviews before taking the class and I regret it. No explanation for correct or incorrect answers on tests or assignments or the reading. Lectures are book slideshows. Instructor is only there to grade not to help or teach. Beware!

Terrible instructor - her sample code won't compile and is full of errors. AVOID!! You also have to buy a worthless textbook she wrote. I threw it in a trash can after I bought it. Bookstore won't buy it either. 100's of books on Visual Basic, but she has to be greedy as well... This single class I will have to take at UCLA to avoid this prof

I am a diligent student, so I know the importance of reading, participating, studying, asking questions, etc. I took CIS 51 online and found the prof to be unresponsive and unclear. When we asked questions, the responses were vague and left us with more questions. Assignment instructions were equally confusing. Look for a different prof.

She is very hands off and offers no help. She provides no feedback, posts useless slides, information copied from the book directly, tests from the book and then posts errata and I'm sure she never looks at the tests v the book to make sure the answers are inline with the errata in the book. She expects business writing but she fails at this.

Took her CS50 class online and dropped Her online lectures were powerpoints but were not clear at all. Her demos did not explain the code, and the homework was difficult because she does not clarify in the notes how to even start. She was not a good help when I emailed her letting her know that the notes did not make sense to me.

Interesting concepts in the course (or at least in the MATLAB language).However, this course was a disaster. The instructor is slow to respond to questions. Her slides aren't helpful. For certain weeks, her homework assignments contain information in chapters we haven't even covered yet. Didn't give the right info on what topics would be on midterm

Let me preface, I hold 3 degrees and have taken close to 60+ courses in my life. This class is the first time I've ever had to withdraw. Why? I had a A up until the midterm then the tests came and I found that the readings: slides and Professor written textbookk didn't match any of the materials in the tests/quizzes (which are 70% of your grade).

Looking at the recent reviews it seems I'm the 3rd person who has withdrawn in week (10 of 12) from the same course. The issue is the professor seems to have gotten the course textbook from an author who is ESL, much like her, and the information in the readings never matched up to the tests and quizzes which affected everyone's grade in the course

PAINFULLY unclear. heres an e.g.: Write a function named AddEm that has two arguments The function returns the value of adding numbers starting from the first arguments, with increments of 1 ending and including the second argument. if 1st argument is less than the second argument use a while loop to generate the return value. Otherwise, return0"

Professor was mediocre for the most part. The course definitely gets harder throughout the semester. Questions throughout the homework and especially test are very unclear which can lead to a bad grade. Final was very unorganized and not cumulative for the most part. His wording is just not the best.

Honestly do yourself a favor & don't take this class. I've used Python for nearly 8 yrs. Developed ALOT of python projects, won hackathons, added to on Github repositories, debugged python, taught other people python. I'm like easy A. That was a mistake this was the WORST teacher. The tests are ridiculous, make no sense, & no time to complete them

The quizzes don't reflect the module or are worded in a way you can understand. It's very unclear what we are supposed to do. I have to browse youtube videos to learn python. I think her main focus is preventing cheating, not teaching. Very little time on quizzes to rap your head around, and very little points to be able to make up for mistakes.

I had this professor for Programming class she is a terrible professor. She is computer science professor taught programming classes, Now she started teaching Computer Security class CS73A. She had ZERO Knowledge and Experience in Computer Security. Professor sit behind the online system to avoid the direct question . BEWARE OF THIS PROFESSOR.

I took this class last semester. Very Basic class, seems like professor does not practical experience in this course. Quizzes does not reflect the course, made unnecessarily hard to lower students grade. Avoid this class.

Avoid taking this Professor, class does not resemble lecture material and impossible to get hold of her. Grades really harshly and each point on the test matters. The midterm is 20% of your grade and is worth 20 points. Therefore 1 point off is one whole percent off. Same with the final except 30%. Avoid at all possible costs.

Very complex class . Quizzes does not match the material. Professor teach many subjects which she had no experience. She does not cover the material and make quizzes and exams time deficient to lower students grades.

I know some python Programming , Subject is not hard but how this professor teach this subject makes it impossible for the students to understand. Professor teaching style shows she had no experience with the subject. Avoid this professor.

The slides are horrible.

Avoid her class at all costs. She doesn't care about students. She is not at all familiar with the subject of this class and she teaches as if she is teaching a fundamental class. She even skipped some serious subjects related to programming in Python. Her quizzes are absolutely irrelevant to the real world and the lecture material.

She's THE WORST, don't take her. I had to stay on top of her to micromanage my success and she still fails to respond adequately, you may msg her way before a deadline, play phonetag with worthless responses, and never get a answer to your question. Grades on instructions not listed, I'm surprised she still has her job teaching the way she does.

This professor was consistently mean and not helping me when I emailed her for questions. Don't take her class.

She's the worst professor I've ever had, if you take her you'll regret it too. SMC should not have such unclear, trash quality teachers on campus. Such an unhelpful rude woman who never replies to emails and refuses to accept responsibility for her shortcomings.

Worst professor in Smc. Very rude and unfair

This prof wasted so much of my time making us do quizzes/assignments that had no connection to the real world whatsoever. I started to become very interested in programming before I took her class. I've now almost fully recovered from that terrible experience as I had to take a break from programming after her winter class (it's almost summer now).

Class is difficult because of teacher. Homework is poorly worded. The white board on zoom sessions is indecipherable. There is a quick overview of basic concepts and then we are expected to fill in the blanks. Quiz questions and midterm were designed to be extremely difficult. Homework is not even worth doing because it's weighted so low. It's bad.

A four hour crash course on python from freecodecamp will give you a much better understanding of python and programming fundamentals. If you have taken ANY intro to programming class and are familiar with python or basic syntax across different languages, avoid her, you will learn absolutely nothing

One of the worst teachers I had so far. Poor at explaining. Test are not what we went over in lectures. Seems like the type of class you have to know Python already. Too bad she is the only teacher who teaches Python.

She's a horrible teacher that loves busy work. Take Python elsewhere. She should not be teaching as she doesn't understand the nuances of the English language and will mark you wrong on correct answers because of this.

Took her class because she was the only Prof. that teaches Python on SMC. Exams and Quizzes are not from given lectures and practice problems. Recommend taking Python from different college if she is the only option.

Professor expects you to be entirely self taught, and then tests on criteria that is not included in the lectures/slides/book/discussions/assignments nor can be logically inferred if you knew all of the information presented in this course and even have background knowledge of python. One word of advice: avoid. Also test ?s are not well worded.

Jiwan Darwiche is a BULLY. If this professor does not like you, Jinan Darwiche will include SMC Administration in emails to you and THREATEN to have ADMINISTRATION kick you out of the school. I don't know why SMC continues to have Jinan Darwiche on faculty. BULLYING IS ILLEGAL IN CALIFORNIA.

Please take my advise and don't take her. You will regret. I even don't know how she got a 2.6 review out fo so many review. She should be a ZERO star, not even 1. She is tough, unprofessional and expects you to have a Master in project management. She even doesn't know anything herself. Read from recorded slides and she even dont know what she say

She does not know anything about Tech project. She will post chapters of a book and you tube videos and make you search the web for homework. Tough grader and unprofessional. Its a waste of time and your money. If you have any other option, please go for because you will be regret. You will be stuck trying to find what to do. unclear instructions.

I found Jinan Darwiche as one of the worst teacher ever teaching Computer science. Her entire class is posting chapters of book and slides with no further instruction. You will have no idea what to do, where to go and what to study. there are no instructions on doing homework and when you submit, you get 1 out of 10 or the most 3 for no reason.

I knew python before taking this. Get Python Crash Course by Eric M. That will teach you everything you need to know, better than she ever could. Exams are not clear, numerous numerous typos on her assignments that leave you scratching your head about what she wants. No live office hours, you have to schedule it, and she always shows up late. AVOID

Darwiche should not be allowed to teach a Python class because she has little actual experience in it. All of her course materials are taken from presentations posted on the web by other professors at other universities. She continually belittled the students, and could not answer questions pertaining to coding. Her classes are pre-recorded videos.

The worst instructor I've had all time... She wants you to fail her course not pass it...

The course content is pretty good but that's where the good ends. The quiz and tests have coding questions that have you coding answers into a text box. You cannot use an IDE to debug your code so you have memorize all the syntax. The tests have a short timer which is hectic cause you will be rushed into giving an answer. I dropped the class.

The course is artificially made harder by too little time given for tests, restricting the use of IDEs, & locking tests after they're taken so you can't study the materials w/o meeting with her during office hours. Correct solutions are wrong if they don't exactly match the examples she gives. Grading is correct/incorrect w/o partial points given.

Subject material is great. Very hard to learn the material from pre-recorded lectures and the book doesn't match the lectures. You get feed back on the coding exercises and tests but there should be some open forum to discuss as I think a lot of errors get carried through the course. Tough way to learn with no guidance.

This professor does not care about whether the student is learning, if they are inspired, and if they enjoy the material - rather cares much more about preventing cheating, and testing. I loved all previous CS classes. This is the one class that made me question whether to go into computer science at all. Avoid at all cost!

Quizzes and tests are difficult, must memorize code and prof's code style/format, no IDE, proctored. Material is the same from previous semesters with little changes. Material lacks rich-content. 3 recorded lectures, the rest are PDFs and links. You pay for this class just to be told that you should know how to teach yourself. Ironic.

Claims in syllabus you aren't "on your own", yet gives little instruction with unclear assignments. Results of tests are always hidden, so students won't even know what they did wrong, or have the ability to target their study for tests. Tests are riddled with typos, leading to impossible questions. Tests contain subjective questions or language.

She lacks clear instructions & makes frequent typos. Her poor grammar complicates understanding. Students have to find outside material for HW, criticize us despite lacking clear guidelines, & then demand revisions. Despite heavily preaching technical writing, she sets an extremely poor example. Increased self-awareness could improve her teaching.

Takes off points for missed punctuation, but also writes extremely vague test questions. She proctors her tests so that, if you are booted from Proctorio for any reason, you cannot re-enter, which is against school policy. If you want to avoid stress, do anything you can to avoid taking her.

Does not cover topic and does not provide lectures, only slides that are from past lectures. Content is out-dated.

Inadequate lesson materials, ambiguous exam answers, and factually incorrect material littered throughout class materials. She will mark you wrong on impossibly worded questions and blame you for it. Has an lazy, amateurish grasp on actual coding. If you want to learn Python the right way, any other option is preferable. Darwiche is unqualified.

This Professor made coding my least favorite subject and I will never take a computer class again. I was accused of cheating when I didn't. Also wasn't given clear directions when confused. It's Computer Science 3 not 3000. Not everyone knows how to use Python.

Instructor Darwiche is nice but focuses more on test scores and preventing cheating than helping students understand the material. Exams are confusing by design, as she admitted wanting to scare students into studying. Avoid if possible if you're focused on learning. Her grading is too subjective to take seriously.

She's the worst professor I've ever had. She can't teach you anything at all, but she set a lot of quize and the time is very tight. It's all on your own.

She has failed the entire class over suspicion of cheating, the only reason she has given us for this suspicion is "mouth movement".

Failed our tests over suspicion of cheating; the reason she gave us was due to "mouth movement". When asked to reevaluate due to unfair standards, she gave out ultimatum of just do well enough for the rest of the semester.