Horrid grading policy (A day late -50%) & doesn't grade any work on top of that, uses scripts instead that is unreliable (it's possible to get 100% of the work right and get an F), requires turning in work using UNIX, example code in lecture slides are incorrect. They don't let you share code with students. Doesn't lecture, just recordings.

Larissa is very unorganized. In her lectures she just reads off her canvas slides, which are not very helpful. Our tests are very poorly designed, nearly everyone failed the first midterm due to the terrible structure. The material isn't insanely difficult, and I've learned everything that I should have learned in the class from YouTube videos.

Despite this being an introductory Python course, the professor fails to introduce most topics yet puts them in the PAs. When asking her for help she does not provide any useful insight and tells students to refer to grading rubrics that are unclear. It is very hard to get 100% on assignments due to her flawed grading scripts.

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS IF YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO LEARN PYTHON. This is by far the worst class I have taken at UCSC. Her lectures are a joke and are all prerecorded. Exams are formatted extremely poorly and contain numerous syntax errors making them very unclear.

She's a nice person. But the PAs she assigned to us is very unclear. I have to guess what she wants us to do in the PA. After she notices the confusion part, she will change the instruction for this PA, so I have to waste my time to make correction on my PAs. The test scripts she gave us are also full of mistakes. I wasted much time for her mistake

I just don't think Munishkina is a great teacher nor was she prepared to teach this class. This class is just much more difficult and stressful than it needs to be. Instructions are unclear and our own exams have errors and are poorly formatted. Programming Assignment instructions were ambiguous and overcomplicated the task at hand.

Probably the worst professor I've had so far at UC Santa Cruz. If you want to actually learn python take this class with a different professor.

Worst CS class I've seen at any level (intro, advanced, etc.). Lazy grading that does not work, concepts not taught well. Should avoid teaching in the future unless there are serious changes made to the grading system and content.

The midterms were botched and the PA instructions were always unclear. She does not teach or show any examples during lecture. The slides are pre recorded and we just watch them with her during class. I dropped because I didnt think taking the class with her was worth it compared to the other amazing professors who teach python.

She's not prepare to teach this class, the worst class I took so far in 4 years.

The professor is incredibly disorganized and will dock points if you have similar code to other students. It's honestly very ridiculous due to the fact that everyone is taught the same way by the same person with little to no guidance on the assignments. Do yourself a favor and stay away from taking a course from this lousy professor. not worth it.

Theres like a million little assignments in this class. Discussions, sections, labs, programming assignments, quizzes, video lecture Q&As, etc. its disorganized and easy to lose track of. Theres also like 15 TAs in this class, who are all impossible to get help from and equally as disorganized. Take with someone else. Accent hard to understand.

Mandatory sections, labs absolutely suck and assignments are difficult. Final sucks. She is not a good teacher. If you come from a CS background, you can manage, if you don't, I hope you have a serious interest in python.

Have to say I thought I was doing great in her class until the last 2 weeks. Final was one of the hardest exams I have ever taken and her quizzes are not even close to level she teaches at or gives homework at. Would not recommend taken her for CSE20. Also very hard to understand.

i have not taken her class but i did tutor and its the most disorganized mess ever she does not reply to emails and misses her own office hours with no warning, does not teach any of the material that you need to know for cse30 or anything else, teaches objectively BAD coding practices, and has very vague instructions and more but word limit

Says attendance isn't mandatory then 25% of your grade is determined by attendance. Doesn't grade until the last possible moment. Had a 92% going into the final and found out I ended with a 70% in the class because of mountains of ungraded work. All this work was supposedly retake-able, however I did not believe I needed to regarding my 92%

Very difficult to understand because of thicccccc Russian accent. She barely teaches at all, most of my learning was self-done. Grading is a bit harsh, wayyy to much work for a intermediate python course. Most of your grade depends on your coding assignments so be prepared to sit still for 3 hours per assignment just coding and crying.

Lectures are useless. Extremely disappointed with the way she calculated grades. She consistently made mistakes and often gave us incorrect grades. She was not responsive to our concerns and didn't take the time to address the issues we had with her grading. Her excuse was that the grades on canvas are an "approximation".

Useless lectures, don't go. Assignment grades were often inaccurate and required a second pass. Calculated final grades at the end differently than canvas, many students had unexpected final grades. I had an 89.8 on Canvas that was reported as a B. TAs are great and assignments weren't that difficult usually pretty vague. Lots of extra credit.

Thought I was doing okay in the class, then two weeks before the end of the quarter my grade goes from a B to a D- because she waited so long to grade assignments. Lectures were hard to understand and often didn't apply to the version of python she told us to install. This is more or less a self taught class.

Lectures were based completely on slides and weren't the best. Workload was pretty heavy and don't expect to see a grade or a grade change in 2 weeks of submission. She is a harsh teacher that sticks to the rules but she sticks to her syllabus and is honest.

Lectures are confusing, canvas is hard to navigate, information is unclear, assignments often recieve incorrect grades. One assignment was docked 2 points for failing to include a __str__() method within a class, even though it did contain the method. I tried reaching out about the grading error and got no response.

Do not take CSE20 with professor Munishkina especially if you are not a computer science major. None of her lectures had anything to do with the programming assignments or labs and she is not accessable outside of class. Labs were the only part of the class that I learned anything from but they did not help much with other assignments.

Laboratories and programming assignments are virtually always marked wrongly, resulting in a letter grade lower than expected. The lectures are really boring and will make you dislike Python. To be fair, she does grant a lot of additional credit, so if you use it, you can succeed, but class felt unorganized.

Munishkina is a nice person but in terms of teaching she teaches from a copy and paste from 10 years ago. The programming assignments are graded by a sort of algorithm none of the students have access to so they can be very hit or miss. Will respond to emails in 2 to 3 business days.

HORRIBLE! HORRIBLE! DO NOT TAKE. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. LOTS AND LOTS OF WORK, AND NOT CLEAR GRADING CRITERIA. SHE IS NOT VERY UPDATE WITH HER TA'S AND UNCLEAR COMMUNICATION. Also heavy accent I cannot understand her lectures.

Don't take the class online. She speaks in a slow and monotone voice on top of a heavy accent (even watching recordings on x2 speed won't save you). The coursework is outdated and the TAs are also out of the loop with why her selected answers are correct (one of them even told me to use Chat GPT to solve one of the labs).

You could also just burn your tuition.

Do not take her class if you are a beginner. Her classes are all lecture heavy and provide no help. Many of her assignments include topics that were never taught. TA hours, office hours, and tutoring are the most helpful. She teaches vague concepts and then assigns work that is much more detailed than what is taught.

Munishkina has a heavy accent and a monotone voice (no fault of her own) that make already dry lectures insufferable. If you are already proficient in the basics, this class is easy and you should be able to skip lectures. No pop quizzes. No grading script provided and I "failed" two assignments for no apparent reason despite emailing TAs.

Her lectures does not help anybody. The grading of your code is the most difficult part of this class.

This professor is actually the worst professor I have had in my college career. Her content in the class is a week behind to the assignments that are assigned. There are so many assignments at once. She teaches very very basic concepts and expects you to do the most complex labs and PAs. If you're a beginner, do not take her. Not worth it.

I did not like taking CSE20 with her. Her lectures are very boring, and she just reads off the slides. Be wary of the final, since it is nothing like the quizzes you took before. Some of the questions on the final have very little to do with programming and are more like word problems from a puzzle book.

the lectures, although they are "required", are useless. I just used every lecture to do the lab assignments instead. She just reads off the slides every day, which you can do yourself. The lab assignments, posted slides, and google colab are decently helpful, but that's about it. Good luck, start programming assignments early.

Very difficult class for beginner programmers. Too much homework: 2 labs a week, quiz every other week and PA's every other week. Every other week will have 2 labs, quiz, and PA due. Tutors were extremely helpful and had to go to get help every week. Lots of concepts not covered but needed to know for PA's. Lectures useless for PA or quizzes.

The professor is not open to working with students for accommodation whatsoever. Extremely work-heavy, and lectures tend to ramble from topic. Offers extra credit but how small the amount of point being offered is compared to the work to get them good luck. TA's are the only part that make this class bearable.

TA's do everything. Don't expect much from her.

The assignments are fairly borked, often having question fields without questions, topics we haven't touched on, limited explanation, and poor auto-grading scripts. This could be okay, but in both CSE 20 and 30, the TAs seem disinterested and won't help you much, so you're fairly on your own. If you can do an online class, take the other teacher.

Lecturers are not useful and don't offer much help to the already preexisting learning program she makes you enroll in. Assignment grading is also very vague. This includes online assignments, hard to tell what is actually necessary to complete.

The grading for most of the assignments is very unclear. She is hard to reach outside of lecture hours and the TA's do a majority of the work. The lectures are basically pointless as most of things covered within lecture can be found on the online textbooks we use.

Dude, she can't teach. I promise you, don't take this class.

Lectures are useless; she reads off slides. The grading scripts she provides can be a nightmare (especially for PA4). For PA4, I went to office hours regarding her evaluation script, and she didn't have a good answer for me. ZyBooks is your friend. All tests are open-note, IDEs are allowed. They are very easy. Don't recommend the class at all.

Horrible, try Oswald.

Lectures are useless, all learning is self taught. She was teaching material in lecture 1-2 weeks AFTER the assignment was due. Very unclear about grading, programming assignments were almost always graded incorrectly. If your teacher assistants aren't willing to help you then you won't pass. Curved everyone's grade DOWN end of Fall2022.

Lectures are boring and occasionally inspire memes about her circular explanations. More work than half the CS classes; even did some stuff from CSE 101. Labs are always ahead of lectures and touch on advanced stuff like lambda calculus, eigenvalues, objective functions, and star polygons (???), but were helpful for learning advanced Python.

Unfortunately, I had to take her since all my other CSE 20 classes were taken, and she was just a terrible professor overall. She has a bit of a thick accent, so it was a little hard to follow her lectures during class time, and she isn't really great with answering questions. She's also a little hard to make a connection with as a student.

Terrible lecturer, no value in attending classes tbh. I got by with ZyBooks and going to tutor/discussion sections for PAs. She does offer a LOT of pretty easy extra credit though, very easy to get an A you just won't learn much. If this isn't required for your major I'd recommend finding a comprehensive intro to python video on YouTube instead.

If you want to be taught anything, don't take this class, you will be forced to learn everything on ur own as her lectures are so terrible and it's pretty much impossible to understand her. Homework is pretty easy and all due at the end of the quarter, as well as online tests with no final, just an easy A even if you don't show up to class.