This was the absolute worst instructor i have ever had! I asked for help many times and she just basically told me to get a tutor. She brought my self esteem down greatly when she poked fun at my very low grade. She caused me to drop out because she just wouldnt help me. Dont take the ****!

With a teaching style that can only be described as "very lacking," Dr Dare manages to present potentially interesting topics in the driest way possible, all the while utterly failing to draw any connections to other material or presenting any use for the information.

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She made me wanna cry with her tests I hated this class!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow. Dr. Dare represents all that is wrong with CS at Truman State. She is closed-minded and feels threatened by change. She constantly overreacts, has a squealy voice, and barely knows anything about the subject. Most notably, she can talk for longer and yet convey less actual information than anyone I have ever met in my life. DO NOT EVER TAKE.

A HORRIBLE teacher. How am I supposed to learn from the most boring professor ever who barely knows anything about the subject? Do NOT ever take her!

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Avoid at all costs. The WORST TEACHER I'VE EVER HAD. Her lectures are aweful. The homework and programs are way too much work. And the tests are brutal. I wish she would retire.

She was definitely the worst professor I have ever had, and I used to go to a community college. Her lectures go all over the place and she assumes that you know alot about programming, so don't take her if you dont have alot of programming experience. Also, she isn't helpful at all. Further into the class she says you should be able to do that

Her programs take way too long, including the tests. Her test questions take way too long. Even if you go to her office hours and go over the test, she goes fast and doesn't help a lot. HW assignments were dumb because she has specific answers to them, and her tutors grade them without the answer key.

This was the worst. Her programs are long and the homework had no clarity at all from the textbook and her graders had to grade them without the answer key and grade a week after they are turned in along with getting the answer key. Her tests were long (coding part). She expects you to read alot from the book, but goes out of order.

Dare-Halma for CS 180 is like shooting yourself in the foot if you A: Didn't take a CS class in highschool that went over basic things B: Can't make most of your time for the class. Her grading is very harsh, as your tests have a test review guide in which you MUST know EVERYTHING. If it correlates with anything, its on there. Bad For Beginners.

I think it says something that the positive reviews all have negative user reviews whilst negative reviews have positive user reviews. This professor is just awful. Stay away from this class. I recieved an A so I am not just complaining. Her teaching style is godawful. Many people drop out of the major cause of her. Awful role model.

Possibly the worse teacher I've ever had. Her lectures were scattered and confusing and often we ended up off topic. This class claims "no prior programming experience" however this did not feel like the case considering I felt constantly lost despite reading the book and never missing class. Not good for beginning programmers.

The professor is a nightmare. I understand that the professor is merely to show you a path, then you go upon a journey to learn. But when that professor only gives you a hammer and some nails and expects you to build the titanic, that's when I can't respect her. TLDR: She gives you basics, but doesn't help you with anything else. Suicide For Grade

She doesn't really "teach" us. She "shows" us things. She doesn't explain how to use them in certain situations which makes her a poor professor. And she takes great joy in making the tests abnormally difficult.

I've had her for two semesters now. Her lectures consist of showing us various definitions and examples, but not really explaining them. I had to learn most things by religiously examining the textbook and watching videos online. Going to class always felt like a waste of time., but it's required. Expect to be confused every class period.

Very ill prepared and scattered professor. Very often goes off on tangents that don't relate to the class. She does not explain even basic concepts in a way that everyone can understand, and instead writes definitions followed by a poor example. If you don't understand after that you're sol. First test had various students with grades below a 10%

Whatever you doAGREE with her on ALL issues, praise her and tell her she is the greatest, bent the knees and worship her, tell your classmate to worship her also. then maybe, just maybe you might make a B

Be ready to take everything in. She's definitely going to misinterpret the question you ask her and confuse you more. Oh and you have a lot of homework every week. Her tests are very hard and a lot compared to the time!

Her class was mediocre. The quality of content of the book was above average but the things you learn from her range from infinitesimally to absolute zero. Her personal hatred toward bad student is what you need to know. To deal with a chauvinist educator, stay vigilant and keep your head down at the right time.

Terrible at communicating, doesn't understand that some quiz questions take more than a couple of minutes to do. If I had to take her more frequently, I'd probably drop my CS major.

Possibly the worst CS prof here. All quizzes are pop quizzes. Attendance is mandatory even though nobody will learn anything from them. The book is needed to learn anything from the class. She doesnt know how to teach; the lectures only make sense if you already read ahead. 191 is required for CS so USE HER OFFICE HOURS AND READ THE BOOK. AVOID HER

A TONS OF HEAVY READING HOMEWORK AND I have no idea what she is talking about

Quite possibly the worst computer science professor on campus. No explanations. Calls you dumb or insinuates it if you don't understand a concept. Don't take this professor. I changed my major because of her horrid teaching.

Darehalma told me four years ago to quit coding and try another major if her class was too difficult for me. I am now a Software Developer working with a startup with a non-CS degree because I decided to avoid her like the plague. Absolutely my worst experience at this school. Don't take her if you can help it. If you can't, push through.

Completely useless lectures. A lot of homework. Tough grader. She thinks that she is awesome but she has no idea how to teach at all! The WORST professor at Truman! Don't know why Truman still keeps her. Probably they need really bad professors to balance out and she is cheap! I hope she can consider changing her career.

Basically you will be self-taught throughout the whole semester. E-mails are not very helpful. Make sure to read the chapter before taking a quiz.

She is one of the worst professors in Computer Science. This class was fun because of the discussion. However, we had to study EVERYTHING on our own. This class is a LOT of work. We had one quiz and one presentation each week. If there is an option that you can take any other professor, do it!

Absolutely abyssmal professor who should have stayed in a different field besides teaching. She is the sole reason half of a previous class changed their majors. She openly berated students and insulted them without teaching. I passed this class easily with past knowledge of CS from Highschool. Just don't take her. Absolute nightmare.

The worst instructor ever, she should do something else but teaching. Bad pretentious attitude, doesnt want to help and gets mad if someone asks a question. Shes never available during office hours, I bet shes seldom on campus either.

The only professor I've ever had that covers 40% of the actual material in the book but still tests you on 100% of it. She does the simplest examples in class then expects students to teach themselves the rest. Even in class she is rarely able to understand what a student is asking. She's more suited to be a high school teacher than a professor.

This professor was absolutely terrible. Her syllabus had literally nothing but university policy. She then told us she would put the assignments and reading on BlackBoard and stopped updating it after the end of January. There is much more that I do not have the character space for. Just avoid the Computer Science department at Truman at all costs.

NEVER TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. SHE DOES NOT EVEN KNOW TO CROSS THE PROGRAM RUNNING.

She is extremely passive aggressive, has an inflated ego, shows no remorse if you are sick or have emergencies, and sabotaged my grade for no apparent reason.

Professor Dare-Halma knows much in her field and it is evident from her lectures, however she really fails to get across lessons that she deems are too easy to go over. Tough grader but understandably so. I wouldn't recommend this professor to a beginner in CS. She doesn't teach the material well enough for clear comprehension across the board

ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!! Maybe someone believe me or not, she was one of the worst professors that I ever experienced in my entire life. As a professor, she teaches us but she is the one who doesn't know anything. I know it's strange to believe but this is the truth. Very heavy lectures and assignments. The exam is super tough. Never take her classes.

As a Ph.D. prof, she teaches those contents where she herself isn't aware of it. She is confused when teaching and doesn't know the concepts. I mean how can we learn? It's a lot easier to study and understand from youtube rather than from her lectures. Please avoid her classes, you can also see other reviews for more details about her style. AVOID.

In most ectures she will not properly teach a lesson nor take questions, her office hours are faulty, and the tutoring is the only way to learn as she expects you to know items that are outside of rhe course curriculum. She's made several students change their major

Professor regularly went off on tangents without coming back to topic. Was rude whenever students showed lack of knowledge on outside information not studied. Only reason several of us passed was grouping together or tutoring. I learned through YouTube instead of the professor.

Don't take her class ever in your life.

Taking Ruthie Halma's class was one of the worst experience of my life.

Worst professor at Truman. She doesn't know what she is teaching but acts like she knows everything.

How can a professor be such horrible. Never seen anything like this and I am sure I never will. Do NOT TAKE her class. She has 0 knowledge on the subject matter, does not answer your question properly. Definitely does not want student to do good. Attendance was not mandatory and she took pop up quiz when there were few number of students. HORRIBLE!

The professor's satisfaction in student challenges is discouraging.

terrible. she is the bane of my existence. I don't think she actually knows what she's teaching us. Everything you learn is on your own. The examples in class are so different from the hw and quizzes. If you want to do good in this class, you better get ChatGPT Plus and be prepared to have no social life studying for the 2-3 quizzes per week.

She's one of the "Tougher Professors" because she doesn't teach. She just forces you to come to class and goes on wild tangents without properly notating what the lesson is. I've been in several of her courses and each one I've dreaded it because I knew it wasn't a class where I'd learn from someone experienced. Learn from Youtube, not Darehalma.

On the first day of class, she warned us that she expects 300-level (higher-level) effort in our essays as college freshmen because she stated that's what she mostly teaches. She was also generally harsher and less understanding than any other professor I had in my first year. The attendance policy is also rough.

i would rather pledge sigep.