Watchout - does not even provide a schedule for the class. She does not know her own schedule, or holidays. Does not reply to emails. Does not remember your name or schedule or know anyone in the class. Does not care to meet anyone in the class or know them by name. Does not know how to answer common questions about the class.

Continuing my education in computer science, I've realized how much her class was missing. There are conventions like magic numbers, commenting and white space that she doesn't emphasize/teach well that are CRUCIAL if you ever want to do ANYTHING in this field. You'll think you understand everything, but what she leaves out will hurt you later.

She knows the material, but knowing how to teach the material is a different story. Course wasn't very organized and I don't think she can read the students very well. Even though it's a bit obvious people in class were confused she would just keep moving forward. She was just getting her job done vs actually teaching students. Very dissapointed.

ESL. It is hard to understand her lectures (which are her reading from a ppt). I think she knows the material? but she doesn't understand how to teach it. Java 1 means all students are NEW to Java, but she teaches like we have all been coding for years.

Worst teacher ever. The teacher was extremely disorganised on canvas, and she rarely showed up to her office hours. The majority of our grade was decided based on a midterm that we weren't told about, and I nearly failed the class because I got 50% on it, and almost 100% on everything else. She also lied to me about having another mid term.

Do not take this teacher. Out of all my computer science teachers she is the worst. She tells you what to do, and just sits in front of her computer. She wont answer your questions. She doesn't explain concepts or important concepts in java. Her work is all over the place. Don't lower your gpa with a horrible teacher such as her. AVOID AT ALL COST

Starting to think either Syeda or someone else is writing fake reviews for this instructor in order to make this person look better than they really are at teaching. I repeat do not take this professor until they fix this. You can't have 75% of your class dropped by the end of the quarter and think it's being even taught decent. Does not add up.

Not going to speak to the other reviews here, but I wouldn't retake this teacher for any class. In the beginning, the class was well-structured and an easy A, but then she disappeared for two weeks and didn't talk to us at all or respond to emails quickly. She also made the final hard and unrelated to what she taught.

She never really taught her online class very well and expected you to understand every concept. I literally learned how to program and from the book instead of getting any help from her. She graded extremely harshly as if this was my profession and would not give me advice on what to fix. I would look else where for an entry level CSCI class.

I took Syeda for the online Python class. As others on here have said, she does not know how to pace a course at all. There was a point where she just didn't post assignments for 2 weeks. We were literally still doing chapter 3 stuff by the end of the quarter. If you want to actually learn coding do not take her.

She doesn't even grade your work and can't reply to emails for her life.

The finals 100 questions in 1 hour! Kidding!

Horrible, horrible experience in her online Java 1 class. Not a single grade in the gradebook until FINALS WEEK! Only one video lecture, and basically the rest of the class was just to follow the online course. To top it off, most of the test questions were hardly related to the assigned work. She didn't even hold office hours during finals week.

Way to much information/time to take this info LOW low low efficiency of the course. It is obvious that only few students can answer the questions in class when she is asking something. You gonna not have enough time during the quizes, tests and exams , too many questions.

She is unresponsive and not available. Her videos don't make sense!

I have no clue about coding, and this class has not helped!

Gives problems that try to trick you

Takes way too long to answer emails and her lectures are just taken from the textbook nothing special

Her lectures are really bad, you won't learn much from them. You pretty much have to learn everything by yourself because the lectures are horrendous. She takes a long time to respond to her emails. She also normally starts her zoom class late like it takes her 10-15 minutes into class for her to start teaching. Take another teacher if you can.

Professor rarely answers emails. VERY hard to reach outside of office hours / zoom. Uses Zybooks which is about $60 for reading assignments. You will have to teach yourself the weekly python projects because she never goes over the projects on zoom. For the final exam, familiarize yourself with finding the outputs of 'for-loops'.

It's incredible how little she cares. Emails are sparsely responded to, questions are blatantly ignored, and often she'll cancel or end class early, without having taught much about the topics she's supposed to cover. If you absolutely need her class for credits, just take it and then look for better programming classes elsewhere.

I had a negative experience overall with this professor. The assignments were poorly put together. Often times we were provided with no rubric or explanation for what to do on an assignment. She never grades the work as the quarter progresses, instead she binge grades all the work during the last week. I am not even sure if she checked our work.

I've never had a teacher like this before in my life.She doesn't respond to emails, and she doesn't show up when you schedule zoom meetings with her. I had to contact the head of the computer science department just to get an email back from her. She's also super rude and snobby and has the attitude of a teenager when you call her out. Avoid Her!

She'd send you links that don't work half the time, and the links would just be videos of someone else explaining. If I transferred to a 4 year school, I would not feel at all confident in Java. We were supposed to learn about objects and didn't go over it ONCE. Her class is what you'd expect from someone who just wanted to make some side money.

I took her for C SCI 132. Unfortunately, I have to take her since she's the only professor available, but I'd recommend avoiding her if possible. She is very unclear with her expectations and does not respond to emails. Was often late to class. Did not tell us our final project was individual despite Canvas saying group. AVOID IF POSSIBLE.

Syeda Nizami is one of the worst instructors I've ever had. She's difficult to contact, her courses are confusing to navigate, and her grading is incredibly loose. You'll simply fail an assignment outright if something is wrong, 9 times out of 10. Do yourself a favor, and take Java classes elsewhere.

Just like every other online professor, copies the course, forgets to change due dates, and gives a bunch of decade old whiteboard lecture videos she expects you to learn from. Just gives you an online textbook and gives all the responsibility to the book. Binge grades everything at the end of the quarter so you never know how you are doing.

The first instructor at the college. How she is still here is beyond me. She was never qualified for the job and should have never been allowed to teach. She doesn't have the skills required to teach and lacks knowledge about the subjects she so 'teaches'. Please avoid her at all cost of you will regret it.

It's difficult to understand her and she is never available. She doesn't grade through the semester. She will binge grade everything and her grading seems off. She is not interested in teaching. She takes the money, goes on vacations during the semester and becomes unavailable to her students. She is the worst instructor at Highline.

Truly the worst instructor. Do not recommend

More focused on her social media career (tiktok and instagram) than her teaching career. Avoid her is at all possible or you will struggle. She doesn't mark anything until the very end and doesn't explain concepts probably. She is impossible to get a hold off because she is always on vacation during the semester.

The only instructor I would avoid at all costs. She does not reply to emails the vast majority of the time. Binge grades at quarter's end. She does not give constructive or even helpful feedback on your code. The only feedback I got through two classes came across as extremely rude. Every group partner I had in each class shared these opinions.

Extremely snobby behavior and acts like a teenager. She is exceptionally rude and unavailable. She is unavailable and doesn't care about student's growth. Avoid her if you care about your education and future.

She has no regard for her students development and teaching needs. She isn't avaliable most of the time. Avoid if you can.

I took Syeda's classes on 2 seperate occasions. Both times she went on vacation mid quarter and was actively posting in social media but not responding to emails or attending lectures. Use this as a judgment call on whether to take her class or not.

A lot of self teaching with her...be prepared to use the textbook because the lectures are pretty useless. Feedback isn't very helpful either...

I don't believe she is capable of explain complicated concepts clearly. She sometimes even fails to understand the questions. I took her once and I am done. I will not be taking her classes again.

She was unavalible for long periods of time. I came to find out that she was on vacation during the semester, hence why I struggled to get a response from her in a timely manner. If you are capable to learning on your own, you may do okay in her class. If you are looking for an actual instructor, she is definetly not it.

I don't recommend Syeda at all. I do think it's best to do your due diligence and talk to students in the department and not fully rely on these reviews. You will get a better idea of whether you should take her classes or not.

I just didn't understand her. I don't think she can explain concepts well. I struggled in her class from start to end and had to teach myself.

Had a very terrible experience with Syeda. I don't recommend her to anyone.

I had high hopes and gave her class a benefit of the doubt but I regret it every bit... she struggles to explain concepts and she struggles to understand basic questions. Do no recommend!

Doesn't respond to emails. Only received one message from her across 2 classes and it came across as unnecessarily disrespectful, and she did not respond to my follow-up to the message asking for clarification.

Very immature an incapable of a professor...she isn't very clear or articulated. I struggled to understand her throughout.

I don't think Syeda has the time to teach. She is often unavailable and responds incredibly slow. When I informed her of the turn around time on her responses, she became defensive and incredibly rude and snobby.

This is the first course I have to drop later in the quarter. She doesn't reply to questions and she gives awful feedback. The feedback is a few words long, it doesn't tell you what you need to improve upon. Overall, just a terrible teacher. Don't be like me, never take her.

She seems to be more focused on making money on tiktok than her actual teaching career. She has zero skills or passion for teaching. I struggled to hear back from her and she does not provide constructive feedback on assignments. She has poor vocabulary and that mKes it difficult to understand complicated concepts. I will never take her again.

The worst Insructor I ever taken at Highline college. Avoid at all cost! Lack of communication, won't respond back to emails or canvas message. Lack of material, no guidence on projects/exams, no updates, not follow syllabus change with no announcement! She not a program instructor! Worst part - she the supervisor of the computer science program.

I took her online Java 2 class. Course went through online but only final exam was in-person suddenly changed this quarter, no feedback, lack of communication, grade 3 weeks after the due date, and don't know what she is doing.

She would not grade any work until almost halfway through the quarter. She takes an average of 2-3 days to respond to emails. Constantly cancels assignments and office hours, probably so she has less work to do. The final exam was an auto-graded multiple choice quiz, which is easy to pass, but useless for actually learning. Extremely unprofessional

I would not recommend Syeda to any student wanting to excel in their student career. Syeda lacks the passion, drive, knowledge or even the skill to thoroughly explain complicated concepts. I do not view nor respect her as an instructor. She is also unavailable most days and responds painfully slow. She appears too busy to be teaching.

never responds. grades projects five to eight weeks after they're due. online textbook was difficult to use. i feel like i learned nothing from this class. however, material was easy. professor doesn't use her own videos or materials. never got answers to questions. 2/10 professor. i did well only because material was easy. has no teaching skills.

She is a really nice person but a terrible instructor. She is never available and she takes a very long time to grade so you never know how well you are doing. I do not recommend taking her classes. 1/10

She doesn't respond to emails or canvas messages at all and uses old lectures on top of that. She also uses old assignments for these lectures so if you're assigned a different textbook from when she made these lectures you're out of luck

Horrible horrible horrible instructor. She uses her husbands material (literally signed by her husband who also teaches Java) and WILL NOT RESPOND to ANY messages whether it be email or canvas message. Do yourself a favor and take her husbands class if you actually want to learn and retain the class material. I literally thought I was in his class.

She doesn't teach the courses. She uses her husband's materials and he grades them and responds to emails. She is very rude and hostile in the way she deals with us. Such a terrible and unprofessional teacher. Another teacher does the work and she takes the paychecks. I'll never take her again.

Nizami is the least professional instructor. Coursework isn't hers. Pointless group projects. Weeks to grade assignments with 0 feedback on coding. Doesn't communicate well. Another instructor responds! Took 3wks to finally Zoom to ask coding questions & she was needlessly hostile. Don't waste your $. Learning online is cheaper & far better.

TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE!!! Her husband teaches on her behalf! She can't even hold a proper conversation or understand the questions I was asking her. I would rate her -10/10 ... absolutely terrrrrible teacher!

totally bad instructor. she makes like 80k a year not even teaching properly, absolutely avoid at all costs if you value learning java becuase you wont learn anything from this class

If you want to learn, to use your knowledge in future applications - avoid this professor at all cost. She did not use the correct textbook for the finals - meaning our finals was on the wrong book. She used a platform that held no rigor at all. She does not reply to emails. For our final project - she gave us partners 4 days before due date AVOID

She use the wrong textbook then said to students to do refund by themselves.(I didn't get any refund!) The book cost more than $70. And her responsibility is just pretend that nothing happened and continue teaching with using her old work&video that has been taken for years. Never answer any email. DON'T TAKE HER CLASS.

Literally the worst instructor I have ever had. It seems that her husband, who is also an instructor, responds to the emails, not her. He also does course prep. She does not respond in a timely manner. She waits till the end of the quarter to grade so you never know how you are doing. If you care about your education, take another instructor.

Do not take her! There are better instructors who can better articulate ideas and actually explain difficult concepts. She is a terrible instructor.

Completely unprofessional timing. It takes them too long to grade, I believe they use AI for their assignments. It takes them a week after an assignment to address issues, like information on an assignment or group projects. Group projects are a nightmare with this professor as they cannot get anything done on time.

Do not take her. It takes weeks to actually get an email though to her. Most of the time she seems clueless about what she is actually doing. Her lectures can be years old or even months, lectures that are not even hers and seem to be her husbands. Unclear assignments, and the only real thing that is going to teach you is zybooks.

Beyond unprofessional, lacks passion and skill to teach, used her husband's material, never responds to emails, seems lost and can't converse.

Do not take her unless you don't care about your education. The worst of the worst instructor. Avoid her if you want to get good grades and graduate.

Well, this was basically a class where you paid for the credit. I could have learned all the material from youtube. Instructor never responds to emails unless you CC: her boss. THE WORST

Can't teach, doesn't respond and uses her husband's material. 0/5

This is the worst instructor I've ever had. The quarter started off with her switching textbooks and offering no refund. The course felt highly disorganized and our discussion assignments had nothing to do with what we were learning. She never responded to any of my emails, and the only thing I learned came from the textbook. Don't take her.