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Took this class in the Summer of 2020, thinking since it was offered online I could take advantage of my Summer. Big mistake. Professor Ghaforyfard assigns weekly readings of the extremely dense textbook, which most people would think to just be supplemental, but no: if you don't do the readings, you will be instantly lost in what is going on. Also, due to her Electrical Engineering background, she will go on extremely long tangents about things that don't help at all, and if anything just further confuse you. Classes were very boring. As far as the labs go, the bomb lab is the most time-consuming but atleast you may actually learn how to do that one from class. The attack and malloc labs, on the other hand, were near impossible with the lackluster lectures (especially the malloc lab). Oh and the tests are anything but easy. Seriously just take this class with another professor.
Professor Ghaforyfard tries hard in her lectures, but she is not too good at explaining concepts. During summer, we didn't cover anything about floating points because she just didn't have enough time. The projects are standard CS33 projects and the slides are the standard CS33 slides. Our final was ridiculously hard, she tested a bunch of 32-bit questions when our class was mainly focused on 64-bit the whole quarter. In the end, I feel like everyone did pretty badly, so she curved the whole class and almost everyone I knew got an A or A+.
Overall, she is not very good at explaining, but she was pretty easy of a grader, so I still think you can take her, but just a lot of self studying required.
Took this class in the Summer of 2020, thinking since it was offered online I could take advantage of my Summer. Big mistake. Professor Ghaforyfard assigns weekly readings of the extremely dense textbook, which most people would think to just be supplemental, but no: if you don't do the readings, you will be instantly lost in what is going on. Also, due to her Electrical Engineering background, she will go on extremely long tangents about things that don't help at all, and if anything just further confuse you. Classes were very boring. As far as the labs go, the bomb lab is the most time-consuming but atleast you may actually learn how to do that one from class. The attack and malloc labs, on the other hand, were near impossible with the lackluster lectures (especially the malloc lab). Oh and the tests are anything but easy. Seriously just take this class with another professor.
Professor Ghaforyfard tries hard in her lectures, but she is not too good at explaining concepts. During summer, we didn't cover anything about floating points because she just didn't have enough time. The projects are standard CS33 projects and the slides are the standard CS33 slides. Our final was ridiculously hard, she tested a bunch of 32-bit questions when our class was mainly focused on 64-bit the whole quarter. In the end, I feel like everyone did pretty badly, so she curved the whole class and almost everyone I knew got an A or A+.
Overall, she is not very good at explaining, but she was pretty easy of a grader, so I still think you can take her, but just a lot of self studying required.
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