I took this class with Katie Hannibal and I could not in good faith recommend it to anyone. The most frustrating part of the class was the unclear instructions from the TA regarding the labs and the final project. I visited office hours multiple times to clarify what I would need to do when submitting assignments and get a better grade, but when it came to grading I would get marked off of what I was told to do during office hours. Regarding grading, in a six-week session, we would get our labs back two weeks after we submitted them, however, there were multiple times when something would be taught in week 4 for example but we'd get marked off in our week two lab when we did not even learn the material yet.

This was a horrible class. Please avoid the TA Katie Hannibal if you can. She has been the worst TA that I have had and is extremely condescending if you ask her for anything (like she wont give you feedback or help bc doing her job is hard). The course is graded off of 5 labs and a final project, each worth a large percentage of your grade. The average for these labs was about a 70%. Our TA would take off points for anything from wrong color font, to adding too much detail. She graded our week 2 lab in week 5 but then was upset you didn't incorporate the previous feedback. She would also randomly skip lab sessions without notifying us. The professor then defended the TA when the concerns were brought up by many people and then explained that "we just don't think you can keep up with the expectations from before covid." implying that we were incompetent, when the points taken off were not outlined in the syllabus. The grading was so entirely arbitrary, which was the most disheartening part. I respect and liked Kane as a professor for 109, but she did not have the time to dedicate to 109L. This was shown by the zero office hours offered by the prof, and the TA, and the complete refusal to answer emails. Please avoid taking this class over the summer, but especially avoid katie:)