Caroline Kierstead - University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

Professor: Caroline Kierstead

Department: Computer Science

College: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: CS247
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Poorly organized and never helpful. Assignments were almost continuously in flux, took ages to be returned, and were often marked incorrectly when returned. Exams had numerous problems that gave an explicit guideline and then took marks off for complying. Do not take a course with this professor unless you are forced to. It's not worth it.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: CS247
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Horribly disorganized assignments, an outdated and strange outlook on security against other coders working with your code and the inability to see when she messed up in created said assignments.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: CS246
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Not in her section but her office hours were open to all students and she was extremely helpful. There are lots of frustration about CS246 (the amount of new stuff introduced and the amount of time the assignments take, borderline unreasonable midterms), how overall she is a very nice woman if you go to her office hours.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: CS246
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

She's really not a great prof. Her piazza posts compelled me to come here and rate her a 1. She can't design psets, so make sure you have your eyes glued to piazza as she slowly reveals the proper specifications in obfuscated language.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: CS246
• Grade Received: B
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Very mean, didn't let me sleep in morning class. But overall, she's good at coding

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: CS246
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

worst prof ever!!!!!

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: CS246
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

She's an excellent prof, understood material well, gave class many breaks, explained things clearly. The course is hard, the professor is good.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: CS246
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Ugh. She is terrible. Seriously, just a horrible prof, how the hell is she allowed to teach an important class like cs246. Having her and Toman this term was mind-blowing, they damage waterloo's reputation and it sucks so much...

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: CS246
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Does not care. Does not care. Does. not. care. If you need help on assignments or on expanding course content beyond the slides she reads verbatim in class, she is insulted by your presence in her office. She's hard to avoid for this course, but if you can, take it with someone else. She should not be teaching.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: CS246
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

one of the worser cs professor I've ever had, annoyingly obnoxious, her class is boring and useless

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: CS246
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

One of the more interesting CS profs I had. She was eagered to help whenever I had a question, but the assignment for the course was somewhat time consuming (but not difficult), tho this is not her problem.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: CS246
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Bad attitude towards students. She thinks of us like we're a bunch of crap. She comes up with the most ridiculous assignments. A total failure.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: CS133
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

She takes some getting useful however she knows her stuff and enjoys when you ask questions in class. Intimidating at first but give her a few classes and you will find that she is extremely helpful.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: CS
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Eats in class but does little else. Very unhelpful and arrogant to students and is not someone I would reccomend.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: CS
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

No Comments

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: CS
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Very sarcastic and arrogant - basically thinks all students are stupid and that everything is a waste of her time. Seems to hate her job, and take it out by making students miserable.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: CS
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Avoid at all cost!!! She sure is one of the worst profs. who turns students away from CS in Waterloo.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: SOMECS
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

No Comments

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: CS343
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

she's great at teaching...whenever she runs out of chips.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: CS246
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Got tired and finished class early on many occasions. She appears to hate her students, her life, and anything that isn't food. Drop her course immediately, along with the 50% of your class who will in the first week. Worst. Prof. Ever.