Alka Harriger - Purdue University - West Lafayette

Professor: Alka Harriger
Department: Computer & Informational Tech.
College: Purdue University - West Lafayette
Rating # 1
Overview:
  • Course: CIT255
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
She is awful. DO NOT take her classes PLEASE. She can mess up with her research if she has one, but she can not ruin the students. I wish I could give 0 points here.
Rating # 2
Overview:
  • Course: CNIT255
  • Grade Received: C-
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
I had Alka for CNIT 255. It was the most difficult class, not because the material was hard (it actually was pretty easy), but because she did not care about her students success. She is a very egotistic person and does not like questions. Everything she teaches is outdated which you will learn once getting an internship.
Rating # 3
Overview:
  • Course: CNIT25501
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Alka Harriger is a teacher that does not care about how her students perform. The labs and homeworks are easy, but beware the lab exams and written exams. Lab exams have you write basically everything you've written in seven lab periods in one lab period. About 910 of the people do not finish or get close to finishing. Written exams are tricky.
Rating # 4
Overview:
  • Course: CNIT255
  • Grade Received: C
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
By far my hardest CNIT class simply because she doesn't teach at all. It's sad because I really do enjoy C# and wished that I could've gotten more out of this class.
Rating # 5
Overview:
  • Course: CNIT255
  • Grade Received: B+
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: Yes
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Poor excuse for a higher-ed teacher, devalues my degree.
Rating # 6
Overview:
  • Course: CNIT255
  • Grade Received: C
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
To be completely honest, her grading in terms of labs/exams can be harsh but people need to understand that if you make time with her she WILL help you. I quite frankly deserved an F but because of my dedication I rose to a C. This class is NOT impossible I had literally zero programming experience and still believe I could've done much better.
Rating # 7
Overview:
  • Course: CNIT255
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Pretty useless class and professor.
Rating # 8
Overview:
  • Course: CNIT255
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 3.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Professor Harriger might be a nice person outside of the classroom, but I am not a fan on the way she taught and organized this class. Wasn't helpful when asked for help, and was often unclear about assignment specs. Very inconsistent as well, her quiz and exam questions were often confusing. Learn programming concepts well before taking her class.
Rating # 9
Overview:
  • Course: CNIT255
  • 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:
Messes up her quiz questions, sometimes her own code, gives participation points alongside with attendance quizzes, only gave 1:30 hours to complete the final exam instead of 2 because of she just felt like doing so. Just terrible.
Rating # 10
Overview:
  • Course: CNIT255
  • 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:
Honestly, if you ever find out you are about to have Harriger for a teacher, kiss your good grades goodbye. She can't teach the material at all, messes up horribly on Lab Exams, like so badly that they don't even work, and you have points taken away from that. Quizzes are all trick questions, and she is so unhelpful. Wish i was kidding about this.
Rating # 11
Overview:
  • Course: CNIT256
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Her assignments are very unclear and will cause you to lose points because her lack of clarity.She gets her OWN quizzes wrong and expects us not too.  Messed up her own lab exam so bad that she had to turn it into a take home a exam?that?s how bad it was. On her first lecture exam there were more F?s?then A?s-D?s COMBINED
Rating # 12
Overview:
  • Course: CNIT255
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Read below first..Her assignments are very unclear and will cause you to lose points because her lack of clarity.She gets her OWN quizzes wrong and expects us not too. Messed up her own lab exam so bad that she had to turn it into a take home a exam?that?s how bad it was. On her first lecture exam there were more F?s?then A?s-D?s COMBINED?.
Rating # 13
Overview:
  • Course: CNIT255
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
*CONTINUED FROM ABOVE* Her assignments are very unclear and will cause you to lose points because her lack of clarity.She gets her OWN quizzes wrong and expects us not too. Messed up her own lab exam so bad that she had to turn it into a take home a exam?that?s how bad it was. On her first lecture exam there were more F?s?then A?s-D?s COMBINED?.
Rating # 14
Overview:
  • Course: CNIT255
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.0
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Thinks her students are dumb. Funny thing too. She insist to think because she ?Co-authored??not wrote as she likes to think, also a book we are forced to buy and purdue publishes, makes her smart. She may be smart but she is a horrible teacher. She doesn?t care for any reason for missing class...you miss class you miss points.
Rating # 15
Overview:
  • Course: CNIT255
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 2.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Complete and utter moron. She is hesitant to bring up Visual Studio and code something because she knows she'll screw up. Pretty sure she steals code from Professor Lutes and then puts it into PowerPoint slides and puts her own copyright. **Only reason she is a professor is because she is FEMALE and FOREIGN. Purdue likes diversity even if they suck
Rating # 16
Overview:
  • Course: CIT255
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 1.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Doesn't teach, nor really seem to understand the material all that well. She just uses Professor Lutes notes and tries to ignore student's questions. I have a lot of programming experience so I found the class easy, but if you're a net major or aren't a good programmer already this class could get ugly. TAs just about do the labs for you though
Rating # 17
Overview:
  • Course: CIT255
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 1.5
  • Course Difficulty: 4.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Doesn't teach
Rating # 18
Overview:
  • Course: CIT255
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 3.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Quizzes daily, Labs weekly, massive group project, coding exams, regular exams, final exam, this class is mind blowing for 3 measly credit hours this is the hardest I have ever worked in an undergraduate course. There is also no book so the only help that you can get is from her examples and going in on your own time to get help. I'd avoid her.
Rating # 19
Overview:
  • Course: CPT100
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 2.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Thinks her students are idiots
Rating # 20
Overview:
  • Course: CIT155
  • Grade Received: N/A
  • Overall Rating: 5.0
  • Course Difficulty: 5.0
  • For Credit: N/A
  • Textbook Used: No
  • Would Take Again: N/A
  • Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Hated her in her class, but after getting to know her outside of class I realized how much she will go out of her way to help students. Honestly I learned more in her class than in any other class in CIT. Her class is hard but she does a lot to help you prepare for it.
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