Judy Walters

If anyone is reading this, especially a CS major, be warned...

Prof Walters, or "Judy" as most simply call her, is one of the most incompetent professors at North Central; actually, probably anywhere. While I am sure she is a fair C (no OOP/C++) Unix programmer, she is incapable of communicating the knowledge. Her classes are also very easy, conceptually. Her 161 class currently has learned less than half the curriculum that sections taught by other professors. Also, anything new confuses her...ie the Windows Start Menu, logging into Novell client, et al.

She also derides students in class for giving the wrong answer, though she herself makes an average of 20-30 phenomenally idiotic mistakes every lecture. She sputters when she talks, interrupting her own thoughts. Incapable of forming a sentence, she is one of the most dispeptic nimwits I have ever had the displeasure of dealing with.

If you are a CS major with any pre-NCC programming experience (in other words, you know what you are doing) you especially must avoid Judy.

[associated word of warning: you will not learn much meaningful "back-end" fundamental coding in her 161 class...you will spend most of your time figuring out why gotoxy() isn't putting an ASCII smiley face where you want it. You will be utterly unprepared for 306, especially if you have Muganda or St. Clair.]

She uses non-industry standard bracing styles, doesn't understand modern technology or proper methodology for OOP programming. She has also given out incorrect code, even impossible code (passing 3 parameters to a function that takes two, for example) to other students, which I have then had to help them debug. Rumor has it she even failed a quiz given by a new professor during a section she was auditing!

She also uses a piece of legacy code she calls a compiler...Borland Turbo C++ 4.5. Yes, you are using a buggy Win16 app (no longer even officially supported in the NCC network) on Win32 systems to build console applications using proprietary output formatting commands. Oh, and, did I mention, TCW has documented problems dealing with classes (including anything in the cout, cin, and especially fstream classes), and also has memory writing problems that causes it to write over system memory when using large arrays. I don't think Judy would know MS Visual C++, DJGPP, or even Borland Builder if one of them bit her. I find it hard to believe she knows what gcc is, and still loves Borland...maybe the whole Unix programming thing is a load of BS.

Don't expect to do well in her class if you are a half way decent programmer, unless you have an iron will. Otherwise, you will probably just stop going to class out of frustration, maybe even stop writing your programs.

Her only saving graces, that prevents me from giving her an F, is her decent programming abilities, and the fact that occasionally (once every couple weeks), she throws out a fragment of very practical, useful code that is not part of the curriculum, per se.