She reads off the slides moderately fast with an accent that is slightly difficult to understand (the words kind of blend together). I stopped attending lectures after the first two weeks because going to class was not helping me whatsoever. She posts the slides online, your best bet is to self-teach yourself with those. Luckily my TA (Jason Brown) was much better than the professor and really, really helpful, but if you're taking Zhang please make sure you have a good TA.

The midterm was really easy and covered easy topics, but the final was very difficult and confusing. It was mostly topics we covered after the midterm (in around 3 weeks) and I don't think anyone was adequately prepared.

I also don't recommend taking Zhang if you're a complete beginner to programming ~ I don't know if I could've kept up with the class if I didn't take AP CSA or was a beginner to programming. The assignments for this class are due at 5 pm, so aim to finish them the day before so you have time to go to the PIC Lab and check if they compile on Windows (if you have a Mac). Definitely attend discussion sections and ask your TA if you have any questions, the professor isn't much help ~ I don't know if she understands our questions 😭