Professor
Ernest Ryu
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Most Helpful Review
Winter 2017 - Frankly, I really enjoyed this class. I'm a cog-sci major and am going to specialize in programming (but am not a "math wiz" so to speak) and I found Ryu's teaching to be very manageable and fair. When I was in this class, the lectures were BruinCast since they were 8 AMs and he said that he hated 8 AMs too when he was in college. The lectures build up on themselves and as long as you keep up with the homework and the slides, you should be fine. However, you MUST do your own work. It's okay to google how to do a homework problem if you are absolutely lost, but Ryu responds within hours on the CCLE discussion board. So if you have a question, he's always there to answer. The class is graded on a curve, so even though I got lazy with finishing some of the homeworks and not doing as well on the final as I had on the midterm, I got a B+. I also never went to lecture or discussion (discussion is definitely pointless unless you really need the help). I felt that the midterm and final were fair; they tested your critical thinking more than anything else, which is what programming is essentially all about. I tend to prefer that over memorization. Overall, would take again.
Winter 2017 - Frankly, I really enjoyed this class. I'm a cog-sci major and am going to specialize in programming (but am not a "math wiz" so to speak) and I found Ryu's teaching to be very manageable and fair. When I was in this class, the lectures were BruinCast since they were 8 AMs and he said that he hated 8 AMs too when he was in college. The lectures build up on themselves and as long as you keep up with the homework and the slides, you should be fine. However, you MUST do your own work. It's okay to google how to do a homework problem if you are absolutely lost, but Ryu responds within hours on the CCLE discussion board. So if you have a question, he's always there to answer. The class is graded on a curve, so even though I got lazy with finishing some of the homeworks and not doing as well on the final as I had on the midterm, I got a B+. I also never went to lecture or discussion (discussion is definitely pointless unless you really need the help). I felt that the midterm and final were fair; they tested your critical thinking more than anything else, which is what programming is essentially all about. I tend to prefer that over memorization. Overall, would take again.
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