Graded only only on diffecult group labs that are build on one another. Gave many extensions. TAs don't help at all. The only help we got was from Burk and Tianle on piazza. They need to get this guy on the teaching staff for this course fr. He actually knows his stuff.

Kevin is super sweet, he always stayed overtime during section/office hours to help. The labs were difficult, and the fact that the TAs did not help made it worse. None of them ever truly helped during office hours or Piazza (except one ULA). A person who was actually taking the class was much more helpful.

This class is group lab based, you will get an A if you do well on the labs. Kevin is always super helpful and caring and nice and smart and understanding and stay late in section and OH to help. BUT the TAs are not helpful... especially jason li. he started not coming to office hour and section in-person just to avoid helping other people....

Kevin Burk is an amazing prof open to helping and extremely passionate. But If I had one thing to say, some of his TAs were quite useless. One in particular was Jason Li; he did not provide any useful advice when it came to coding. He would host Zooms remotely but I had seen him in person just an hour later. Strange, isn't it? -3 stars for Jason

He was always very nice and willing to help anyone stuck on the projects. However, the labs while working in groups made it very difficult. He pushed deadlines but most struggled to finish on time or at all. The game project was pretty fun and easy though. Lectures were unrelated to the labs. TAs were useless on piazza and during section.

Best prof ever. Super enthusiastic and engaging. I've never learned more from a class. Also had him for cs32 and he was great.

Be ready to grind the labs and that's it! Go to office hours and Kevin is always really helpful! Gives a ton of extra credit so don't worry about your letter grade!

G.O.A.T. Take him if you can you won't regret it. Labs can be hard but are definitely doable. Will learn a lot! Teaches you to be a real programmer.

Kevin is my favorite instructor at UCSB by far, he's so caring and is eager to help his students. He even stayed until 9pm one time during section to help our group debug. I learnt a lot from his class, you need to be on top of the assignments to be able to complete them but if you attend office hours and get help, you will be fine.

Burk is an incredible professor, def one of my top 3 at UCSB. His style is unconventional but I really like it; I enjoy coding and feel like the assignments teach me a lot. I also do like his lectures; if you actually try to follow what he is doing they are very useful. He's such a cool guy and very approachable. It's sad how much people complain.

Professor Burk is really nice and is always accessible during labs and office hours. This class was graded on projects only and they are hard. But by going to office hours and labs, they are doable. He often extend the deadlines. People give bad ratings because they stress about their grades in this class but he gives a really good curve.

Worst professor ever. Avoid him at all costs. Graded only by 8 group projects that are ridiculously hard and have completely nothing to do with what is taught in the lecture. Though they are group projects it is almost impossible to divide the work. The latter group project is based on the previous one.

Class is only graded by group projects that are unfairly difficult. Expect to have very little free time. The work requires every member to be on top of things. If one falls off, so does your grade. His lectures give 0 help for the projects so you have to go to office hours.

I had to spend 20 hours a week to finish his aasignment. Everyone in the class came to office hours to ask questions and had to wait 1 hour before asking questions. The content of assignments were hardly related to the material taught during lectures.

only rated 4 bc projects were a little too ez

This is the greatest class ever! Spending over 15 hours a week. Class consist of two large group projects with no starter code. No "homework" (besides the full time job you'll receive) or tests at least :D! Lectures have little relation to the labs, and everything piles up week after week if you do not finish as they are related. Highly recommend!

I had him for CS24 and having him for CS32 is so much worse. The assignments are so much more complicated and have 0 starter code for where to start. All of the assignments build off each other so if you can't do it one week you're screwed. You're going to spend days working on the code and working in groups just makes it that much harder.

If you get Burk you got to live and breathe code. Like I have little to no free time because I'm just spending the day coding and debugging. It's hard to balance with other classes. Burk is a nice person who cares about his students, but lectures don't really help with the intense projects that you're implementing in the labs.

I thought because I survived cs24 with him, I could survive cs32, but the projects we are being assigned are the most ridiculous things I have ever done in my life. Me and my group members are working them like FULL TIME JOBS and still not finishing at all or on time. He has not taught me a single thing in two quarters except that I hate CS.

With Burke, you're only graded on 9 labs. Show up to class, there are no lecture post. If you miss one you better hope your friend took good notes. Piazza is also a good resource when ever you get stuck on a lab. And oh ya, you're competing for extra credit. Only the top 5 most efficient code gets ec. You probably don't need the credit tho. do labs

Class graded on 9 labs. Labs were simple at first but got a lot harder in the middle of the quarter, but the last 2 challenge labs were surprisingly easy. His lectures were not helpful since he used a chalkboard for everything. He also had 0 resources to help his students, besides Piazza which he would sometimes ignore and give rude replies.

To be honest, he is fine, not that bad at all. He is nice, helpful, and supportive. As previous comments said, the class is graded by only labs. You can't wait until the last minute to start the labs, and that's why I think many other students get frustrated. The labs aren't that hard as well, although it's time-consuming.

The 10 labs that you're solely graded on are either so hard you spend DAYS straight doing them, or so easy that you knock them out in like two hours. The lectures are kind of useless but interesting and lab instructions are really lacking, but the labs really force you to learn. He reopened all the labs at the end of the quarter for resubmission.

Only graded by labs, the first few were super easy but the last few were so difficult that at one point I cried in the library and thought about switching my major. You will learn a ton in this class and come out of it a much better programmer. For the labs START EARLY and ABUSE PIAZZA! Check out Burk's github for past labs for reference