Don't take his class. He froze during the lecture wondering about the question he just raised. Every lecture he just simply copies his note with AWFUL handwriting and jumps to the next topics so quickly that he doesn't care if the students understand. He is also awful at explaining almost everything. Better go to Coursera than taking his course.

A great MCDB elective! It would be p difficult for a programming newcomer, but he'll def tone down the difficulty for future sessions of the class. Weekly coding homework assignments, weekly MC quizzes, a MC midterm, and a MC + coding final. Mandatory TA sections. Learned many new and relevant Python packages! Really understanding and caring guy!

Sung Soo is a rare gem in the UCSB MCDB dept and the Dept is lucky it found this man. It was his first time teaching at SB and he did a stellar job. 170 is new, and it took 2 weeks for him to adjust the difficulty, but once he did the class was a blast. I learned a lot, HW counts for a decent chunk of grade, and he rounds all decimals up (.01+)

This was the 1st quarter that MCDB170 was offered.. so our class was kinda the guinea pig. Class was REALLY difficult the first couple weeks, then Prof Kim got our feedback from a midquarter survey and really made the class a lot more doable. Prof Kim is really caring and patient. I learned a lot because I was completely new to programming before.