He just writes and reads through the examples in the textbook during lectures. So it's like leading you to read the textbook during lecture times. The exams are pretty fair. They're similar to the practice ones; everything was covered during the class and homework. You will get an A if you know each question on the practice exam.

Overall a very poor teacher. Clearly not interested in teaching, which is fine but it spilled into him having little effort into his lectures. He very poorly communicated with the TA as well, leading to almost useless sections that added to more confusion on the content in the class. Homework was also incredibly difficult, and diverged from lecture

This guy doesn't know how to teach. Paul's Online Math Note is significantly more helpful and efficient.

i love physics so much after this class (please tell someone that he needs to actually care about the class i think i lost half my lifespan)

There has gotta be some kind of lecture workshop they can put new professors through so this doesn't happen. Class felt incredibly unorganized, even by UCSB standards. Sung seems like a nice guy but your true professor will be named Paul and his lectures are found on Paul's Online Math Notes. Good luck.

He has bad lectures where he mumbles and writes notes without explaining. Even when asked to explain, he answers questions the answers are vague and full of advanced math terms which makes it difficult to understand without knowing the topics. Also, the homework is often very difficult and requires much more work than examples found in lecture

Choose this prof when you want to fail the class.

can't stop teaching physics during math class

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.