Yes, he is clever since he designed subtle algorithms for lab.HOWEVER, instructions for labs are blurred, and useless - the less work done by instructor, the more pain students suffer. Things he taught in lectures were totally different from assignments. This is what we did: go to lecture-learn nothing-spend enormous amount of time self-learning

CS24 2022-2023 Fall: Each week needs a C++ program completed. Clear grading (#functions working)&infinite submissions to check work. Labs are difficult, but fun & logically doable (8-10hrs work/lab). Trust me,they'r'nt insurmountable. He's young (some awkwardness stems from it) but he is EXTREMELY eager to help everyone. Rely on him for ANYTHING.

There is one lab per week, no midterm or final. Labs themselves take 3-4 hours to complete, and you can get a lot of help on them by going to the sections/office hours. He also provides very quick responses to questions posted on Piazza. If you have a background in coding, the labs are not too difficult. Overall a very chill class.

very bad professor, AVOID AT ALL COST

super hard labs with vague descriptions and little instructions

DO NOT TAKE HIS CLASS!!! RUN!!! No teachings at all and assignments are insanely difficult.

He is making each project harder and harder and keeps including things are not even covered in CS130. His teaching is not helpful at all. He makes his life easier but makes student suffer instead. Really disappointed.

Labs are difficult if you don't have a good foundation of C++ and most of the class is self learning but it's nice that there are no tests. Lectures don't help too much but he answers pretty quickly on Piazza and is a nice.

The professor is terrible. No PPt available, no text book available, no code template available. Each assignment is terribly difficult. He is not qualified to teach this course. He should teach student to learn about data structure, not assuming student already knew everything and torturing them. Frankly speaking - I learnt nothing from him

No tests, but difficult labs

His lectures often don't match up with the current week's assignment and the assignments are difficult, but he responds pretty quickly on Piazza. There are no tests and the entire course is graded through 9/10 assignments. Overall, he gives good feedback and doesn't have tests, but the labs are extremely difficult every week.

made this class harder than previous quarters. even my friends that took this class last year can't help me with the projects since they are impossible

Worst professor ever had

The class was genuinely hard, harder than other profs from what I have seen. He is an actually good prof though and cares about making sure that his students learn the concept, lectures are genuinely effective. Just make sure you are doing the labs right.

It is impossible to know what going to be on the test, so you have to search everything he taught you outside. And in that process, you will learn a lot of new things and be better. (prof's intent) no study guide. Labs is hard, but its fun. Use paper to take note. He did big curve (really good). Be prepared to run a function on paper.

do you people expect him to just tell you how to do the labs in lecture? is that your definition of a “good lecturer”? if you actually pay attention and understand what he's trying to teach, and then make a genuine effort to apply the concepts and do the labs yourself, you'll learn a ton. unbelievable how people do not even try to use their brains

RUN. This class is like taking 3 classes at once. What we learn in lecture (1) has nothing to do with the labs (2) and nothing to do with the exams (3). Exams show that he does not know how to test computer science knowledge. Most people GPTd this class. Exam avgs are around ~45%, and he does not even moderately believe that is his fault.

Burk is very passionate and caring. It was his first time teaching the course, and while the structure was not the best, he made a lot of compromises to help out. A lot of people are mad cuz they're bad. Only group projects, no tests. Start early, and ask him questions. Spent >20 hours a week for the first project but I learned a lot.

This was supposed to be an intro C++ and even joked about it by having our first assignment be Hello World but then it exponentially got more difficult and by the end we were doing such time consuming and unnecessarily difficult projects that took up all of my time. Exams are awful and shows he doesn't know how to properly test comp sci knowledge

Kevin's CS16 is not really a "Intro to c++". His lecture is awesome, teach you lots of stuff, that is, if you know what he is talking about. This course will be hard if you are inexperience with programming. Lab work is hard, requires tons of time, but really fun. If you like computer science, you will enjoy this course, vice versa.

This man managed to make an introductory CS class into a part time job, only take if your other classes are easy so you can an insane amount of time to finish labs and prepare for exams.

Prof. Burk's lectures feel very unrelated to the labs he assigns-- which are a TON of work btw. He assumes you already have a basic understanding of C++ which is quite tough as a class that's an intro to C++. You don't need to attend lab/lectures. His lectures are tough and he focuses on computer memory a lot rather than teaching you how to code.

This man is absolutely legendary. A lot of work is needed but the projects are so fun to complete. The best thing is that there are no written assignments, no exams, just coding. His CS32 class was great as well. His assignments are creative as well(other than fibvec lol).

Prof. Burk is an excellent, passionate lecturer! He went out of the curriculum to teach us cool stuff like hacking! Attendance isn't mandatory, but I'd recommend you come to lectures. People complain that he only grades on projects, but isn't it good that we have no tests? Plus, he's really lenient (extra credits, TONS of extensions). He's great!