Good teacher, gives very clear and helpful lectures. Homework can be tough but is rarely beyond the scope of the lectures. He gives practice tests for the midterms and the final, and those tend to represent the actual test well.

Not too difficult of a class but you definitely have to study and practice the material.

Even though lecture slides are posted, still important to go to class. You'll learn the material well if you put the effort into it; if not, you'll think it's too hard.

No need to go to class, lecture slides are posted online. Very, very tough grader, especially for homework assignments. My least favorite CS professor, so far, at UCSB.

Turk is a very soothing lecturer to listen to, and seems to be a nice guy. He gives a small, simple extra credit question on the midterm and final. The answer will be something that he has said in class. Also posts slides online:) HW is a big part of your grade, and the final was hard. Let us have a 8x11 frontback note sheet, which was very nice.

Power points and lectures were interesting but test were abominable. He talks about surface level concepts in class so he makes it seem easy but then he expects you to understand them at a deep level and apply them on the test without practice. He is helpful in office hours and is a funny interesting guy, so I liked going to class. Overall worth it