Pretty good class overall. There are only 5 homework assignments and you have at least a week to do each one. Textbook + lectures explain everything you need for assignments. Exams are as easy or easier than homework. Partner project at the end of the quarter, start early if you can because it does take time. Piazza will be your best friend

I was worried about this class based on Prof. Su's rating here on RMP but I don't know why it's so low. His class isn't the most organized or clear but him and the TAs like Momin Haider were very responsive and accessible outside of class. The exams are straightforward and so were the assignments. Decent class overall.

I was worried about taking this class, but I'm happy to say it's improved a lot since the last time it was taught. Homeworks were kind of difficult but they're only worth 2% each. Late days are generous. Exams were straightforward and a lot easier than the homework. Project was not too bad, but make sure to start early on it as it is a bit tedious.

DO NOT TAKE! 2/5 of the material is relevant, the rest is unnecessarily complicated and not important to understanding SQL databases. HWs are difficult and each only account for 2% of your grade. Exams are not graded fairly. Project is incredibly unclear, very time consuming, and graded VERY unfairly. Lectures are boring and unnecessary.

Literally no one goes to class because his lectures are so useless. The project was so vague and took weeks to complete and I ended up having 3000 lines of code that looked exactly the same. The project was due the last day of dead week so good luck studying for anything else since it takes forever. The TAs are the ones carrying this class.

1. Lectures are useless, he goes off on random tangents about his research and you learn nothing. 2. HWs take 3/4 weeks to be graded, so there is no learning feedback at all 3. Midterm solutions and hw solutions are posted the day before the final?! Crazy. 4. HUGE, redudant, busy-work project with terrible instructions. 5. A lot of hw. 6. Terrible

This professor gives an insane amount of homework and the project is useless and unnecessarily long and tedious. Sure you can work for half of your whole time in a quarter and get a fine grade since things are actually not that hard but I really don' think it's worth it since you won't learn as much as you can if you put this effort into others.

Maybe it's my fault because I had taken this professor before and said never again but he is the only one who teaches databases so here I am again. His lectures are taken directly from the book and he just RAMBLES to himself about unrelated things during lecture and even if you try to pay attention his train of thought is impossible to follow.

He spends the first 30 minutes of every lecture talking about unrelated things but you have to go because of pop quizzes. He is always emphasizing proofs and how we should be good at them without ever doing a proof in class. He expects you to attend workshops where you are randomly given a problem to present from homework that isn't due for a week.

"ITS ON SLIDE" "ASK TA" this is the most he would say if you ask him something in his office hours

Lecture is not very important, he uploads lecture slides to piazza and you can just read them and learn the same material; the lecture slides are easy to self study from. His programming assignments have very vague instructions and his answers in piazza don't help very much. It was easy to get a good grade though.

His lectures are very dry and boring, mostly just reads from non-descriptive powerpoint slides. By week 3, only about 10-15 students would show up to lecture. Also, you don't start to code any SQL until at least halfway through the quarter as he focuses on theoretical aspects of database design. He seems like a nice guy though.