Extremely set on only teaching the "ideas" behind the concepts. Uses very strange syntax and organization on midterm. Probably much more useful in a higher CS class when the difficulties of coding have been thoroughly taught already.

This is the best compsci professor in ucsb. His lectures are very informative and crystal clear. He presents his "idears" to an extent that nobody understands. Not much to say about this professor other than "horrible".

Useless and boring. Avoid teacher! Teach me code and not abstraction... Leave abstraction to the artists imo

Abandon all hope, all ye who enter...

Highly theoretical stuff in this class (stuff that would be best learned on your own, not in a CS class) He actually said at the beginning of the year, "I will not teach you Java. I am going to teach you how to think abstractly." Not what you want from a Java teacher. Also, his lectures are basically the book rearranged and put into powerpoint.

This professor talks about concepts all day long.. Dosent even teach us actually how to code anything. Avoid him if possible.