Reviews of professor Sam King

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
This class was hard, but the professor was very lenient. I think the majority of the class got an A. I barely got an A, however, feel undeserved. What i'm trying to say is, I think I lokey lucked out on the final. As an instructor, he does well explaining and his office hours were very helpful too! I'd highly recommend.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Really clear lecturer imo. He gives time for students to talk to each other and figure out mini problems in class. I appreciated his perspective as someone who comes from a lot of industry experience + he always had an explanation as to WHY it was important we learn something. Tests were hard but tbh ur good if you understand the hw well. hard hw.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Everything graded harshly. Pop quizzes are awful. You don't learn anything. Professor is dismissive.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He is an amazing professor, even though his tests are hard. but he is gives a bunch of extra credit and will also extend the homework time, so we can have enough time to work on it.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
He explains things really well and is willing to negotiate with students. I appreciated the opportunity he gave us to make our own project with so much creative freedom.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor King is very thoughtful of the circumstances during the pandemic. He updated the course material to maximize the number of important subjects we learned. We had to skip some material we had already covered in lower division classes, but were able to learn more modern technologies instead.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Supposed to teach operating systems, taught us a bunch of other things instead. I came here to learn but got an easy class where I did not learn.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Easily the hardest cs class at UC Davis. I would say as a lecturer he is mediocre and sometimes hard to understand compare to Porquet's lectures. His projects and exams are VERY HARD, so don't slack off thinking you can do well. He is very generous and gave out a lot of extra credit to help us out.