Reviews of professor Leon Bergen

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Professor Bergon always shows concern for students learning. LIGN165 could be very hard for students without any coding backgrounds. It should have a coding class as a prereq, but this is not the prof's fault. He did a really good job explaining the probabilities while the coding part could be a little hard to scary at the beginning.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Requires programming exp to do well on problem sets. Propose your own final project. Final Grade  70% (5 PS) + 30% (final project). Lectures help build mathematical intuition for deep learning. You need to figure out on your own how to implement what you learn. Highly recommend to those who want to understand ML rather than learn frameworks.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 2.0/5
Talked to some people who took his earlier class and they said to follow some tutorials online and you can do well. They were right.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
MIT guy with way too high expectations. Lectures don't hold your attention with the high level of equation deriving he does, and assignments go way beyond the scope of the prereqs nor are we taught how to do them in class