Reviews of professor Jae (Jay) Suk

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
WARNING: IF YOU WANT A 4.0, AVOID THIS PROFESSOR. Exams are impossible. Midterm 1 - Mean 66%; Midterm 2 - Mean 70%; Final - Mean 60%. No curve. Easy quizzes, labs, and HW, but the exams are brutal with complex, multi-nested trace loops. 26 questions in 123 minutes, no time to think. I scored above average, but no one had 100%. Exam determine GPA.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
This class is extremely difficult. If you don't understand something, email him ASAP. It gets HARD if you force your way through this class. His exams are challenging, but if you understand the concept of his teaching, like really understand it, it's manageable. Take advantage of his office hour. Jae is a great instructor. He cares a lot.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Reasonable, has weekly quizzes, discussions, the weekly assignments are worth a lot of points. Exams are very, if not, the most important. Prepare well for the exams, you will need to write programs, which is most difficult. Get a lot of support from him and tutors, outside resources, in anyway you can to keep up. It will get more challenging.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
He is a good instructor. His lectures were posted in Canvas (class-notes). Exam problems (mostly) were from the textbook. If you do your homework and participate on class well, you will get A easily.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
(+) Kind, responsive, lots of sample code for hw, easy grader

(-) Ruined my GPA, a high grade is unattainable in this class. Labs are worth only 2pts; hw 20pts, quiz 20pts; exams are 125pts. Extra Credit offered is minimal (0.2 from codingbat, 2pts in hw). If you are average student who missed 40pts in exam, you won't be able to recoop your grade.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Kind, accommodating, good teacher. However, the midterm and final are unnecessarily hard. My friend is majoring in CS at a 4-year university, and he says his final for a high-level computer science class was much easier than the one for this supposedly introductory one at a community college. Went from a 4.0 in the class to a 3.5 with one final.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
The way Dr. Suk organized this course with lecture videos, supplemental materials, labs, homework and quizzes was so helpful for me that I have learned so much from this course. I did not expect it to be a cakewalk as I was new to (Python) programming language but it was worth every bit of the challenges faced. Great experience. Thank you, Dr. Suk.