Best professor ever.

I love Jukka! Amazing person and professor...

I didn't even have Jukka but I only heard great things about him lmao

Legend

Amazing dedication both to helping students that struggle while keeping more advanced students engaged. Lectures and slides are given with brilliant clarity. Office hours are helpful and enjoyable. Makes pop culture references and jokes to keep things from becoming monotonous and is about to drop a sick new mix-tape.

Jukka is honestly one of the best professors I have had at UCLA thus far. He truly cares about his students' success and learning. His practice exams are very intuitive and put you on the right path to being successful in his class. If more professors were like Jukka, students would not only learn efficiently but be much happier. I wish I would have taken him for 30a. He is so understanding and helpful, especially in office hours, and overall just a very kind person.

Overall, the LS 30 series is very easy and I did enjoy having a chill time going through it. The only part that wasn’t cool was the labs. They got progressively harder in LS 30B, but Jukka made it much better. He’s so knowledgeable about the content and cares very much about his students. He’s been always making funny references in class and always tries to make the lectures more engaging. He also has fire shoe game.

Jukka is a great professor who really wants his students to succeed. He posts his lecture slides the day before so students can preview the material. Jukka's lectures are very clear and focused, but he does talk fast so it's important to have the lecture slides with you. He also spends the first portion of lecture reviewing the previous lecture's material. iClickers are required for participation/attendance in lecture. The lab portion of this class builds on the coding concepts from LS30A, but are generally shorter and more focused than the 30A labs. Homework is graded on "significant progress towards the correct answer," which is at the discretion of the TA, but the lowest 2 scores are dropped. There is one midterm and a final for which Jukka provides practice templates and review sessions. The practice exams are *very* similar structure- and content-wise to the actual exams, so if you can do those then you will do fine in the class.

I love Jukka! He's very funny and approachable and also reviews the course material at such a great pace. He gives out excellent previous finals and midterms to study off of and puts in so much effort into his slides. I would 10/10 take his class again just for his neon backpack.

This class was a slight step up from 30A, but overall very doable. Exams were modeled very much like the practice exam, and Jukka posts the answers to those well in advance of midterm/final so you have time to practice and prepare. Also, he goes through the whole process of how to do certain problems on the homework during office hours which is extremely helpful as he will also sometimes give hints during those as to what might be a good question for a test. He explains concepts clearly but the material itself can be challenging to understand at times. I usually got confusion cleared up during office hours, though. Overall, Jukka is a great professor to have for 30B.