Overall, this class wasn't bad. Professor Nam is a fairly good lecturer and always seeks to answer his student's questions. However, I don't think he provides good enough examples for concepts; rather, the examples he gives in class are pretty elementary and doesn't prepare us for more difficult questions. The textbook is pretty shitty too in my opinion.

The midterms were easy but the final was very very hard. I wouldn't count on the midterms for his class to be easy in the future as it seems he made the final extra hard to offset the good grades we got from the midterms. Also, he didn't curve grades in the end despite very low scores on the final.

Make sure to try to get 100% on every homework as that category is a large part of your grade and every point counts!

Course Breakdown:
Homework - 30%
Midterm 1 - 20%
Midterm 2 - 20%
Final - 30%

Exam Medians:
Midterm 1 - 96%
Midterm 2 - 95%
Final - 66%

Totally agree with the previous review. Professor Nam can clearly address the concept, but his examples in lectures are not enough for the exam, especially the final exam. The homework and two midterms are quite easy and fair. But the final was super difficult; the average for the whole class was about 65%, and he didn't curve the final at all, which disappointed me. So make sure you have full scores on all the homework and midterms if you want to have an A. Otherwise, your grade possibly changes from A to A-.

Basically suffer the same story as the previous reviews. They are absolutely right about everything this class is. Would not recommend taking.

Different quarter but same story as the others. The two midterm averages were pretty high and the final average was really low but he did not curve. The homework assignments are super long and confusing because a lot of problems aren’t things we tried in lecture, but you should really try to do them all and get 100% on them if you want an A in the class, to pad your grade for the final. The professor’s lectures were decent but I wish he would go over harder problems in class. The first half of the class is super easy imo but I felt very lost in the second half.