Professor Wu is a good teacher. His teaching is kinda meh..... you need to spend time study more by yourself. But he always answers your questions no matter what time you email him. And his test is not that easy, but if you spend time perhaps, it's not super hard either. Plus he gave lots of 2nd chances for students to improve if they doing badly on the midterm.

Wu is one of the nicest professors I've ever had. He respects you as a student, and will go out of his way to help. His lectures are very mediocre, you will need to study to pass this class. The concepts are hard and you can't retain all the material by attending lecture. Wu will RECOMMEND YOU for jobs if you do well in his class and he likes you.

Dr. Wu struggles with teaching, but he's nice, respected and highly accessible. I love how much he cares about student's success and his experience in the field (Google). His tests and assignments are not bad (hard sometimes), but I wish he could bring more coding interview questions to programming assignments. He grades easily, with curve, though.

Great professor and very knowledgable in the topics. I enjoyed his class very much.

Dr. Wu is a really nice guy and cares about his students. He is so much more approachable than the other CS146 teachers, very responsibe email. He's also flexible with deadlines when students ask for it (big life saver). Of course being 146 its still a challenging class. Very fair grader. It's not mandatory to attend but it helps you stay updated.

Professor Wu cares about the learning progress of students and is very responsive to questions. I learned a lot of concept and skills in Big Data from this course. Some of homework assignments are challenge and time consuming, but very useful and practical. I have found an intern job in Silicon Valley. This is a must-take graduate class.

Professor Wu is an excellent Computer Science professor. He cares about the success of all of his students, and he tries his best to ensure everyone in his class learns the material. He can be a tough grader, but he is also fair. I would highly recommend him to any student looking to take data structures and algorithms.

Although Dr. Wu isn't the best lecturer in the word, he is definitely one of the best professors that I've had so far. He is very knowledgeable and very approachable outside of class and always encourages you to ask him questions if you have any. He is a tough but fair grader. You will learn the concepts very well in his class.

Dr. Wu is one of the best profs I've ever had. He's extensive industry experience and very knowledgeable in the field. After finishing my programming hws, I got so much great concepts of how Google search engine and Facebook work in using data structures and algorithms. I would say that if you dont miss class and ask questions, you should be OK.

He is great. I went to his office to ask questions and he was always very nice and clearly answered my questions. He wouldn't mind meet me on Friday or even Saturday because my class schedule conflicted with all his office hours.

Professor Wu is a vey nice professor. He gave interesting programming assignments, lots of assignments, and pop quizzes to make students learn. I recommend Professor Wu to those who want to understand and do well in Data Structures and Algorithms.

Professor Wu is super considerable and knows the connection between the material in books and the implementation in industry. He is trying to make all the students to catch up, and he spends so many time to help students to improve their performance of this course after class. He is always energetic and passionate during his lectures.

I am in his data structure and algorithms class Spring 2019. I love his teaching style, funny, nice, and Knowledgable. One of the greatest professors I've have taken at SJSU. Really cares about the success of his students. Very understanding and humorous guy. I am really enjoying taking his class.

This is the only review you ever need: 1- Prof Wu curves your grades and extends deadlines often (got C's on midterms and final but total grade is B) 2- Tests are very difficult and long. 3-Assignment instructions are horribly unclear, but not hard. 4- Study everyday's lecture for the pop quiz (seriously) 5- No laptop in class

I retook CS 146 and did so with his class. He will give you opportunities and chances to show that you understand the material and you get the grade you deserve. I was able to understand this subject better thanks to him and he will go out of his way to help you if you ask. You get an occasional laugh during class as well.

Mike Wu is a great teacher. He's very passionate about teaching and inspiring students to study well for industry jobs. Make sure to attend every lecture and stay on top of coding assignments. He curves and gives extra credits so I found his class easier to pass than other CS146 classes. Also, make sure you learn Java before taking him.

The class almost done, I will definitely miss him. He is the best professor ever. He is always there for us to help us out. Every time go to his office, and ask him questions, he always explain patiently. He even add extra office hours, and comes to the office often on Friday, or weekends to help us. The hw and projects are well designed.

Really passionate guy. Programming assignments and tests are long and hard, BUT he is generous is giving you ways to make up your grade. This semester he let people redo their mistakes for partial credit for the first midterm, and curved the second and final. Try your best even when it gets hard and ask questions. He wants you to succeed too.

Easily one of my favorite CS professors. The material itself is difficult and he understand that it is difficult. The programming assignments are very general as long as it fulfills his requirements. The exams and pop quizzes can be very difficult but he tries his best to curve your grade based on the class average. Overall, a very good professor.

After CS146 with Professor Wu, I found that I have improved a lot of concepts and skills in data structure and algorithm throughout the semester. In addition, I have also gained more interest in coding after completing his tough assignments. Thus, I believe that I am almost well-prepared for my next coding interview after taking his CS146 class.

Dr. Wu is a good professor, he tries to help students as much as he can (as long as you try as well). His exams are hard if you don't study, programming assignments are hard but you learn a lot from them. Homeworks are lengthy, so start early. Write down whatever he writes on the board, it can be on a quiz or midterm. Pop-Quiz every week, prepare

I had CS146 and CS156A from Professor Wu. He is AMAZING! He is my best professor at SJSU. He is always there to answer questions and help. Pop quizzes and exams are tough, but you gain a lot things from it. You will love the team database application project. I put it in my Github for my resume.

Truly cares about his students and by far one of the best professors in CS over my 3 years. His HWs and exams are difficult but very helpful to learn the concepts. He is very knowledgeable with industry experience and is very accessible. I sent him hw questions around 1am and I was surprised that I received reply right away. He is a great teacher.

The database project was the best part of the course. We can choose any programming languages we are comfortable with to implement the web based 3 tiered database application. Its very industry oriented and my first web database-driven product ever. Do a good work. Professor Wu also referred students to Google for internship or job interviews.

Dr. Wu is a wonderful teacher and cares about success of his students. If you are looking to slack off and get by, his classes are not for you. To get a good grade, you genuinely need to work hard and be ready for pop quizzes, pop questions and challenging exams.

Exams could be tricky, but had similar questions to homework and lecture. Professor Wu was very responsive over email, and could be reached outside of class. I walked away from this RDBMS course feeling more confident in my knowledge of the subject. Prof. Wu wants his students to succeed, his actions made this clear. Overall a great Professor.

I cant begin to tell you how amazing Dr. Wu is at his job. He's the kind of teacher who will set a student up for success and will listen to the students to try to understand what he can do to better help them learn. He's very flexible with due dates if the class tells him they need more time. Also he's not offended by people negotiating for grades

Professor Wu is super patient to his students low questions in the class. It ate up a lot of lecture time and delayed the lecture progress. Overall a great course.

Professor Wu is the nicest Professor I have ever had. He was extremely helpful outside of the class. Pay attention to key concepts in his lectures and you will do great on exams. HE IS A MUST TAKE PROFESSOR!

Dr. Mike is very Knowledgeable and enthusiastic on the subject. He is an EXCELLENT teacher who is always willing to help and response to email quickly. Exams and HW are tough but very useful for my job interview. I am looking forward to taking his CS157A.

Tough class (long programming assignments + homeworks + tests) but he's nice and you can try to get some points back by talking to him. Transition to online this semester kind of screwed us all over but he tried to do his best and he just focused on the chapters from the text book (Introduction to Algorithms, 3rd edition by Cormen). Just work hard

It's a project heavy class to build a "Full Stack Web App Development Using Java (JSP, JDBC, Java Servlets, and Javascript) and Tomcat Web Server". It requires tons of time/effort, in return you got a solid WebApp at the end that you'd be pride of. 4 HW's took long time + be wary of pop quizzes, but they reappeared in Midterm/Final, so worth it.

This course was tough and very intensive specially in the summer short term. In less than 6 weeks, we have to build a full functioning database application. Its very time consuming. I would suggest go for regular semester with Professor Wu but not the summer. Hes a nice Professor very helpful outside the class.

This is a hard class, but he's a good professor.

This Big Data with Machine Learning course was a great experience because I learned new things and tools that help me found an intern. The course material was really useful and Dr. Wus experience with Google project was very inspiring; Furthermore, the practice homework assignments really help strengthen my knowledge and skill in data science.

Professor Wu is very enthusiastic in teaching, and caring about his students. He is a tough professor but very passionate. Take him if you really want to have a job in IT career when graduating. Otherwise, I would recommend you not to take him. He provided tough homework and quizzes that help us concrete the knowledge.

Professor really cares about students performance. Grading is fair and he gives you the second chance to learn from previous mistakes and to improve your final grade. He a nice Professor.

Professor Wu is really a responsible professor. He is by far the best teacher I have ever had.

The class wasn't the easiest, but I definitely learned a lot from his class. There's one midterm, one final, and a group project. The homework given to you are very helpful for practice for the exams. I recommend reviewing them often whenever given the chance. The group project will require a demo near the end of the semester.

It was an incredibly informative class. I really enjoyed it and I use the foundational database skills I learned here all the time in group projects and my internship since I took it.

He has a lot of experience and you can see that clearly during his class. He tries to focus on the information that will help us in the real world. He is extremely caring about his students. He always asked if we wanted an extension on any of the assignments. Midterm and Finals are straightforward and a big project you work throughout the semester.

Very caring professor. Extends deadlines for hw and exams. Written and programming assignments are tough, but they teach and reinforce the topics very well. Gives pop quizzes, access code given during the lecture. Curves the midterms/ final exams. Lecture slides are summaries of the textbook (CLRS). Overall great prof would def take again.

This is course is vast, Professor Wu introduces concepts at a high level so the course involves reading, you need to work hard on the assignments which are long so start early! The course is good for gaining knowledge in data engineering if you put in the work and Professor Wu is a great grader so don't worry about grades! Attendance is mandatory.

1. Dr. Wu said that he never give crystalized HW questions in case that students submit it to Chegg for solutions. He also gave some examples too. I would suggest not to miss any classes for full explanations of HWs so that you don’t need to fight for points. 2. CS157C was well organized and very useful and beneficial to my job interviews.

1. Dr. Wu said that he never give crystalized HW questions in case that students submit it to Chegg for solutions. He also gave some examples too. I would suggest not to miss any classes for full explanations of HWs so that you don’t need to fight for points. 2. CS157C was well organized and very useful and beneficial to my job interviews.

I remembered Dr. Wu said in the class that he never gave crystalized clearly questions on HWs in case that students post then on Chegg for answers. You have to attend classes for detailed explanations. I would suggest not to skip any classes so that you don't have to fight for points. Topics are very useful for my job interviews.

Decent professor. His HWs are often pretty vague so students spam questions. This my 2nd time taking him, IMO his classes are often tough. You'll have to put in a lot of work for an A, especially for 157C and 146. DO NOT fall behind or its a guaranteed F. Other than that, he's generous with extra credit and postponing HW.

Really good professor. You will have to do a lot of self learning to understand topics. His Has take time and require extensive environment setup so start early. HWs are really informative and helpful. Has pop quizzes in class and make sure to attend all classes.

Mike is an amazing professor who cares about his students. The class is not difficult but homework instructions are vague and can confuse you. Tests are not hard at all. He is very quick to respond to email. Lots of presentations including homeworks and final project. Be sure to show up to class because he does pop quizzes. Pop quizzes are easy.

Get ready to work! His homework takes as much times as all my other classes combined. Thorough, good teacher though. He will have you learning by the end. Each homework has you writing a long, detailed report with screenshots, an explanation, and use-case for each of the functions and classes of your code. Each report is 15-25 pages long. Good luck

Great course and nice Professor. There were tremendous materials of the 4 most popular types NoSQL databases introduced in this course providing us with a comprehensive learning experience through the hands-on exercises and very practical assignments. Be sure to attend each class to take pop quizzes and hands on exercise.

Wow! Professor Wu. The lectures are hila

Great teacher. Great course. Pushing students to work hard. Very inspirational teacher. Pop quizzes often. Great learning experience from the Web-based Database application development project.

Dr. Wu had great lectures and taught all the concepts well. Had pop quizzes, which would go over the topics he taught. Had a group project that would help you learn about Web-based application development. Friendly and willing to help as long as you put effort into learning. Provides information about interview questions and how to find a job.

One of my best professors ever for all courses I have taken so far at SJSU. He is very knowledgeable and inspiring. I passed a technical interview and found a summer intern job as a database developer because I took his database course. A great course and a nice learning experience.

I liked this graduate course very much. The topics were both industry and research oriented and it helped me on data scientist job interviews. I recommend this course to all if you plan to work as a data scientist or data analyst role. Each homework assignment can be super time consuming and take several days to complete but it will pay you back.

Wow…I sent him emails and asked homework questions at 2:30 AM (it was at 2:30AM) and he replied my questions right away at 2:40AM. He always responds quickly. Amazing Professor.

Mike is a great professor, but there are some caveats in his teaching. There are pop quizzes, but the difficulty of them is not of concern. Mike grades very leniently, he is the opposite of a harsh grader, he wants everyone to succeed. Sometimes he can give unhelpful answers/remarks over email, but during office hours he is more understanding.

This is the best teacher I've had! I didn't use the textbook but you have to go to class and take notes. Very understanding and nice dude. Pop quizzes are easy if you pay attention to his lectures. He replies email super quick and very responsive. Grading is not tough. Easy to get A.

A decent professor and a great course for data science. I love the course contents in big data and ml technologies invented and used by Google. A very informative data science course with a potential job interview opportunity with Google.

By reading through all comments on this thread, I can conclude: good students like him and bad students hate him. I am a good student. Hahahaha…

Challenging exams help us to pass technical job interview, frequent pop quizzes help us strengthen concepts and an interesting final database application project to finalize our sql/jsp/Javascript skills needed for future job interviews.

His homework takes as much times as all my other classes combined. Thorough, good teacher though. Each homework has you writing a long, detailed report with screenshots, an explanation, and use-case for each of the functions and classes of your code. Each report is 15-25 pages long. Good luck!

Homework is challenging but very understanding and useful. He explains everything clearly on all HWs. The course is structured well and industry oriented. Don't take his class if you want to fool around and get by.

Dr. Wu cares much about his student's success and he is very responsive to questions. I recommend his classes.

Professor Wu is really a responsible professor. He was the best teacher I have ever had. I was referred by him and found a job as a software engineer at Amazon.

He is amazing! I love how knowledgeable he is on the material. His lectures are clear and concise. Ive learned so much just from his slides alone. Plus he is always very helpful outside of the classroom if theres something that I dont quite understand.

Excellent teacher, tests are difficult but he is fair in grading. Always willing to help at anytime of the day. Knows his stuff!

Professor Wu is very competent and knowledgeable professor on his subject area. He is excellent in term of doing his job as a professor. The HWs were difficult. but made us work hard and learn lot of new things. Overall, I thought he was a good professor.

I would say Prof is a nice teacher. He is under attack by many untrue and offensive posts in a day. I suggest he talk to his lawyer to take some legal actions.

Dr. Wu, go for it. The guy keeps making untrue posts to disparage you. This website is a joke. :-)

There are 8-10 pop quizzes that are easy if you review the material before class. He is not a great lecturer and rushes through the slides when there is no time. However, he is super responsive to emails and is a very caring. Go to his office hours and review the content yourself as he posts all the slides. The average in the class is high.

Very fair. Pop quizzes are easy if you attend classes. The midterms and final are pretty challenging (no cheat sheet) but nothing should be surprising if you review the lecture slides. The semester project is fine and was graded nicely. Professor is nice and cracks jokes and keeps lectures interesting enough.

Dr. Wu was knowledgeable, funny, responsive, clear about his expectations, and caring for students. I took him for Summer, there was a lot of work but he understood our difficulties and made reasonable adjustments. He cared a lot about engagement and attendance, with multiple pop quizzes. Make sure you pay attention to the topics he emphasizes.