# Xiaobin XIONG — Courses & Reviews | UW–Madison

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### name

Xiaobin XIONG

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    "comment": "The course is challenging because he put quite a lot of stuff into a single course. I found that while some of the math were complex, they were quite manageable with a bit of extra effort outside of class. He also post pre-view videos and recorded videos, making it accessible. Impressed by high quality final projects. I recommend this course.",
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    "comment": "601 is hard. The TA is nice. The midterm is impossibly hard. The syllabus is too full and very math dense and not related to the homework. But the grading is okay, as there are extra credits. He is a very research guy. If you want to do some research on robotics this is definitly a good class to take and Xiong is a good researcher to talk to.",
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    "comment": "Lectures were rambling nonsense and never applicable to the homework. Xiaobin straight up told us that the exam was going to be nothing like the homework's and every single homework took hours and hours to complete. The practice exam problems never looked like the actual exam and the average scores on tests were 15 pts lower than the other class.",
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