Decent class, the professor himself was very nice. My main problems were taking it simultaneously with some difficult classes, and forgetting about it until the midterm, in which I was wrecked, and spent the rest of the quarter trying to recover. In general, a meh class with a nice teacher. Textbook was definitely one of the jankiest ones I've ever seen, I practically never used it, just found resources elsewhere which made a lot more sense. Make sure to do the labs completely (some of them they check thoroughly, some not so much) and to go really slow on the quizzes (they are practically free points if you are careful with them).

As you can see from the class distribution, Professor Almohalwas's class is doable; however, this does not mean he doesn't teach. He is genuinly concerned about his students and he actually teaches class materials that are useful. His additional lecture materials he posts are very useful and interesting as well.

He seems confusing at first because his teaching style is a little different. The most important thing that you can do is know everything in the notes he provides and write down all the examples he does in class. To succeed I went to many office hours and asked him to redo profs and all the examples I wasn't able to follow in class. He is extremely patient in office hours and has many of them- so take advantage! Other than that, his tests are fair and directly mirror the in class material.

Professor Almohalwas is such a great professor. He is very passionate about his teaching and is very easy to approach if you have any questions or need clarity. He is very clear about what he expects and makes all of his lecture notes available online. He provided formula sheets for the midterm and allowed 1 full page front and back of any notes you wanted for the final. Overall, great class! If you study you'll get the grade you deserve.

Very disorganized class which made content way harder than it is supposed to be. Professor is nice and accommodating but his slides made no sense and his explanations were not sufficient and I had to learn everything by myself. Sometimes he would go on tangents about the material that would eventually go off topic. I felt that formulas and concepts were just thrown at me, leaving me not knowing what what to do with them. I wasn't sure what types of questions to study because of the poor structure and few exercises. One tip is do the textbook practice problems as he pulled 90% of the MCQ in the midterm straight from the textbook which he never provided. Labs were very annoying since there were many questions that required you to type sequences of code never taught in lab. Overall, this class was a bad experience but the material itself is okay.

Not as intense as Christou, but also covers less content though.

Almohalwas copied Christou's lecture notes (plus a bunch of other random notes from the Web) and posted an overwhelming amount on CCLE. Slightly disorganized, but he was helpful in explaining the challenging concepts of 100B slowly. If you're looking for a less intense version of 100B, have a solid math background, and can be patient with his disorganizedness, take him.

I took this professor during summer so this class was 6 weeks. At first, I was stressed because I felt as though I wasn't learning the material in an organized fashion when I went to lecture. In fact, I didn't really learn that much during lecture. Every week we have a lab due which appears to be a lot of work until I discovered that they were essentially all graded for completion. Everyone I knew got 100% and that was a large part of the grade. The rest of the grade besides the test is pretty much a guaranteed 100% in the gradebook. There are online quizzes but you can find those answers online as well. The tests are pretty easy. He uses identical questions from the textbook and the problems he gives you in the discussion. He is also very helpful in office hours and works with you if you have any grade issues. The tests are easier than I anticipated and I was seriously freaking out about them since I felt like I didn't learn in lecture. In fact, it's pretty common sense and go along with discussion. Even if you don't know how to do a problem, they grade super easily. I thought I missed an entire written problem on the final (out of four written problem) but I still scored higher than 100%. The only issue is that the class lectures are pretty useless, but the material and tests are easy enough that it doesn't matter. Also, if you've taken AP stats that you're pretty set.

For those signing up for spring quarter classes I wanted to add in a review of my impressions up to week 4 because there aren't many reviews.

He is a funny and nice professor and he yells a lot while lecturing so you won't be bored and it gives the illusion that you won't lose focus and you'll understand things better, but in reality you still somehow end up leaving the classroom wondering what the heck you learned in those 50 minutes. I feel bad saying this because he does seem like a good person but his lecturing is so disorganized. He would benefit from having an agenda of what we should learn by the end of the lecture instead of jumping from webpage to powerpoint slide to blackboard on what seems like a bunch of different tangents.

I'm struggling to do this homework assignment due tomorrow because I have not learned the material necessary to do it.

Best professor ever! Take him!