Dope professor who makes the effort to plan his curriculum really well. Made sure material was explained thoroughly and everyone understood it. Will take his class again for sure!

Alexey speaks with a very strong European accent but nevertheless he speaks slowly so that students can understand what he is saying. He likes to use the phrase "in fact" a lot during his lectures but it is very funny because his accent makes it sound like he is using the F word all the way. Anyway, Alexey is very helpful, though I think it would help if he structured his lessons better. There were some lessons in the middle of the quarter, especially when it came to the part about convergence in probability where most of the class were confused because the lectures couldn't keep up with the understanding required from the homework that was set. However, Alexey gave us many homework time extensions because of this and was very understanding about submitting homework. He was also very helpful during office hours when I went to ask him about various homework questions every week (I had many questions because his homework was pretty difficult and needed a lot of applying concepts to new situations not seen during the lecture).

Alexei only wears maybe 2 shirts the entire quarter, or perhaps he has multiple of these 2 shirts with the same 2 designs. In particular, he has a green and blue shirt of the same design and you will probably see him like that alternating between shirts every lecture. They say that geniuses always wear the same shirt so Alexei must be a genius.

While Alexey's homeworks are very hard, his midterms and final are also hard but definitely no harder than the homeworks (since the homeworks are already very hard). In this manner, if you can understand exactly how to do each homework question and the concepts behind them, then you will have no problems for his exams. Make good use of his office hours and the TA's office hours to ask about homework questions because he tends to set questions very close to that of the homeworks and problems that he has gone through in class!

Overall, Alexey gives off the impression that he is a big, warm teddy bear that can look quite intimidating at first, but can be quite funny when you talk to him.

Great professor. Gives very clear demonstration. Definitely recommended.

He is damn near a legend and an entertaining, knowledgeable lecturer. C++ is easy to learn until like week six and then it ramps up, so do not get lulled into a false sense of safety by the first couple weeks.

Okay, I'm going to say it since no one has said anything. If you're a CS major or have had previous experience coding then I am sure this class for you will be easy. But I'm sorry to break it to everyone and let you guys know not everyone was privileged enough to learn how to code in 5th grade! His homework is alright and majority will be easy. The last two are supposed to be "harder". I honestly rarely did the homework because this class did not interest me but sadly it is a pre req. His curve looks pretty generous but I have also heard he has gotten harder as time passes. He doesn't really teach as someone should for an intro course but this man is hilarious and says some pretty hilarious jokes. All in all, I hate programming :) if you like it then you should be fine!

One of the reasons why I chose Miroshnikov for this quarter was due to his high ratings here on BruinWalk, but this quarter, he failed to deliver... like failed hard.

While the course content was definitely not the most difficult thing in the world, it definitely wasn't easy for novice students like me. He stated at the beginning of the class that he assumes that we have no programming experience, and while he does provide information on syntax and basic computer science principles, he definitely gave us a run for our money. On top of that, he can be borderline condescending, which is never fun.

Miroshnikov's lectures were unengaging and unhelpful for a large part of the course. Honestly, the textbook makes more sense than his lectures, and it's hard to find anything right about his teaching style. I was better off reading the textbook rather than listening to him lecture. For a class meant to provide instruction toward one of the biggest industries of our time, computer science, Miroshnikov's teaching methods are primitive at best.

While this class is far from impossible, I would never suggest a student new to programming to take Miroshnikov's class. Do yourself a favor and find another professor.

BTW: I don't know about the reviewers below, but this guy is definitely not funny or entertaining. His sense of humor was basically nonexistent for our lecture.

OKAY. So the grade distribution looks very generous and it is. Kinda. I thought it was an easy A with Miroshnikov and I was SO wrong. PIC10A isn’t a joke. Yeah it’s an intro course but technically so is CS32 and we all know that class is AIDS. Alexey does a decent enough job with his slide explanations but its literally just summarizing the book, which is already a summary of the concepts. His homework and projects grow exponentially difficult past Week 3 and it takes hours upon hours to complete and really understand them. Even though I was personally struggling for a good portion of the course, I really really enjoyed learning the material. Lol so many people dropped the class bc the homework and exams were so hard. We started out with 120ish people in the beggining and we had less than 75 still enrolled the day before the final. Not bad too though in retrospect. If this class is a prereq, this professor is your best bet on passing. Had a good curve at the end.

Take this class with Alexey, he’s amazing.

I learned most of the class material(100%) from one of my CS major friends. I.e. the professor only introduced concepts by obscure and frightening professional CS terms, and never showed any example to assist our understanding. And his homework is unfriendly. It's like he only told us this is chicken, this potato, then please cook those meals at De Neve Dining as homework.

Alexey is a beautiful, funny man and a really engaging lecturer! His lectures were always clear and helpful, and he would often crack jokes during class. He definitely explained every concept very clearly and would answer student questions very thoroughly. The homework was just problems straight from the textbook and they weren't too bad. His tests were alright, too; the first midterm was a little difficult but the grading policy let you drop a midterm, and the final was very reasonable. Overall, I definitely recommend his class!