This class was not an enjoyable experience, at all. While this was Professor's first quarter teaching, and I am sure he would improve, the homework and lectures were incredibly difficult to get through. He struggled a lot in delivering his lectures - his slides were lengthy (and unhelpful, they were hard to understand on their own and often skipped steps in the math). He also did not record his lectures, and listening to his lectures were not helpful in completing the problem sets regardless. Additionally, homework was graded inconsistently. I would often get points taken off without explanation, while it seemed like the rest of the class was graded on completion. The TAs and Professor were often not on the same page, providing different answers to the same questions asked. The midterm was on the easier side, as it mirrored the practice midterm almost entirely. The final had the same sentiment, but was a bit more difficult with more original content. The exams in general were ridiculous, being more a lengthy math test that was incredibly disorganized as each part would have several sub-questions to answer. If you can, I would try to take this class with Surro instead.

Relatively straight forward. Professor's slides aren't that clear but still manageable. Tests are pretty forgiving. Pretty much the same as the practice tests. You get 10% free for going to one discussion, 20% pretty much free from homework, and then the remaining 70% is largely dependent on the final.

Pluses:
-his practice tests are very similar to the real exams.
-seems like a cool guy outside of teaching

Negatives
-uses slides and you have to condense the info for yourself. a lot of the info on the slides were irrelevant to the tests.
-doesn’t record lectures
-the 4 problem sets he gave were pretty difficult and required a lot of time and help from ta’s.

Overall study his practice tests and go back to the lecture slides that correspond to the topics on the practice tests and you’ll be fine