Moraga is an objectively good teacher. The slides he uses in lecture are clear and concise, his handwriting is incredibly neat, and his accent is very understandable. The tests are fair, though they tend to be much more heavily based on computations than the lectures and homework would make you think. I would have no complaints taking him again.

Note: only take honors if you're a masochist, really think you can handle it, AND really want your grad school application to look as good as possible. From what I've heard, the normal linear classes are significantly easier, and don't cover about 4 weeks worth of topics that honors did (namely: dual spaces, rings, decomposition theorems).

Grading was 25% homework and quizzes, 35% midterm, and 40% final. Homework was only graded on completion, leading to the quizzes making up much of that 25%. There were 3 quizzes I believe, all announced in advance. The first was extra credit for the midterm. The second was pretty unfair, with the class average sitting at a healthy 2.5/10, but the third was very easy. The final grading curve was said to be 1/3 A, 1/3 B, and 1/3 C and below. I'm not sure what the cutoffs were for +/- for each letter.

He gives a lot of extra credit for both the midterm and the final. Personally, I earned 5 extra credit points on the midterm (midterm was out of 30), and 10 on the final (out of 70). I think the mean score on the midterm pre-extra credit was 17/30, and 21 after EC. Median was something like 19 pre-EC, 24 after it. To prepare you for each test, he gives a practice test with one problem guaranteed to be on the actual test. For the final specifically, he told us that one problem would be from the midterm, one from the practice final, one from a past homework, and one of the student submitted problems in the discord. Of the 4 remaining problems, there was another that was somewhat similar to a final practice problem, and two that were pretty similar to a different midterm problem.

For the tests, make sure you know how to apply what you've learned in lecture more than anything. The actual proofs that we spend most of the class learning are not as important as knowing the consequences and applications of the theorems.

He does not have a difficult or abrasive personality. He is obviously autistic, which certainly caused a couple awkward moments, but overall it is clear that he cares about his students and the class. I didn't talk to him one-on-one very much, but I never had any negative experiences with him.

Having an official class Discord was nice. Moraga and the TA were always available to answer questions on there, though having all of the materials posted on there was sometimes a bit confusing. My main complaint with it was the lack of a running grade throughout the semester. You could estimate your grade yourself, but nobody knew their actual grades until most of the way through the quarter when he posted our current grades on MyUCLA.

This class is a dream come true if you're competitive and love to be praised by the professor, because he certainly has favorites and makes them known to the class. This was a bit annoying, but not as annoying as the actual students vying for his attention. My class had a small group of somewhat insufferable students like this, constantly taking up lecture/discussion time with irrelevant questions about advanced topics tangentially related to the material we're learning or otherwise annoying me with their enthusiasm. Most of the people in the class were normal enough though, so there's still plenty of opportunities to form trauma bonds with your classmates.

Finally, I don't understand why people complain so much about the printer paper thing; just use the right paper and you'll have no issues. The paper thing was all people in the discord were talking about week 1, and yet some people STILL used the wrong paper. Moraga didn't accept those, but allowed those students to resubmit it later that day. That's the only thing he was ever hyper-specific about, by the way. Tests, extra credit assignments, and quizzes were all completely normal.