Virtanen is a great professor, and explains concepts clearly and gives plenty of examples to aid in the understanding of C++. His homework assignments are great practice for exams and just getting coding experience in general, and are not harshly graded. He likes The Simpsons a lot, so be prepared to see a lot of examples involving Homer or other characters. The TA sections were also very well run, and students' questions were answered very efficiently there. His past exams were a bit tricky, but when I took the class, they were very straightforward and rather on the easy side. Don't bother getting the book; his lecture slides are more than sufficient to carry you through the class. I would definitely recommend taking PIC 10A with Virtanen.

Amazing professor

I took Virtanen for Math 33B but that wasn't an option on bruinwalk so I thought I'd post here. He was a fantastic professor and I would definitely recommend him. First of all, he is super helpful and patient in office hours, and unlike other professors, he actually answers emails. He once sent me a whole page of calculations for a problem I was having trouble with.
As for his tests, if you understand all the homework and recommended problems you should have no trouble getting a good grade. The questions were fair and there were no curveballs. When he did put one hard question he said that depending how the class did, he might not take off points for missing that question.
Finally, one of my favorite things is that he doesn't curve down, so I think about 40% of my class ended up getting an A. Because his tests were so fair and he was such a good teacher, there was no reason not to do well.
Hope this was helpful even though it's for a different class. Definitely one of the better professors I've had at UCLA, and I'm a senior.

Awesome professor, awesome guy. Mostly easy but you actually learn a ton. Love his teaching style and grading breakdown. Very generous in providing help and answers to the homeworks and labs, so you're not spending hours and hours and hours figuring one thing out. But then he makes sure you actually got the material on the exams, which aren't bad if you've prepared. Very nice guy as well. Wish I could have taken every PIC class with him!

Prof. Virtanen is the go-to professor for 40A. Very clear, helpful, and fair for a dense course that packs HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, and a bit of SQL and Ajax.

Virtanen is the go-to PIC professor for the PIC courses. Always has slides available, and his exams never deviate from what he goes over in class. Before midterms, he often devotes a whole lecture to review and gives hints throughout the quarter about which things he might test on. This class doesn't have a final exam, but a final project. Grade breakdown is 30% HW, 20% for two midterms, and 30% for the final project.

Extremely easy class, extremely easy professor. The difficulty of this course was on par with PIC 10A. Six very easy homework assignments, one final project (for which you can do pretty much anything). Lectures were very in depth, but extremely slow and extremely boring. If it weren't for the information about exam cheatsheets and final project, lectures would be an absolute waste of time. Highly recommend for the free A (good luck not falling asleep in class though).

DO NOT take this guy. Literally the worst professor and worst TA somehow in the same class of allll time. This dude literally lost both of my midterms, you have been warned.

He is a super nice professor, he always holds office hours and helps us. The only problem is the final exam. It was kinda brutal but nothing can be said until the final grades are out. Overall, I enjoyed the class a lot.