Koffi is sharp, know vey well his stuff. He assigned a tons of homework. But like he like to say, “you can not learn a topic in math by just solving one or two problems on the topic”. Great person. Great teacher!

Koffi is a good person. He might not be the best professor, but he's a good person. His midterms are fairly easy. Most of the class got A's on both tests. However, his final for this quarter is harder than the midterms. His homework is long but they often are pretty quick (there are proof questions that take longer, but those are mainly graded based on completion so definitely do them). His group assignments are graded based on completion as well. I think the main reason why people dislike him is the pace of his class. He starts off really slow but goes super fast after the first midterm. We had to study two chapters on our own for the final and I think that's why people messed up.

Grading:
10% homework + 5% group assignments + 20% midterm 1 + 20% midterm 2 + 45% final
OR 10% homework + 5% group assignments + 25% better midterm + 60% final

Professor Koffi is a good person with the best intentions, but my man can't stay on schedule if his life depended on it. From the first week we were already behind and after that we never managed to catch up. His teaching philosophy prevents him from moving on to the next topic until "everyone" understands, which is good in principle but not effective in practice. We ended up rushing to finish a lot of material at the end (meaning 4 homework assignments in 3 days [WITH 20 PROBLEMS EACH]), and he ultimately lost a lot of students on the way. If you do have the misfortune of taking this course, don't despair, just go to every review session and do the homework as it comes. If you attend the review sessions and master the material on it then you will know exactly what's going to be on the exam. If you have to take 32B after taking his class, I recommend reviewing material from the textbook on your own during break cause otherwise you'll be mad confused. Oh, and just pray for a good TA.

Professor Enakoutsa is a very lively man and his tests for the most part are fair and reasonable as long as you attend his review sessions (he doesn’t allow cheat sheets though). That being said, I wouldn’t recommend his class for several reasons.

The first would be his pacing. Enakoutsa progressed very slowly throughout the first part of the quarter, which resulted in us having to watch an extra lecture the week of finals on a topic that would supposedly be tested on the final. He also assigned two homework assignments (each 20+ problems) the weekend before finals.

The workload is fairly heavy as well. Although he does push due dates all the way to the end of the quarter, it is still a solid amount of work and if you don’t keep up with assignments it piles up.

Finally, Enakoutsa is difficult to understand. He has an accent, which would be ok if he had good lecture slides. However, his slides are entirely handwritten with hardly any useful information on them and his handwriting is atrocious, to the point of being almost illegible.

Professor Enakoutsa is a funny professor and seems to be a kind person. However, he can be a little disorganized. In addition to this, he many times refused to answer questions about grading and told our class to simply "relax". Although the class was very frustrating to take, the tests were fairly simple. The questions he does at the review sessions were essentially the same as the test. Many of his students also end with an A.

Overall I think Koffi was a great professor. He genuinely cared about his students and how we learned. While in class he did sometimes go over material quickly, he always encouraged people to ask questions, and had plenty of office hours. His midterm and final review sessions were also super helpful and made the tests much more manageable. He always gave extensions on the homework and with the TA strike going on this past quarter he took over their discussion times and added more zoom office hours for questions. While Math 32A is a difficult class, Koffi’s resources and overall teaching skills make it easier and more enjoyable.

Koffi is a really nice professor with relatively easy midterms and exam, his homework load is on the heavier side around 30-40 questions per week

Very easy class as long as you do the homework and attend the review sessions. There is a lot of homework but it is manageable, and the tests are definitely a lot easier than many of the homework problems. His tests will often be like the questions in his review sessions, so definitely attend those. I would recommend asking TAs or other classmates for help with the homework problems you can't do. Koffi himself was very nice and did his own discussions during the TA strike. He also will offer extensions on homework if you ask for them, which helped reduce a lot of stress throughout the quarter.

Take this class! It is probably one of the easiest math 32a classes out there. The professor does review sessions that have all of the material on the midterms, some of the questions are even just rehashed from the review. The final is also fairly straight forward as long as you practice. The homework's take 5 to 10 hours but it's once a week and the professor extends their deadline to the end of the quarter. They are for the most part just calculation but a couple of the problems will be difficult proofs. The professor can be a bit difficult to understand and his handwriting can be a bit ambiguous but the content is very clear and the textbook is really good. Overall a very good class.

Koffi is a truly wonderful professor! His lectures are pretty engaging, and he makes some light-hearted jokes to keep things interesting. The lectures are a bit fast at times, but he is always willing to stop or slow down if anyone has questions. Additionally, in his office hours, he is always extremely helpful and patiently clarifies concepts (no matter how many times someone asks!). He also replies to emails pretty promptly. If you have questions, don't hesitate to ask Koffi!

The homework can be long but ultimately it's good practice, and the hard deadline (since he extends it) is the end of the quarter. Don't get too behind on homework though: if you can't finish the relevant homework before an exam, you don't get the practice.

Before midterms and the final, he holds 2-3 review sessions before that basically cover the exact type of questions the exam has. He even holds nighttime office hours just so the students feel extra prepared.

As a supplement, the textbook is really useful, so it's worth reading if you're confused on something when doing homework. Something else I realized was that even though I took notes, I never ended up looking through most of them. Koffi posts his notes too so those and the textbook (in my opinion) are probably enough for reviewing before tests.

In conclusion, Koffi is a GREAT professor, and I am sad that I won't have him for 32B. Work hard, and you'll do well in his class!