Dr. Huang is an excellent teacher.

Her lectures are hard to follow if and only if the students don't give her any indication whether they understood what she meant. Whenever any student asks any questions, she is patient enough to answer the questions in details. Also, do not neglect the office hours! She is willing to answer any questions you have regarding the course material, and she can even guide you through if you have any troubling about learning math in general.

She has been getting feedback from her students consistently throughout time and is making progress that everyone can see. Maybe she is not the best lecturer yet, but she has been improving a lot even in the same quarter, so I believe she will become a famously excellent teacher very soon.

Also, for a non-math major, math 61 deserves one's time. As most people know, math-61 is not intended for only math majors (it is a CS major requirement), and the course difficulty has been decreased astonishingly from what one should expect from a course in discrete math, which is math-180. Math-61 covers a lot of basic concepts that were usually assumed knowledge of in a math course intended for math majors only and cannot be more friendly to non-math people. What is difficult is NOT what the professor covers but what the concepts are actually are. One should not blame an instructor simply because a course that is intrinsically difficult was taught.

As someone who took both Math 33A and 61 with Professor Huang, I can say that though she can definitely continue to improve the clarity of her lecturing, she’s overall very nice and helpful, and I recommend taking math classes with her. She’s always responsive through email and willing to answer students’ questions. The homework, quizzes and exams are mostly straightforward, manageable, and come from the lecture examples. An easy A if you put a reasonable amount of time studying and doing the work required.

Professor Longxiu does her best, but her lectures can be confusing at times. Her lecture notes are taken directly from the textbook, so I would often go there for clearer explanations. But overall, the class is pretty standard, and not too difficult. There is homework (3 questions) and a quiz (1 question) every week, with a midterm and final. The midterm was relatively difficult, but the final had a much longer time limit, and it wasn't hard to get a good grade.

Professor Huang is definitely not the best lecturer although you can tell she is definitely trying to improve. She was willing to take into consideration how we wanted to go through the notes and learn the material and teach accordingly. The material for this class is, in general, pretty straightforward so you shouldn't have too bad of a time teaching yourself when the lectures are not very clear. The homework were pretty light and didn't take too much time - usually there were about 4 questions. We had weekly quizzes on Mondays as well which were generally based on the homework due that week on Friday so if you did the homework before the quizzes were pretty manageable. The midterm was a little tough to finish in the time span given, but was not given much weight in your grade (I think 20%). The final was MUCH easier and definitely doable if you understood the homework.

Unfortunately, this class is going to be mostly self taught if you take it with Huang. The material itself isn't very hard though, so you can mostly get by on just reading the lecture notes she posts. She does weekly quizzes, one midterm, and a final. The quizzes are a mixed bag, with some being difficult, and some being a joke. The midterm was pretty hard and tough to finish on time, but the final was extremely easy.
Overall, a pretty easy math class that has a really light workload. All you really have to do is understand material from lecture notes, do the three required homework problems each week and understand them, and that's about it. Side note however, the grading is somewhat annoying, and she doesn't really give solutions to anything.

Professor Huang is very nice and she's always patient to answer questions. However, although she is always trying to explain materials better, her lectures are often unclear and hard to understand. It is more efficient to go over her lecture notes. Exams are not hard as long as you do all the hw and review before exams.

Professor Huang is a really nice person, yet she really needs to improve her lecture skills. The lectures consist of mostly her reading off lecture notes and it gets confusing sometimes when it comes to some difficult concepts. Math 61 is not a hard class and taking it with Huang is tolerable since she is really helpful in her office hour, yet I would not recommend her to anyone who would take this class since I feel like personally I did not learn as much as I intended to in this class.

I would only recommend Professor Huang for Math 61 if this class isn't important for you, and you just want an easy A. If you want to actually master the material (probably any math and CS majors!), don't take Professor Huang. Her lectures consisted of her mostly reading and working through examples from notes that were copied almost identically from Professor Gehret, who taught this class Winter 2019. On her notes, it's easy to see where she made changes/additions because they're typically the parts riddled with spelling and grammar mistakes.

For online learning, her class had weekly quizzes. We were given about 20 minutes for the quizzes, and they tended to be *very* similar to homework problems. They could be tricky, but if you did the homework before the quiz, they'd be pretty straightforward. Homework, unsurprisingly, was also light, with maybe 4 or 5 problems max.

The midterm was a little challenging, but the final was an absolute joke. She basically took one problem from each HW, tweaking them ever so slightly (Dijkstra's Algorithm on the same graph, but different starting node). At least one problem was copied verbatim.

Professor Huang's grading scheme might be the best part of this class. She guarantees that a 93+ scores an A, with the potential to curve upwards if class scores are low. But apparently, before the final, the class median was close to a 90, so there wasn't any need for that this quarter.

Both TAs for the course were awesome though!

She is a decent instructor.

Professor Huang is a nice person but sadly not a great professor. Her lectures were pretty confusing so I usually just read the lecture notes and went over examples from the textbook.
There is homework due once a week (only 8 total) and it was manageable and never took too long. There were 6 weekly quizzes that varied in difficulty; the first few were pretty difficult and I found them hard to complete in the given time (20 min, including time to upload online) but the second half of them were actually really straightforward. The midterm was only challenging because it was hard to complete in the given time (70 min iirc) but the problems were all relatively fair and we had learned how to do them.
Overall, I'd say Huang was not great but if you have no other option it wouldn't be the end of the world. Definitely find some friends to talk to/work on problems with or make a group chat!