One of the nicest and most understanding professors at UCLA. We had 10 Homework assignments and each was worth roughly 10% of our final grade. You weren't allowed to work with anyone else on these but these homework assignments were very fair and doable as long as you paid attention and went to discussion sections.

Professor Abari does not have a mean bone in his body. He is so extremely kind and knowledgeable on the topics. The class has somewhat of a higher than average learning curve, but once you got it, it was fairly straightforward and logical.

I think Professor Abari did too good of a job, though. I think everyone did well so I'm expecting some sort of grade deflation unfortunately. We will see (I really hope not).

Overall, if you have the opportunity to take any class with professor Abari, take it. He is excited about the topics, and that kind of energy translates into the students as well. I only wish I could've taken the course in person.

Compared to the other professors that teach this course, I'd say that Abari is 100% a better professor and the one you would want to take the course with. However, like some of the other recent reviewers say, I feel like the course was still a little overrated.

There was an overall lack of organization, where I was unsure what material was covered in lectures and up until the final exam was administered, there was not a lot of communication given about the exam itself. Additionally, it was hard to find practice material/assistance for studying for the final exam. The exam was fairly difficult, but not impossible -- just felt a little out of place compared to the rest of the course. It was also hard to get clarifications about fundamental course concepts (the Piazza was not super active), which also feels a little weird for a lower div class.

bruinwalk disappointed me. hes the most overrated prof and his tests were not easy at all. the superb reviews you see are from his covid quarters where he didnt hand out any tests, only homework assignments. the TAs for this class were terrible. discussion wasnt even discussion, it was just office hours for the TAs to use. the TAs themselves barely answered your questions and they never checked the piazza board where ppl always asked questions. it wouldve been helpful if we were given discussion wksts since that wouldve made the homework and exams much easier. his midterm was pretty easy but his final was nothing like anything he taught us (w the exception of a few problems being similar to the review questions he went over on the last lecture of the qtr). the prof himself was quite rude if u asked him questions personally. he didnt have any annotated notes posted on bruinlearn so you were out of luck if you didnt write down the work he had. EXTREMELY overrated. do NOT take this class thinking you will get a free A

Abari's M51A class was definitely one of the easiest and most enjoyable CS classes I've taken at UCLA so far (compared to 31-33, 35L, 111, 180). This is greatly attributed to his teaching, pacing, accommodations, and grading. The subject material is relatively simple and occasionally fun (drawing k-maps is satisfying), and his teaching is clear and concise. He thoroughly works through many examples similar (if not identical) to the ones that appear on his homework and tests and answers students' questions helpfully. Abari also spends a lot of time reviewing what he went over in the previous class. Though this can be considered a downside because we spend a lot of time essentially repeating the same thing twice, it was very helpful for the more complicated concepts later in the course. He also released recorded lectures from last year for those who couldn't make it to class; a very kind gesture. While the class felt a bit rushed during the last two weeks, I would say that the quality of teaching and pacing was mostly high throughout the quarter.

Abari is also very fair on his exams and his TAs were extremely lenient on grading. 40% of our grade came from 4 homework assignments, 15% came from the midterm, and 45% came from the final. The homework assignments are extremely similar to the lecture and discussion examples, so they are mostly not difficult as long as you watch them. The midterm was the easiest exam I've ever taken at UCLA, with the average being 14/15. The final was harder due to the more complicated subject material later in the quarter, but there were no trick questions, and the average was 35/45. It appears that the graders were extremely lenient on partial credit.

It is very clear that Abari and his TAs want students to succeed in this class. It was a very good experience compared to many other classes. Very pog teacher and class 👍

Professor Abari is forever GOATED for this class. I never thought I'd enjoy designing gate diagrams or calculating minterms as much as I did. (I do not enjoy hardware one bit)

The lectures were super engaging and the professor made sure that each student understood every detail of each topic. Professor Abari also showed us interesting videos on the research being conducted in the computer hardware world and truly loved the material.

The weekly assignments were sometimes time-consuming but extremely fair. If you paid attention in class and attended discussions, you would have no problem in understanding and attempting the questions. The class having no midterms or finals helped remove a lot of stress during the quarter.

My TA was Sicheng Jia who conducted clear and interesting discussion sections with super helpful and fun examples.

Professor Abari was an incredibly kind and genuine professor with a contagious smile and mood. He is always ready to explain something a different way for students who don't understand a concept initially. Additionally, my TA Sicheng Jia was also very helpful with his slides and availability for assistance. As others have mentioned, only 1 homework assignment a week with no exams. During lecture breaks, we watched applications of the concepts we learned in class, showing off some cool devices.

Prof. Abari is a great professor who really knows his stuff. Very knowledgeable and teaches in a straightforward manner. His grading scale was way different than I was used to: ten homework assignments each worth about 10%, one assignment a week. Though some of these were tough, going to discussions made them a lot easier as you could ask as many questions as you needed, or work through very similar examples. Overall, I highly recommend Prof. Abari, just an overall good experience in this class.

Teacher is very clear, nice, and fun, and approachable. He explains things very clearly and is willing to reexplain concepts you don't understand. He shows cool research videos as a break during class too.

Class is fairly easy, in my online quarter we had 9 homeworks and that was the entire grade.
Just spend some time doing them and it should be no problem.

Material coverage was good, but perhaps we learned less than we would with a more rigorous EE professor.

GOATed