I personally really enjoyed this class. I was nervous going into it because I had taken a few quarters off from taking any PIC classes but professor Azencot made it pretty easy for me to jump back into it. His teaching style works really well for me. He typically poses a question about how to do something and makes students think through how they would do it. Then proceeds to show us the right way to do it. If you engage in class and really try to think things through it works really well. I learned so much in class I barely had to study for the exams outside of class. The tests were fair and not too difficult although the timing was definitely tight, but I might just take a while to think through programming problems. Our TA went over how to do the homework every week so if you attended section (which happens twice a week) at least semi-regularly you should do pretty well on the homework. The lecture slides and code done in class are posted online so they are easy to go back and to refer to. Professor Azencot might not have had the best ratings but he is honestly one of my favorite and most effective professors I've had at UCLA.

don't take this class