His exams were very fair. The final was a bit harder because we crammed the last chapter in two days but he curved generously. I do recommend taking this class from him.

Highlights: Super fun guy! He's sweet and occasionally funny. Lectures are pretty good and he has office hours that are somewhat helpful. Homework is definitely long and took 3-4 hours on average but overall pretty manageable if you have the time.

Lowlights: Genuinely I have no words for how difficult and out of the ordinary the final was. The content up to the first midterm and the midterm itself was exceptionally easy, we averaged around a 90. The content after the first midterm gets harder VERY quickly and the second midterm had average scores of around a C. Keeping in mind that if you didn't do great on either of the midterms the final has a 55% weightage on your grade, that final was ABSOLUTELY brutal. The difficulty of both midterms were pretty okay and it felt like the material got harder but was still manageable, especially as after the first midterm it does kind of theoretical and proof based. The weeks after the midterm, especially week 10 were a shitshow. The material is EXPONENTIALLY harder than the weeks before and was so exceptionally rushed that, despite the very very very difficult nature of the material, you have less time to learn it. The final itself was...no words. He had stressed that the final would weight post midterm 2 material heavier but the already hard questions were made so hard that there was no possible way you could wrap your head around them. The supposed to be easy questions were changed up so badly that even the easiest 1-part question took me almost 15 minutes to figure out. It was SO much harder than the homework, midterms, and even the practice final. Genuinely, there is no way to prepare for the level of that final, coming from someone who only had one actual final this quarter and spend all of their time studying for this. If you make it past midterm 2 and are not doing great, please just drop the class and save yourself the pain. The entire class left that final saying that it was the worst final they've ever taken and I agree (coming from a CS and applied math major mind you).

Overall, if anyone ever says that this class is an easy upper div, please don't listen to them! I personally would not take this class again, but hopefully the curve is good enough to pull through.