Caputo wasn't a bad professor, but he wasn't great. I think that the subject material of the class is a little complicated at first anyway, so the slight language barrier isn't very helpful at first. However, he is very open to helping you out in office hours and will arrange to meet you at alternate times if you can't make his office hours times. His midterms and final are not difficult if you are comfortable with variations of the homework and example problems. The one issue that I had with Caputo was that he took absolutely everything (lectures and example problems) straight from the book, so when looking for other problems to practice or variations of certain problems, I was very much limited. Overall, Caputo wouldn't be my first choice (I've head that Wiesbart is amazing), but don't worry about trying to change classes if you get stuck with him - you will be fine.

I thought Professor Caputo was a good teacher overall. He really is knowledgeable--it's just that the subject is not that easy to grasp at first. I'm not sure if he's still continuing to teach at UCLA or if he's going back to Italy but if he does teach 3C again, I would definitely recommend him. The key to Caputo's style of teaching is to do the homework problems and not overthink the concepts. Probability is all logic but the concepts that try to explain it are sometimes confusing. His tests were not hard at all; the only reason you wouldn't do so well is because of overthinking. He and the TAs really are generous with partial credit and the final exam was not bad at all. Caputo doesn't give you more than you can take; my other friends in Professor Weisbart's class covered stuff we didn't even talk about. If you really do the homework problems on time and keep on practicing (homework is collected and graded but doesn't count towards the final grade), then you should be fine. Definitely take Caputo if he is still teaching.