I really don't understand why Professor Salazar has so many harsh reviews... throughout this summer course, he has been very kind and understanding. On numerous occasions, he has shown that he cares about his students and wants them to fully grasp the concepts he teaches:

a. He creates discussion forums on CCLE for students to post questions about the homework questions, and he answers them thoroughly and promptly
b. He sets very lenient deadlines for all the quizzes and homeworks in an attempt to decrease the stress of online learning
c. He places much less emphasis on exams (15% for each midterm and 10% for the final) than he does on the weekly quizzes (40% on 8 quizzes spread throughout the course), because he believes that consistent efforts matter much more than single-day performances
d. He even changed the conditions for the final exam to accommodate for a Scholarly Strike (on behalf of BLM) that took place during Finals week.

While it's true that he occasionally rambles or makes mistakes during the lectures, the majority of his lectures were pretty clear. More importantly, his grading scheme, his homework assignments, and his quizzes/exams were all very fair and low-stress.

nice guy

I liked Professor Salazar, his class was straightforward and easily doable.
I didn't particularly like his teaching style, as he uses slides for his lectures, but this is my own opinion, as I don't like following slides in math classes. In addition, Professor Salazar wasn't very clear with his lectures and it can feel a bit disorganized at times.
I actually stopped showing up to lectures after the first couple, and I only ever really watched the lectures to get logistical information.

However, I think that his class overall was pretty easy, his exams were mostly computational and very similar to his homework and practice problems.

The entirety of my studying for this class was doing the homework and practice problems he assigned, and I really never showed up to his lectures.

Exams
His exams were very straightforward, pretty short, and mostly computational, and as I mentioned, his exams were of similar style to the practice problems he assigned.
I would actually say that his exam questions were the same questions as his practice problems, but with numbers changed.
He had maybe one or two conceptual questions, and they were also very straightforward and was just a true or false question with no justification needed.
So I never felt that I was being tricked or tested on something that I wasn't exposed to.

Near the end of the course, 33A content starts to become much more relevant, but it stayed mostly computational, and his assigned practice problems pretty much went over all you need to know, so it's definitely possible to take this class before 33A. (I can't speak for the content of other 33B courses, but Professor Salazar's 33B didn't draw upon too many conceptual concepts of 33A)

Overall, I don't think he deserves as low a score as he has on Bruinwalk, I think it is true that his lectures can feel a bit disorganized and unclear at times, but he is a very kind professor and his exams were very straightforward and extremely fair.
His practice problems were great to study with and were indicative of his exam questions, and even though I never showed up to lecture, I ended up with an A in the class just from doing his assigned practice problems.
I did not take 33A before this class, but I never felt at a disadvantage because of it.

If you are willing to put in the work to study yourself and do as much practice as you can, this class is definitely on the easier side.

Worst Math professor ever!! His lecture is not clear and explanation is useless, so do not expect to learn something from class but just do your own study.