About Levy:
Early time slots for classes are not Levy's fault.
Awesome professor, very friendly, very helpful, very understanding. My favorite professor at UCLA by far. Yeah, his jokes are cheesy at times, but he throws them in there to keep his students interested. The subject would be a bit borring without the flair he gives it. He's really goofy, but that makes him approachable. It's extremely evident that he really does care about his students.

About Phil 31:
Personally, I'm not a math person, I'm a philosophy person. How well you do in this class is completely dependent on how you look at it. If you're bad at math, and you look at this like a math class, then you'll do poorly. If you're bad at math, and you look at this as a series of puzzles, then you'll do well.

Just a warning, some of the concepts are not easily grasped at first teaching. You WILL have to devote an extra 1-2 hours a week either to go to office hours, or to the provided tutoring sessions. The tutors are all really flexible though, so if you can't make one of their scheduled times, they'll probably schedule one on one time with you.

Go to class! It's so easy to fall behind here. You cover new material every week. It only becomes more necessary after the first midterm. If you don't go, then you won't be able to do the homework. Homework will be your key to getting a good grade in this class (especially if you didn't do so well on the midterms).

Go to the gala review sessions! They're really helpful. Often held one to two days before a major test in the large CLICC room on 3rd floor Powell

In all, I highly recommend Levy, especially if you have to take 31

Professor Levy is my favorite. He is very quirky and easy to learn from!

Professor Levy is almost like your sweet grandpa. His jokes are rather cheesy but it's cute to see his effort to make the class laugh, and the class DOES laugh not because the jokes are funny but because of it's cheesiness. His lectures are fast paced so if you miss a lecture it's difficult to grasp and understand the material covered in lecture. He does post up his slideshow presentation on the course site but going to the lecture is MUCH easier on your mind than trying to understand the slideshows by yourself. The class is about logic so everything is logical. It's almost like math and I HATE math but I love the class. It really helped me to think much more logically and I got a 94% on the first midterm. I haven't finished the class yet but it's a very useful class. The midterm is taken not on paper but on the computer. So the whole class is divided into 3 waves and each wave has different times during the day where they get a computer lab either in Powell clicc or the CDH lab near Lu Valle. It's a good class to take if you are thinking about going to law school. There is no reading for the class, you don't have to buy any books for this class. EVERYTHING is online. There is something called the Terry Text which is the "book" for the class that explains the material. But if you go to lecture, you don't have to read the Terry Text. I only read the Terry Text if I needed something clarified during homework. Also if you have a hard time with homework and can't figure a problem out, you can go to one of many tutoring sessions where there are tutors who help you with the homework so you ALWAYS get 100% on your homework.

Levy is an excellent professor! He is very helpful and quite humorous. The class is designed in a way such that you will either understand everything or nothing at all. There are so many different ways that he provides access to tutors, TAs, etc. Midterms and final are open note and open book. Overall, interesting class. Not much more I could ask for.

I am writing this review before taking the final and without knowing my final grade.
Breakdown:
20% homework online on the logic program (Easy to get 100% on all hw if you go to tutors)
20% Midterm 1 (I got a 94%)
20% Midterm 2 (I got a 96%)
40% Final

Overall, this is one of my favorite classes I have ever taken at UCLA. Some people hate it, I love it. There is an online textbook but I only read it the first week of class and never read it again, and still managed to get As on the midterms. The professor teaches you everything you need to know in class, and although it's an 8am, his goofy personality makes me stay awake. You have to do the homework and practice to understand the material. 10/10 would recommend this class. I say that if you don't like the material by Week 2, you should probably drop this class as it only gets more in depth. This is not your regular read/write essays type of Philosophy class! LOVE IT

The person below gave a very unfair review of Prof. Levy. Saying that a professor should be grateful that people are attending 8 a.m lectures should say enough about whether the person below is a "good student" or not. The "pop quiz" that this person refers to wasn't even graded or taken in at all and he has only done this once thus far unlike what the reviewer below me is implying. It was purely to get students to think about certain questions. Steve is a really helpful and kind professor and if you spend enough time working with problems on Logic 2010, this class should be a breeze.

Levy is a merciless pedant, who never let up on his holier than thou logician B.S. even during a Wed./Fri. 8:00 AM class.
Don't take him, as he gives pop-quizes at the start of his 8:00 AM classes, even though he KNOWS that his students have other classes/obligations, and he should just be respectful of the fact that students attend at all.
I hate this man personally, for damaging my GPA (which was over 3.7 before I was subjected to his merciless, relentlessly boring Bullshit). I am NOT a bad student, this man is just a cruelly boring bastard, and a horrible Prof. that no one should ever take.
Any other class, any other instructor besides this guy!!!!!!!!!!!

Professor Levy is funny on lectures and on emails about midterms and finals! The content of this class, midterms and final are easy and it's like you're playing games for both homework and exams.

Almost everyone get full scores on homework.

I got 94, 98 and 200 for exams.

8 a.m. class. That alone should have scared me away from this class, but I thought I could handle it. I was wrong. This class sucked, for me. It's nothing what I expected it to be. I love philosophy, but this is not you're conventional philosophy. You just taking a crazy sentence and trying to make it into a symbol. Doesn't make sense, I know. Here is an example. If it is not the case that If Richard won't Terry will, Kit won't. This magically means, (~(~R->T)->~X). SEE! Stupid! It turns out to be basically math. I will say that I was a bad student though, and fell behind. I missed a few lectures, and that screwed me. Since it is a lot like math, you can't afford to fall behind, and I fell behind. As a final warning, do not think I am stupid! I got a 4.0 last quarter, but if you suck at math, and are not a morning person, do not take this class.
I just realized I evaluated the class, and not the professor, Levy is real cool. Funny too. But I had to drop the class, so this is sort of a conflicting statement.

GREAT CLASS. Professor Levy is such a cool old man and he's passionate about philosophy. This class isn't what I expected it to be. I had no background in Philosophy but did well. It requires a Free Software and the homework and tests are done on a a computer. Practice is extremely important to do well on the tests. He has like 8 tutors that are always available so its nearly impossible to do bad on the homework assignments that are due before every class. The homework isn't that bad and you go over similar problems in class. Midterms and Finals are open book and open note so a quick tip would be to print out similar problems (especially those on the practice tests) and use those as a guide for the actual tests. With this, you should be good to go. Not an easy A, but definitely a possible one.