Contrary to the other reviews I thought Prof. Pamarti was an engaging lecturer who had a lot of passion for the subject matter. He really does teach digital circuits with a lot of knoweedge and depth. 115C is a really dense and information/formula heavy class but he does make all the exams fully open note (paper only). I got a lower grade because I messed up on the first exam but overall I felt that if I would have been able to lock in a little bit better an A would not have been out of the question. He does not curve the class at all, but for this quarter all groups got a 100 on the group project which seemed to be a built-in curve. Average grade ended up being a B with a lot of students getting A's and C's.

The professor does his best to help students. HOWEVER, this is not an easy class. Maybe it's because I'm not an EE major and I did not take 115A, but I spent most of my time this quarter on this class and still ended up with a D+.

Had 115c in Spring of 2012.

GREAT professor. Class was 8am and he was very understanding about it. Podcasted and slides. Homework was a little hard to get started on but the TA (Vikrant, who isnt at UCLA anymore) was ridiculously helpful. The professor is helpful at OH as well. At the end the HW wasnt bad at all - if you get stuck go to OH.

Exams were very similar to the HW. If you actually did the HW then the exams shouldnt be anything to stress about (can have slides during exams too).

The project was really easy but i think it's because the TA made it so. The TA also help extra OH in the computer labs so he helped a bunch of people through it too. It was a group project (2 people).

If you can, take him.

I had Pamarti for 110 in Fall 2009 and 115C in Winter 2011. He has changed a lot since then. He obviously doesn't care about his students and he makes it so obvious. His attitude is just terrible - incredibly condescending and a general feeling of "I can't believe I have to teach you idiots." The first few homeworks were marathon style, full of typos that made problems impossible. He also changed parameters on the homework arbitrarily, long after they were assigned.

Grading was very unfair on the midterm - Pamarti graded it, not the TA. I had points docked for putting down that the parasitic delay of an inverter is 1 (and the definition too!) with big red question "WHY???". Apparently he wanted to see that 0.4/0.4 = 1 or some other crap like that. Somehow, plugging numbers into the equation after writing it down shows that you understand it from first principles, but skipping the 0.4/0.4 calculation means that you are just plugging and chugging along.

When I took 110 with him, I felt that he was distant but very fair and an excellent teacher, and that he cared about us getting an intuition for circuits. He doesn't care anymore, and his arrogance is inappropriate - I have never felt this from much more distinguished professors. If you can, avoid him.