He's an awesome professor! His lectures are very clear and straightforward. Homework and exams are perfect reflections of the lectures so they are extremely fair. Took this during COVID, so the one midterm and final were 24 hours.

This is a review for Math 151B. This class is taught very differently from Math 151A. The professor teaches fine but the exams are very difficult and class average is very low. Without extra credit opportunities the grades for this class would be horrific.

I'm a math major, and this class was without a doubt the easiest math class I've taken in my three years at UCLA. The professor is super organized, so the lecture notes are always posted to Bruin Learn immediately after class, and I would say you could probably get an A in this class just by reviewing lecture notes and never actually attending class. The homework and exam problems are very similar to example problems provided during class; I don't think we ever got any surprising questions/concepts on assessments that we had not seen before.

Professor Maimaitiyiming is a terrific professor and his Math 151A was a great breath of fresh air amongst the cesspool of proof based, theoretical and sometimes vague math upper divs.
His lectures were clear and tells you EVERYTHING you need to know to succeed in the course.

Homework:
Homework was very straightforward, lifted straight from the examples he goes over in class, with literally some numbers changed. I actually got a 99% in the homework category, and I don't consider myself to be that great at math. Considering the homework category was a hefty 49% of the overall grade, having straightforward homework was a blessing. Plus he drops the lowest homework.

Midterm:
Just one midterm, worth 20%. Pretty straightforward as well, lifted STRAIGHT from his homework, with numbers changed. In fact one of the questions on his midterm was the exact same question on one of his homeworks.

Final:
Worth 30%, same idea as the midterm, however there was one or two questions that was a bit more difficult, while the rest were lifted straight from his homeworks as well.

Coding:
There are a couple of coding assignments, but they aren't difficult at all. The book has pseudocode for every assigned algorithm, and my TA actually did some of the coding assignments for us in section. Professor Maimaitiyiming specified that he does not run your code, he only looks over it, so my guess is, as long as you get the overall idea, you shouldn't lose any points on the coding.

Overall, terrific professor. Professor Maimaitiyiming has clear lectures, clear homework, clear exams. I would take him again in a heartbeat.