Love Bruce!! Super nice with grades and gave us an extra credit quiz worth 30 points. Can tell he is really passionate about computer science and tries really hard to help with all questions that come up. Something new for this quarter was that our 7th project was a open-ended design your own type project which I thought was really nice (adding on to/based on project 6). Overall a super nice professor and would definitely recommend taking CS31 with him over any other professor.
Also discussions aren't mandatory but I would recommend doing the optional worksheets as they are really useful in solidifying your understanding of the concepts.

Professor Huang is a great professor and I would highly recommend taking his course. Throughout the quarter, it was very clear to me that he cares a lot about teaching and the quality of the content that he puts out. His lectures and slides are easy to understand and he's extremely accommodating and willing to help out his students. In addition, there were a ton of useful resources available. In terms of how the course was constructed, the exams and projects were fair and the course ran smoothly!

Huang's an energetic professor who explains things well and evidently cares a lot about his students. He was super understanding with misunderstandings in CCLE and would do his best to clarify things through email or on Piazza. Would recommend if he teaches again

Hi, just coming on you to affirm what others are saying. If you got an A in this class, good for you, but please do not lead people astray. This class is insanely easy. I have loads of coding experience and in comp sci, yet received a 71% on the midterm which tanked my grade. He didnt curve it even though the average was a 74% and despite getting almost everything correct, my code didnt compile because of minor errors and I was marked down 30%. Its honestly ridiculous. He is a nice enough guy and a decent lecturer, not as good as any other that teaches 31, but his grading policies are unfair and cryptic. on top of this, the projects are relatively easy as long as you put in the work, but if you so long as put an extra space before the output and the specs said otherwise, you will recieve a 0, and if the rest of the class did fine, you will be screwed and will not do well in this class. He doesnt care what you say to him, so dont bother emailing or seeing him in person, and if you do not have experience getting programs to work first try for hours upon hours of leetcode, avoid him at all costs because his tests are not fair. You will leave the room feeling confident as every and the next week you will bomb, it doesnt matter how prepared you feel, which just leaves you asking what you are even supposed to do next time. For the final, he doesnt give you youre grade to it but rather adds a little suspense so that when you open your transcript down the line, you just end up with a few letter grades lower when you also thought that the final was light. Takeaway: there is nothing you can do in this class to optimize your grades, and you will have to get insanely lucky that you dont make any MINISCULE mistakes, that the name of the game. He is just so rigid in his ways and not willing to listen to the students even if we all despise his grading scemes. Please avoid if possible, I tend to have good opinions on most professors if they are reasonable, but he is not.

vague instructions and unreasonable marking scheme

Easy A tbh

If you have no prior coding experience, I would suggest not to take CS 31 with Huang if you have any other options. I took him for winter, but had to drop week 9 because I had no fucking clue what was going on in class. He stutters a lot and can barely get out a coherent sentence. He's difficult to understand and he often leaves out little details that would make the material easier to understand. He's a bit all over the place. As I write this, I'm currently taking CS 31 with Stahl over the summer and he has been great. 10x better than Huang. Anyway, Huang just isn't a great lecturer. You can tell he likes teaching the class and is passionate about CS in general, but he just isn't an effective lecturer.

Okay so as someone who has done a year of high school coding Java this class was cake. It was a bit of a learning curve with C++ but they are very similar. I barely had to attend lectures/discussions except for in the beginning. However, I agree with another review I saw that if you have never coded before Huang is a little challenging. I would definitely utilize discussion time as mine was pretty much 2 hours of office hours. You can get plenty of help in this class especially since piazza is available and people respond super quick. Huang also realized people were struggling with grades at some point and added extra credit quizzes and extra points to the final and also moved our midterm online bc we wanted it to be. He cares a lot about cs and his students just really make sure u attend lectures and utilize discussions and piazza for project help if you have never coded before!

Listen, if you don't have coding experience do not take this class. All the good things you're hearing about Huang are from people who already know how to code. I have never coded before and Huang made this class so unnecessarily stressful and difficult. His lectures were extremely boring, hard to follow, and plain unhelpful. He clearly did not know how to teach coding at a beginner level. His tests aren't hard but he doesn't teach well enough for the content that is on them. The midterm was taken during week 4 or 5 and wasn't graded until week NINE. And even then some people's tests weren't even fully graded. I got a C- on the midterm which was around the average which was so nerve wracking and stressful since the final was two weeks later. Luckily he offered an extra credit quiz for up to 12 points on the midterm which alleviated some stress. The only reason I ended with an A is because we were allowed a cheat sheet on the final and I had exactly what was on the final and exactly an all-or-nothing 10 point extra credit question written on my cheat sheet so I ended up getting a 102 on the final. As for projects, his specs are actually TERRIBLE. He is so bad at explaining what he wants which results in the project averages to sometime be in the 70s and 80s. But again, if you have done programming before you will get an A, but if not it will be unnecessarily stressful.

i took this class as a non-STEM major so take this review with a grain of salt. Professor Huang is a great person, but he sucks at lecturing. what i mean is that he is very accommodating to students' opinions but most of the time, i feel like i am self-studying for the projects and exams. but i do think that's how it should be at UCLA regardless of what class you're taking. the TA's and LA's weren't that great either because i would ask them a couple questions regarding code and they would reply with a generic answer. overall, a pretty mid experience with this class.