Christina P Fragouli
Department of Electrical Engineering
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4.3
Overall Rating
Based on 3 Users
Easiness 2.0 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 4.7 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 3.0 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 4.7 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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GRADE DISTRIBUTIONS
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24.8%
19.8%
14.9%
9.9%
5.0%
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

49.1%
40.9%
32.7%
24.5%
16.4%
8.2%
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B
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

33.3%
27.8%
22.2%
16.7%
11.1%
5.6%
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A
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

31.4%
26.1%
20.9%
15.7%
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

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Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: A
Verified Reviewer This user is a verified UCLA student/alum.
Dec. 25, 2023

I enrolled in this class as a CS undergrad. This class is hard, but very manageable; Fragouli does a great job at breaking down the subject and the course notes are very comprehensive.

You do not need to be very good at linear algebra to succeed in this class (Math 33A is probably enough). You should be comfortable representing systems of equations as matrices and taking transposes of block matrices. Although nothing fancy is required in terms of linear algebra, this class is still math-heavy and mostly theoretical.

The homework can get difficult, but prepares you well for exams. If you invest enough time, you will do well. The TAs and discussion sections are also very helpful. There was a group project this quarter (up to 4 people) about applying linear programming to machine learning; you will have to write code and do a report.

The latter half of the class has an algorithmic focus, especially when it comes to Max Flow and its many variants. CS 180 will help, but not by much.

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Quarter: Fall 2022
Grade: B
Feb. 22, 2023

Professor teaches the concept very well intuitively no doubt about it, tests are difficult, Assigments are difficult but the grades are curved, I personally felt that sometime having test which are relatively easier can make you fall in love with subject, if not subconciously we feel, how much ever you know its hard to score in test because concepts covered in class and discussion class problems can help in solving assigments but exams will be completely out of these two. If you are someone new to LP , then they need to put in lot of effort. Sildes are great source of notes and you do not need any text book apart from that. solving statment problems and how to approach should be thought so that we can go above and beyond, if not we will still be trying how to approach and there is no scope for goingbeyond, it seems like I hate the subject to be honest the subject is simple great if you want to understand how optimization works.

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Quarter: Fall 2022
Grade: A-
Verified Reviewer This user is a verified UCLA student/alum.
Feb. 5, 2023

One of my favorite profs in EE. Material is very well explained, homeworks are challenging (but doable), and exams are quite hard but the curve helps significantly.

Prep for exams by focusing on lecture review, and for the final make sure to study lots of different max flow/min cut problem variants.

Fragouli is such a good professor by EE standards it's honestly confusing.

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Verified Reviewer This user is a verified UCLA student/alum.
Quarter: Fall 2023
Grade: A
Dec. 25, 2023

I enrolled in this class as a CS undergrad. This class is hard, but very manageable; Fragouli does a great job at breaking down the subject and the course notes are very comprehensive.

You do not need to be very good at linear algebra to succeed in this class (Math 33A is probably enough). You should be comfortable representing systems of equations as matrices and taking transposes of block matrices. Although nothing fancy is required in terms of linear algebra, this class is still math-heavy and mostly theoretical.

The homework can get difficult, but prepares you well for exams. If you invest enough time, you will do well. The TAs and discussion sections are also very helpful. There was a group project this quarter (up to 4 people) about applying linear programming to machine learning; you will have to write code and do a report.

The latter half of the class has an algorithmic focus, especially when it comes to Max Flow and its many variants. CS 180 will help, but not by much.

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Quarter: Fall 2022
Grade: B
Feb. 22, 2023

Professor teaches the concept very well intuitively no doubt about it, tests are difficult, Assigments are difficult but the grades are curved, I personally felt that sometime having test which are relatively easier can make you fall in love with subject, if not subconciously we feel, how much ever you know its hard to score in test because concepts covered in class and discussion class problems can help in solving assigments but exams will be completely out of these two. If you are someone new to LP , then they need to put in lot of effort. Sildes are great source of notes and you do not need any text book apart from that. solving statment problems and how to approach should be thought so that we can go above and beyond, if not we will still be trying how to approach and there is no scope for goingbeyond, it seems like I hate the subject to be honest the subject is simple great if you want to understand how optimization works.

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Verified Reviewer This user is a verified UCLA student/alum.
Quarter: Fall 2022
Grade: A-
Feb. 5, 2023

One of my favorite profs in EE. Material is very well explained, homeworks are challenging (but doable), and exams are quite hard but the curve helps significantly.

Prep for exams by focusing on lecture review, and for the final make sure to study lots of different max flow/min cut problem variants.

Fragouli is such a good professor by EE standards it's honestly confusing.

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4.3
Overall Rating
Based on 3 Users
Easiness 2.0 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 4.7 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 3.0 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 4.7 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

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