Just saw that Jose is teaching 32A again so I'm leaving this review. While it has been a year since I took this class, I can still say that he is the best math professor I've ever had. Take his class if you can.

The GOAT

chill guy and chill class. barely gives homework and the notes that he gives to fill out are pretty good. pay attention and study on ur own and you'll be fine

Prof. Yanez is awesome. He has a slight accent but from my perspective as a native English speaker it doesn't get in the way of understanding what he says. He is very energetic while teaching and if you indicate that you need any sort of help during class or at office hours (which were really helpful), he will go out of his way to make sure you get it. Each lesson he assigns a set of problems from the textbook, but at the end of the week you only needed to submit 2. The material it covers is pretty difficult as expected, but the midterms and final are extremely fair and doable. He was also kind enough to include two markschemes, one that weighs the midterms heavier if you did well on those and one that weighs the final much more and drops one midterm if you didn't do well on one of them.

he is wonderful and very kind, his lectures are always succinct. They were recorded and pretty similar to the textbook, but I would always go because he had a lot more enthusiasm for the subject than just if you were to read it on your own. Homework was always short, he would assign a problem set after every lecture, but really he only made you turn in 2 of them, but even the problem sets that were not required were manageable. His office hours were always helpful as well, and he was always willing to answer any question, overly conceptual or otherwise. He does proofs for certain things in class, but you were never expected to memorize any of them, it was just for understanding or if you forgot a formula or something, which was nice. Tests were always manageable and never unexpected.

Prof. Yanez is such a great and funny guy. Always starts off with a friendly “Hello!” and lectures with a smile.

Personally (coming from AP Calc in high school), I found that I understood the material best by reading the appropriate textbook section before each corresponding lecture and then Professor Yanez drove it home for me, especially in the earlier half of the class -- so be prepared to possibly have to read the textbook for this professor.

I really liked this professor! He was always kind and smiling in lecture, explained concepts clearly, and had a VERY fair hw policy. After every class, he would post a series of questions from the textbook that are good practice of the material we just covered, at the end of the week, only 2 of those questions will be asked to be uploaded and turned in as homework. To be clear, you only have to do those 2 questions if you feel confident with the material, or if you had a bad week with other classes! This is really great because you only have to study what you want and as much as you need to in order to learn a concept! Secondly, the tests felt very fair, and many of the questions were extremely similar to the practice problems the professor posted.
If you’re able to take this professor, take him!

I found this class to be straightforward/easy, but ik not everyone else did. Fully depends on your background in calculus. Show up to class, take notes, do the homework, and go to office hours with questions. My TA was Benjamin Major, and he is awesome. His discussions are useful because they help you grasp the theory/understand why certain formulas work, etc. His office hours are also great; he'll help you a ton with problems you don't understand.

There are two midterms and one final. Homework assignments are about ten problems after each lecture, but you don't turn them in. At the end of the week, it picks two problems from all that were assigned that week and has you turn them in. Check your work with a friend and it should be easy points.

The midterms are during the lecture (40-50 mins long) and have problems that are exactly like homework. Honestly, it's pretty predictable what kinds of problems will be tested on the midterm if you do all the homework problems. Also, none of them are word problems; he gives you the numbers straight up.