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

Professor Yanez is a very passionate and efficient instructor! He is always positive and tries his best to help all students. He is very organized, as he consistently posts the lecture recordings, notes before and after lecture, and suggested problems. For Math32A I highly recommend you keep up and do the suggested problems the day of or the day after lecture! It's a lot to go over all of them right before midterms. Go to office hours, he's very helpful and will walk through difficult problems with you!
Midterms are very reasonable; keep in mind there aren't that many questions (as the test is only 50 minutes long) and the professor isn't evil and won't put a completely weird question in there.

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

Solid lectures. Homework is super manageable, as you really only have to do the 2 assigned questions out of a weekly list of practice questions.

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!