Koffi is a very nice professor. Even though sometimes I cannot understand what he said during the class, it doesnt quite matter lol. His lecture slides are VERY USEFUL. If you dont have time to attend his lecture, make sure you go over his lecture slides and understand every SINGLE EXAMPLE QUESION so that you can perform well in HW and the exam.

There are some tricky questions in the exam in which the wording is weird. You might lose some points on that but the other calculate-based questions are easy. Be sure to get clear with basic concepts. The workload of this class is not that light but not that heavy as well, you can manage that within a day or two for the weekly homework.

To put it plainly, if you take him you'll have a homework each week (no exception) with on average 25 exercises but it can go as much as 40, which takes on average 7 to 15 hours. It's a heavy workload, especially when you have him in 2 classes (would not recommend at all, I had 60 to 80 exercises a week just with these 2 classes, it was a nightmare).
He doesn't drop any grade (not flexible at all on that), but you can give back all homework until the last day of the last week.
For the test, it was covid so we had 24 hours, it was honestly not that bad compared to the homework and the course. Everything was doable, but clearly not in 50 minutes as he said, more in 5 to 6 hours. But doable, not impossible.

Grading:
10% Homework &
5% Discussion Worksheets &
22.5% Midterm 1 + 22.5% Midterm 2 + 40% Final OR
30% Best Midterm Score + 55% Final
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There is one homework assignment per week, he extends deadline till the end of the quarter for many of them. The homework assignments get pretty hard since he includes problems from the back of the sections, but they're doable if you go to office hours or find a study group. Find a good study group you can compare answers with because around 80% of the homework assignment is few questions graded on accuracy and rest is for completion.
Midterms tend to be easier than homework. The questions are similar to his review sessions so make sure to attend those and understand how to do those problems fully. Finals are similar, but the questions are somewhat harder. Make sure to not silly errors on tests like me because those cost a lot of points.
He uploads pre-recorded lectures online and also some in-class recordings. He also uploads review session recordings. Make sure to watch them.
Sometimes, his lectures can be hard to understand. Make sure to read the book then.
The content isn't easy, but it's possible to get an A-/A if you do all the homework and start studying for midterms/finals a week in advance. I would recommend this.

Koffi is overall a fantastic professor. The tests are very very straightforward if you did the first half of the back problems in the textbook. His exam review sessions are very helpful and you can score 75% without studying if you just attend them. Sometimes his lecture becomes big and hard but his prerecorded videos are small and soft. It is easy to lose marks on his midterms due to silly errors because they consist of only 4 qs but 25 marks each holy damn Barack Hussein Obama! He is also very cute and unpredictable so even if you do not understand his material because of his accent, you will have so much fun in his class. He does not look down upon pets in class since he loves animals. I would definitely retake this professor if it was possible. If any of you have a tattoo however, then I suggest you find a different professor. Good Luck everyone.

Koffi is a nice man. However, this was one of the most difficult classes I have ever taken. The material is tough to understand because he explains what he’s about to do, and then solves problems without explaining them step by step. This made it very difficult to understand mathematical concepts that are crucial for the class. In many cases, I would find myself attending lecture and then being lost halfway through the homework. That’s the other issue with the Professor. He assigns many practice problems to help with the basics of what he is teaching, but assigns others that are proof based and almost impossible to solve. He expects his students to understand these problems and ask for help during office hours if they struggle. However, every time I went to discuss the problems with him he would solve them without explaining any of his steps or reasoning. With his exams based off many of these difficult problems, I spent hours and hours working on the tests only to land up with bad grades. The main problem is thus a lack of clarity when lecturing, a massive and unnecessary homework course-load, and difficult and almost impossible exams that are much more difficult than anything done during class. Until these problems are fixed I cannot, in good conscience, recommend Koffi as a professor.

He's a very kind professor and is very helpful, but unfortunately, he isnt really clear or consice with his teaching. His ideas are choppy and all over the place and I could barely follow through with his accent and low-quality microphone ( I took him during the quarantine btw). He holds extra office hours every now and then, but i'd have to rewind the lecture videos every 5 min to fully understand what he's explaining.

Enakoutsa is a very nice professor and truly wants every student to succeed. This is his first quarter here and he had a rough start with the pacing and had to post additional videos which I was not a fan of, but he quickly adapted and was more efficient. The homework amount was very reasonable, and going through slader for problems I did not know how to do helped a lot. He was not required to explain the conceptual part of the math, but when he did I didn't follow what he was saying very well.
The material for 32A is computational, and he does a good job at going through examples and answering questions and I would most definitely choose him again for this class if I were to go back, but for a non computational math class such as 32B I would be hesitant to choose him. His tests are very reasonable and GO TO THE REVIEW SESSIONS. He goes over exactly what you need to know and I found them very helpful.

Koffi is a very kind and approachable professor who is passionate about teaching. However, this was his first quarter at UCLA, and I think he had a difficult time adjusting to the pace of the quarter system having previously taught only on the semester system. At the beginning of the course, he spent a lot of time on concepts that didn't really need that much elaboration, resulting in him not finishing on time and assigning hours of prerecorded lectures for us to watch. He realized this wasn't a sustainable approach, though, and stopped doing this, seemingly learning to manage instructional time better in the coming weeks. Homework was challenging and long, and it's very easy to lose points, so I highly suggest comparing answers with classmates or verifying them online. He gave two midterms and a final, all of which were pretty fair, as well as timed quizzes which counted as 10% of your midterm grade.

He is very approachable during office hours and also hosted a few optional test review sessions. He doesn't always explain things in the clearest way during lectures, so office hours are very helpful if you didn't understand the material that well. Lastly, he does have a thick accent, but I don't really think it made him hard to understand. Some of my criticisms of Koffi are a result of his transition to the quarter system rather than his actual teaching ability, so keep that in mind. I'm sure that he will improve over time.

Prof. Enakoutsa is a very nice person and does seem to care about his students. Unfortunately, it's hard to understand his lectures sometimes due to his accent and choppy mic. Sometimes he tries drawing diagrams during lectures, but, to be expected, it's hard to draw clear 3D diagrams, so you're better off looking at the book's diagrams. The prof almost never strays from the book's material, so when his lectures become hard to understand, just read the corresponding chapter in the book. Sometimes, the tests had vague/unclear questions, but Prof was pretty responsive and made sure to not include those types of questions on the final. I wouldn't actively try to take his class again because I feel the learning was a bit slow, but if I end up with him again, I wouldn't mind.

Dislikes: Koffi is a good professor, but his way of lecturing is a little sporadic. For instance, he doesn't make pre-made slides or anything like that; he just writes everything on Notability or some kind of digital note-taking app on his iPad. What's more, he doesn't write that stuff during lectures, it's all pre-written so a lot of times he goes faster than anticipated because he has his stuff already written down which makes it hard to copy down example problems or long theorems. If he is still recording his lectures or making YouTube videos, I would definitely recommend just watching those instead of going to in-person class (something that I ended up doing after like Week 3). Additionally, he is known for assigning essentially all the problems for each section of the chapter in the textbook, but the nice thing is that he lets you submit them till the end of the quarter. I took advantage of this as I was finishing up a couple of assignments after the final and submitted them on the very last day. ---On top of that, a lot of people complain about his thick accent and point to that making him a bad instructor, but this is my opinion about it. A lot of people have had instructors who have very good English or speak English as their first language, but honestly, you will continually be learning in the real world and not everyone you will be learning from will have perfect English or you'll be able to understand completely, so I think that this a good opportunity for students—especially those that only speak one language—to practice understanding what someone is saying despite their accent and also to practice showing respect for someone who is doing their best with the language. Also, there was an incident in 2020 where individuals "ZoomBombed" his class —took control of the meeting and made him unable to leave—and preceded to harass him by calling his racial and homophobic slurs (you can read more about this by looking up the DailyBruin article). I didn't know about this until someone told me but the fact that he is still here teaching after that says a lot about his character and I really admire him not only for having the courage to continue to teach here after that but also for learning English and being able to teach in that language. ~That's the end of my rant, but the purpose of it was to recognize the effort that Koffi is putting in by being an instructor, and to think of his struggles and what he's been through before you go complaining saying "Omg his accent makes this class such a struggle, he's such a bad teacher, I should have taken someone else."---However, the reason this is in the dislikes section isn't that I don't like the way that he verbally communicates with the class; it is because of the way he communicates through writing. His handwriting is like 1800s caligraphy so half the time I spend watching his videos it's like deciphering ancient text. This is why taking the time to understand him while he is speaking is that much more important because it is very difficult to read his handwriting.

Tips: Definitely take advantage of Discussion sections and OH. Because Koffi assigns almost all the problems for each chapter section, this will include the very last questions for each chapter which are usually weird derivations and proofs. Honestly, though, he only grades like 3 questions from a 30 questions problem set, and looking at which problems ended up being graded—revealed after the quarter via gradescope—it is usually some of the more basic and beginning questions, not usually the harder derivations. You never know though so I would definitely recommend just going to your TA and asking them to do the weird derivations for you or just help walk you through it. Additionally, I mostly made use of my TA's for Homework help, but I would highly recommend you go to Koffi's review sessions leading up to the test. They can sometimes be a little erratic and sometime's he makes algebra mistakes, but take note of the kinds of problems that he does during review because those are usually what ends up on the test. Another thing to note is that he will send you an email like a week or so before the test with the exact topics that will be tested, but if you go to his office hours on the night before or even a couple nights before the exam, he will usually give you hints/more specifics on what will be tested so definintely take advantage of that. Even if he doesn't end up giving you more details on the kinds of questions, going to the office hours the night before will help you because he will typically end up going over some of the harder points of the material.

Overview: As a whole, Koffi was one of my favorite professors who really cared about his students and made the entire class smile with one of his light-hearted giggles <3. He assigns a lot of homework but as a whole, he is very lenient with deadlines and if you buy the physical textbook there is an answer key in the back (otherwise if you use an online version of the textbook, you can find an older version of the textbook with a solution manual where most of the questions are still the same so the older solution manual still works). Some issues that you'll probably run in too are reading his handwriting, his quick lectures, and those long long assignments, but as a whole, the first part of 32A is pretty easy, and even when it gets hard, it never gets too bad so it shouldn't be that bad of a class. Overall, would recommend :)