Omid Abari
Department of Computer Science
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4.8
Overall Rating
Based on 16 Users
Easiness 4.1 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 4.8 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 3.8 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 4.9 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

TOP TAGS

  • Uses Slides
  • Engaging Lectures
  • Appropriately Priced Materials
  • Often Funny
  • Would Take Again
GRADE DISTRIBUTIONS
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48.9%
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29.3%
19.5%
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Grade distributions are collected using data from the UCLA Registrar’s Office.

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Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A+
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March 29, 2021

One of the nicest and most understanding professors at UCLA. We had 10 Homework assignments and each was worth roughly 10% of our final grade. You weren't allowed to work with anyone else on these but these homework assignments were very fair and doable as long as you paid attention and went to discussion sections.

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Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: NR
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March 25, 2021

Professor Abari does not have a mean bone in his body. He is so extremely kind and knowledgeable on the topics. The class has somewhat of a higher than average learning curve, but once you got it, it was fairly straightforward and logical.

I think Professor Abari did too good of a job, though. I think everyone did well so I'm expecting some sort of grade deflation unfortunately. We will see (I really hope not).

Overall, if you have the opportunity to take any class with professor Abari, take it. He is excited about the topics, and that kind of energy translates into the students as well. I only wish I could've taken the course in person.

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Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
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March 26, 2021

Professor Abari is forever GOATED for this class. I never thought I'd enjoy designing gate diagrams or calculating minterms as much as I did. (I do not enjoy hardware one bit)

The lectures were super engaging and the professor made sure that each student understood every detail of each topic. Professor Abari also showed us interesting videos on the research being conducted in the computer hardware world and truly loved the material.

The weekly assignments were sometimes time-consuming but extremely fair. If you paid attention in class and attended discussions, you would have no problem in understanding and attempting the questions. The class having no midterms or finals helped remove a lot of stress during the quarter.

My TA was Sicheng Jia who conducted clear and interesting discussion sections with super helpful and fun examples.

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Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A+
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
March 21, 2021

Prof. Abari is a great professor who really knows his stuff. Very knowledgeable and teaches in a straightforward manner. His grading scale was way different than I was used to: ten homework assignments each worth about 10%, one assignment a week. Though some of these were tough, going to discussions made them a lot easier as you could ask as many questions as you needed, or work through very similar examples. Overall, I highly recommend Prof. Abari, just an overall good experience in this class.

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Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: NR
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Feb. 19, 2021

Teacher is very clear, nice, and fun, and approachable. He explains things very clearly and is willing to reexplain concepts you don't understand. He shows cool research videos as a break during class too.

Class is fairly easy, in my online quarter we had 9 homeworks and that was the entire grade.
Just spend some time doing them and it should be no problem.

Material coverage was good, but perhaps we learned less than we would with a more rigorous EE professor.

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Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: B+
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March 18, 2022

Professor Abari was an incredibly kind and genuine professor with a contagious smile and mood. He is always ready to explain something a different way for students who don't understand a concept initially. Additionally, my TA Sicheng Jia was also very helpful with his slides and availability for assistance. As others have mentioned, only 1 homework assignment a week with no exams. During lecture breaks, we watched applications of the concepts we learned in class, showing off some cool devices.

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Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: A+
Jan. 5, 2022

Professor Abari was one of the nicest teachers I've had in my life. He was always very upbeat and enjoyable to listen to, and as a bonus, told a lot of funny jokes. During breaks in the lectures, he would show us various videos of research applications in the field of CS, many of which were very interesting and somewhat related to the class topics. The class material was pretty interesting, it definitely builds upon itself which was kinda cool to see how by the end we were designing and analyzing entire systems, when in the beginning we were learning simple gates. I would highly recommend taking this class with Abari if at all possible. My TA was Sicheng Jia, who was also an incredible teacher. His section essentially went through all of the information needed to complete the homework. The grading scheme was just 10 HWs, each of which were roughly 10% of your grade. Not very hard, but I definitely learned a lot and had a very good time.

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Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: A
Dec. 29, 2021

Abari is a great professor. He is very caring about his students. He clarifies and breaks things down so they are easy to understand. The homework composed the whole grade and was very closely tied to lecture. Some of the homework assignments were a little long, but it was manageable and significantly less than other classes in this field.

The discussions were 2 hours long, which I felt was unnecessary. They could have been half the time. I had dozed off a few more times than I would like to admit during the discussion. Still, they had helped with the homework. I have heard that this class can be much more stressful with other professors (especially if you take ECE M16), so I am counting my blessings.

I highly recommend taking this class with this professor.

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Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: A+
Dec. 17, 2021

Abari is was such a great professor!!! His lectures were very simple and straight to the point while still being engaging (ofc I did listen in 2x speed, though). My favorite part of every class was when he would share youtube videos of research projects; they were always so interesting and motivating. The homework was not too long and very doable. I would recommend looking at discussion slides every week because usually they go over a little thing he didn't say in class that is applicable for the homework. With that said, I didn't find discussion super necessary.

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Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
June 16, 2021

Great class :) No exams, only 10 hw which is assigned every week. The TAs were very helpful in explaining the concepts and giving hints. The professor is very understanding of the current situation we're all in and still be able to teach us some cool concepts.

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Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A+
March 29, 2021

One of the nicest and most understanding professors at UCLA. We had 10 Homework assignments and each was worth roughly 10% of our final grade. You weren't allowed to work with anyone else on these but these homework assignments were very fair and doable as long as you paid attention and went to discussion sections.

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COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: NR
March 25, 2021

Professor Abari does not have a mean bone in his body. He is so extremely kind and knowledgeable on the topics. The class has somewhat of a higher than average learning curve, but once you got it, it was fairly straightforward and logical.

I think Professor Abari did too good of a job, though. I think everyone did well so I'm expecting some sort of grade deflation unfortunately. We will see (I really hope not).

Overall, if you have the opportunity to take any class with professor Abari, take it. He is excited about the topics, and that kind of energy translates into the students as well. I only wish I could've taken the course in person.

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3 0 Please log in to provide feedback.
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
March 26, 2021

Professor Abari is forever GOATED for this class. I never thought I'd enjoy designing gate diagrams or calculating minterms as much as I did. (I do not enjoy hardware one bit)

The lectures were super engaging and the professor made sure that each student understood every detail of each topic. Professor Abari also showed us interesting videos on the research being conducted in the computer hardware world and truly loved the material.

The weekly assignments were sometimes time-consuming but extremely fair. If you paid attention in class and attended discussions, you would have no problem in understanding and attempting the questions. The class having no midterms or finals helped remove a lot of stress during the quarter.

My TA was Sicheng Jia who conducted clear and interesting discussion sections with super helpful and fun examples.

Helpful?

1 0 Please log in to provide feedback.
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A+
March 21, 2021

Prof. Abari is a great professor who really knows his stuff. Very knowledgeable and teaches in a straightforward manner. His grading scale was way different than I was used to: ten homework assignments each worth about 10%, one assignment a week. Though some of these were tough, going to discussions made them a lot easier as you could ask as many questions as you needed, or work through very similar examples. Overall, I highly recommend Prof. Abari, just an overall good experience in this class.

Helpful?

2 1 Please log in to provide feedback.
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: NR
Feb. 19, 2021

Teacher is very clear, nice, and fun, and approachable. He explains things very clearly and is willing to reexplain concepts you don't understand. He shows cool research videos as a break during class too.

Class is fairly easy, in my online quarter we had 9 homeworks and that was the entire grade.
Just spend some time doing them and it should be no problem.

Material coverage was good, but perhaps we learned less than we would with a more rigorous EE professor.

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2 1 Please log in to provide feedback.
Verified Reviewer This user is a verified UCLA student/alum.
Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: B+
March 18, 2022

Professor Abari was an incredibly kind and genuine professor with a contagious smile and mood. He is always ready to explain something a different way for students who don't understand a concept initially. Additionally, my TA Sicheng Jia was also very helpful with his slides and availability for assistance. As others have mentioned, only 1 homework assignment a week with no exams. During lecture breaks, we watched applications of the concepts we learned in class, showing off some cool devices.

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0 0 Please log in to provide feedback.
Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: A+
Jan. 5, 2022

Professor Abari was one of the nicest teachers I've had in my life. He was always very upbeat and enjoyable to listen to, and as a bonus, told a lot of funny jokes. During breaks in the lectures, he would show us various videos of research applications in the field of CS, many of which were very interesting and somewhat related to the class topics. The class material was pretty interesting, it definitely builds upon itself which was kinda cool to see how by the end we were designing and analyzing entire systems, when in the beginning we were learning simple gates. I would highly recommend taking this class with Abari if at all possible. My TA was Sicheng Jia, who was also an incredible teacher. His section essentially went through all of the information needed to complete the homework. The grading scheme was just 10 HWs, each of which were roughly 10% of your grade. Not very hard, but I definitely learned a lot and had a very good time.

Helpful?

0 0 Please log in to provide feedback.
Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: A
Dec. 29, 2021

Abari is a great professor. He is very caring about his students. He clarifies and breaks things down so they are easy to understand. The homework composed the whole grade and was very closely tied to lecture. Some of the homework assignments were a little long, but it was manageable and significantly less than other classes in this field.

The discussions were 2 hours long, which I felt was unnecessary. They could have been half the time. I had dozed off a few more times than I would like to admit during the discussion. Still, they had helped with the homework. I have heard that this class can be much more stressful with other professors (especially if you take ECE M16), so I am counting my blessings.

I highly recommend taking this class with this professor.

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Quarter: Fall 2021
Grade: A+
Dec. 17, 2021

Abari is was such a great professor!!! His lectures were very simple and straight to the point while still being engaging (ofc I did listen in 2x speed, though). My favorite part of every class was when he would share youtube videos of research projects; they were always so interesting and motivating. The homework was not too long and very doable. I would recommend looking at discussion slides every week because usually they go over a little thing he didn't say in class that is applicable for the homework. With that said, I didn't find discussion super necessary.

Helpful?

0 0 Please log in to provide feedback.
COVID-19 This review was submitted during the COVID-19 pandemic. Your experience may vary.
Quarter: Winter 2021
Grade: A
June 16, 2021

Great class :) No exams, only 10 hw which is assigned every week. The TAs were very helpful in explaining the concepts and giving hints. The professor is very understanding of the current situation we're all in and still be able to teach us some cool concepts.

Helpful?

0 0 Please log in to provide feedback.
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4.8
Overall Rating
Based on 16 Users
Easiness 4.1 / 5 How easy the class is, 1 being extremely difficult and 5 being easy peasy.
Clarity 4.8 / 5 How clear the class is, 1 being extremely unclear and 5 being very clear.
Workload 3.8 / 5 How much workload the class is, 1 being extremely heavy and 5 being extremely light.
Helpfulness 4.9 / 5 How helpful the class is, 1 being not helpful at all and 5 being extremely helpful.

TOP TAGS

  • Uses Slides
    (6)
  • Engaging Lectures
    (6)
  • Appropriately Priced Materials
    (4)
  • Often Funny
    (5)
  • Would Take Again
    (5)
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