Rate my professor sucks, she truly hates ucla students
Professor Ghaforyfard tried her best to explain the content of the class; however, it can be a bit rushed and unorganized. If you are in another time zone, reconsider your choice of taking this class as she will suddenly cancel your exam accommodation and reply " this is going to be the end of this discussion" if you ask more questions for clarification (Piazza, 2020 Summer).
For more information, search Ouch that hurts r/ucla

More updates, this class is down curved during a pandemic, and she blatantly ignored a student's question by shutting down the piazza when a student raised questions about the grading scheme. For more information, check Illogical Design of Ethical Systems 2: Electric Boogaloo r/ucla

Will not recommend any students who want to take it unless you absolutely need it (Easy A, but sacrificing your sanity).
THIS IS ONE OF THE WORST CLASS I'VE EVER HAD IN UCLA. AVOID AT ALL COST.

Lecture: Lectures were often hard to follow. Explanations of topics were not always clear, and I found myself watching certain lectures over and over to understand the material. For some topics she jumps into them quite quickly, making it hard to pick up.

Projects: The projects themselves were reasonable once you understand how to do them, but it was hard to get to that point of understanding through the lectures. There are online resources that help with the material needed for the projects.

Exams: I found the exams to be exceptionally difficult. The time restraint of three hours was not enough, and the exam material was consistently hard. Some problems were worth large chunks of the test and focused on a specific topic, so if you did not understand that topic, your grade was sure to be low.

Tips: Her CS33 curriculum follows CMU's 15-213 curriculum, so if you find her lectures difficult to follow you can watch CMU's public lectures for their respective class. For the exams make sure to fully understand each project.

This has got to be the worst experience I've had in a class ever. I took this course online due to COVID-19 and the professor did not adapt well to the online format at all. There were constant logistical issues with the lectures-even like 7 weeks into the class. She would keep pointing to things with her mouse but nobody could see her mouse. She once set a meeting password without telling anyone what it was, and when the TA's finally gave it to us and we showed up 9 minutes in, she said she was just going to continue lecturing. The lectures are incredibly boring and hard to follow (It's hard to even stay awake while watching them). Her explanations were terrible. That's not all her fault, the material is pretty boring too, but she made it so much more complicated than it had to be. The labs were pretty okay to do as long as you read the textbook well and go to discussion. The midterms and final were pretty hard to even complete. Oh and we had a 3 hour midterm. For context, I did pretty well in and enjoyed CS 32, but this class was not it. It legit made me cry through every one of the 9 weeks. Avoid taking it with her at all costs if possible. If not, make sure you read the textbook really well, attend discussion with a good TA, and try to get near perfect scores on the labs because the exams are TOUGH.

This class was roasted as "Illogical Design of Ethical Systems." I bet you can't find a better name than this gem.
The class was easy, but I hated it. I'll rather do 10 CS32 project 3s than to retake this class.
For more roasts, check here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ucla/comments/hzfn83/ouch_that_hurts/fzikubt/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/ucla/comments/igp21l/illogical_design_of_ethical_systems_2_electric/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

I think the professor has good intentions—she responds to emails pretty quickly and will try to answer your questions. Sometimes she doesn't do so super well, but she tries. Not a horrible lecturer. I didn't find the class material super difficult, so maybe my opinion is skewed. There is censorship going on, as she doesn't answer logistic questions (she didn't answer any of the questions regarding getting a grade estimation before the P/NP deadline), can be a little passive aggressive (ex. regarding the midterm issue that I'm sure is mentioned in other reviews), and didn't allow us to form a groupme or anything like that. This can be super stressful because we didn't know about the extremely unaccommodating midterm logistics until like less than a week before it. She also has a whack grading scheme where only above 94 is an A, so be careful. However, I've found that contacting the TAs can help with any grading issues that might arise, which helps a lot (probably wouldn't have gotten an A without them). Overall, not horrible, but probably choose somebody else if you want a professor that'll accommodate your needs.

Professor Ghaforyfard is extremely patient and helpful both in lecture and office hour. She cares about the student and always keep the class active. I am so glad that I took the summer course with her.
Her lecture style:
Unlike other professors who only explained the concept of the topic, Professor Ghaforyfard explained the concept and linked it with several extremely helpful examples (problems) to make the students understand deeper about the topic. She also taught us about how to approach the problems and several shortcuts for solving the problem, and it makes life a lot easier.

4 LABs- DATA Lab (easy)
Bomb Lab (Medium and interesting)
Attack Lab ( Not So hard)
Malloc Lab ( SUPER HARD, Un-doable (for me) )

HW are from the textbook.

Attendance: Do not skip lectures! She sometimes makes students sign in.

Grading: Project 45% , HW 5%, MT 20%, Final 30%

Overall, Highly recommended definitely would take it again,

Personally I do not understand where did those complaints come from. Professor Ghaforyfard said on one of her first lectures that "it's unlikely to have another time slot/version for exams; but she would be willing to gave 1-to-1 oral exams instead for those who could not make to the tests", which she is actually doing for summer 2020. Moreover, for all quizzes, students are given 12-hr time window to finish in order to accommodate students from different time zones. I think the professor has done a lot to accommodate everyone and prevent possible unfairness.

Overall not the best experience I’ve had.

She forced international students to take the midterm at midnight and was pretty rude when being asked to reconsider her decision.

Also be warned that she DOWN curved people, something she never mentioned any time throughout the quarter. Honestly speaking, I’ve never seen any instructor doing things like this, especially during the difficult times.

I don’t even want to comment on her class contents... Things are pretty superficial, and though obviously she tried her best, she was unable to explain the concepts or answer our questions very well.

Took this class in the Summer of 2020, thinking since it was offered online I could take advantage of my Summer. Big mistake. Professor Ghaforyfard assigns weekly readings of the extremely dense textbook, which most people would think to just be supplemental, but no: if you don't do the readings, you will be instantly lost in what is going on. Also, due to her Electrical Engineering background, she will go on extremely long tangents about things that don't help at all, and if anything just further confuse you. Classes were very boring. As far as the labs go, the bomb lab is the most time-consuming but atleast you may actually learn how to do that one from class. The attack and malloc labs, on the other hand, were near impossible with the lackluster lectures (especially the malloc lab). Oh and the tests are anything but easy. Seriously just take this class with another professor.

Professor Ghaforyfard tries hard in her lectures, but she is not too good at explaining concepts. During summer, we didn't cover anything about floating points because she just didn't have enough time. The projects are standard CS33 projects and the slides are the standard CS33 slides. Our final was ridiculously hard, she tested a bunch of 32-bit questions when our class was mainly focused on 64-bit the whole quarter. In the end, I feel like everyone did pretty badly, so she curved the whole class and almost everyone I knew got an A or A+.
Overall, she is not very good at explaining, but she was pretty easy of a grader, so I still think you can take her, but just a lot of self studying required.