Very difficult to follow along during lectures, makes small mistakes sometimes. Grading is tough, half of your grade stems from the obscenely difficult 60+ problem homework assigned per week and the other half from tests. Midterm was easy, yet to take the final. AVOID this professor unless you want to spend +20 hours devoted to this class only.

Do not take this prof if you can avoid it. Crazy amount of homework that even the TAs said was way too much. Many problems that even the grad students struggled with and often if I went to CLAS they did not know how to do it either. Professor expects you to spend 15-25 hours per week on homework and it is ridiculous that this class is not 5 units.

His lectures are somewhat helpful but you're going to have to do a lot more self-studying to fully grasp the concepts. There is also an insane amount of homework (like 60+ hard problems a week). The midterm, final, and homework are the only things that makeup the grade so you really have to stay on top of the workload.

lectures were clear and made sense but he gives a ridiculous amount of homework that is extremely hard. midterm was easy but haven't taken final yet. homework is 50% of your grade but he gives ~60-70 problems a week. CLAS drop ins are very helpful for some of the really hard homework problems. prof agboola is really funny though.

Assigns too much unrelated homework (expects you to spend 15-20 hours outside of class on this class).

Homework and tests are the only things that count towards a grade in this class. THe homework is much tougher than the actual tests given but it dies count towards half the overall grade. Average lectures and sometimes helpful. Will have to rely mostly on self-studying and outside resources.

I stopped going to lecture pretty soon into the class. This class is mainly just doing a lot of homework so be aware. The good thing is it’s 50% of your grade, so if you do it all then you’re good but there are pretty tough problems. Class just wasn’t very useful. Midterm was easy, final was hard.

Prof boola is the goat and anyone who says his class is too hard is probably an econ major lmao

Agboola is an awful teacher. He is unexplainably rude and disrespectful. He is impossible to reach and talk to. He has no respect for students are anyone for that matter. A tech person came to class to fix the computer and Agboola simply was unbearably rude. The best thing that could happen is this teacher being removed form the university.

If he graded his own lectures like he did his exam questions: all or nothing, then the many mistakes he made, would make him a D or F prof. Assigned INSANE amounts of homework each week. 1 midterm, full lecture load, and 19 multipart/long HW problems all due in two weeks in the middle. Also insanely rude and condescending. Wouldn't recommend.

Don't take 122 with him this will ruin your GPA. His midterm grading does not give any partial credit if you get the result wrong and he gives a B- for 88.9% overall score which is ridiculous. Very unhelpful office hour and do not care about students.

DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR. He doesn't care about his students. Gives homework problems that are way too hard compared to the problems he discusses in lecture. VERY unorganized.

When asked what the format for the midterm was, he said I dont know thats a concept in the mind of god right now Class based 100% on 2 exams, pretty fair if you can teach yourself the material. Ask him how do you know and he answers you just do

Made the class 40% midterm and 60% final. The grading was harsh: he does not grade it himself, but he refuses to meet you in order to argue any points. Additionally, he is not in his office hours half the time, and he sarcastically answers your questions. No clarifications on his explanations, and lectures are very confusing, he only writes what he

Initially his lectures were hard to understand as he really tries to teach conceptually rather than practically, however in the long run it really does help to understand it on the deeper level. The homework was online and occationally ridiculously long, but still doable. His sense of humor absolutely cracked me up but not everyone feels that.

Lectures are only useful if you want to know what's going on in the class. (But even then you can probably ask a friend who's also taking the class or just go to CLAS). I had taken Calc before, so I didn't feel like I was learning anything - it was mostly review. CLAS was incredibly useful for practice. VERY SARCASTIC HUMOR.

I went to most lectures, but learned more from 10 minute YouTube videos than his hour or so long lectures. Midterm and final were nothing like his lectures and the harder parts of the tons of homework he assigns. The class is very much do-able, but if you really want to learn in lecture, he isn't really the go to professor.

Agboola is a cool dude (or not; his most redeeming quality is his bucket hat), but not a great lecturer. Don't waste your time going to lectures, just work on the 60 buggy webworks problems he puts out. I never went to section, but CLAS can teach you everything you need to know. The midterm and final were easy compared to the homework.

The only things i remember from his lectures are partial fraction decomposition and arc length, the rest my TA taught me and khan academy, his lectures are confusing and he repeats examples of riemann sums like no other. His hw takes an insane amount of time and effort where the midterm was a joke compared to the hw. Try to get a different prof.

No one attends his lectures because they are terrible so he assigns a fk ton of homework

As others have said, midterm and final extremely easy compared to the difficult homework. Lectures were confusing, and I think I would've done the same without going. Going to section helped a bit on the homework. A little challenging if you are someone like me who hates math.

Tests were far less scary than the homework, but lectures were a joke. Don't expect to learn much. CLAS is mandatory.

A lot of homework, which can be very difficult. The midterm and final are very easy by comparison, though.

If you haven't taken calculus before, then this subject is pretty tough. I wouldn't say he is the best professor in the world, but in terms of the math department at UCSB, he's alright. His HW is HARD, but his tests are a piece of cake. Go to CLAS, do your HW, and you can do well in his class.