Took this course in the summer. Checks attendance every now and then (~10% of grade)Hard material but his lectures were fun to attend for me, as long as you learned the concepts it was fine. HW does require coding knowledge, he doesn't teach you to code but is helpful in OH. 2 exams that were ~4-5 questions with T/F and curved a lot at the end.
Not a good teacher. Not a good teacher. He rewrite the note on board and there is no practice for the exams.
Awful lecturer. Goes way too fast and writes formula after formula, without providing intuition or a big picture. Helpful in office hours at least. Provides study guides for midterm and final, which are very helpful and yielded a high average.
His homework for 104A was challenging, but not impossible. Attendance isn't *really* mandatory but he randomly checks every few weeks. His lectures are clear for the most part, and he's pretty funny. The tests, however... dude gave us a T/F midterm AND final. They weren't very easy questions either .. top 10 anime betrayals smh.
Nice guy with "lightheartedly cruel" lecture humor. Regurgitates the lecture notes which i'm pretty sure all the 104 profs use. Hw was hard but worth doing and understanding. Tests were T/F style--(W)TF, indeed. I don't think anyone expected him to double down on it for the final, but we should have known better. He may or may not pull this again..
Hides behind a veneer of humor. Going to office hours is more painful than the dentist unless you enjoy being made feel like you're incompetent. Will assume that you understand the wall of complex summations he writes in lecture without clarification and answers questions superficially. 0/10 do not recommend
Possibly the best math prof I've had at UCSB, he's able to communicate complicated material in a way that makes sense, homework assignments are challenging but helpful, and you get to learn how to use matlab in the process. grading is fair, prof is very available through OH
This is the worst 104A professor. Take it with anybody else.
Ceniceros lectures at the speed of light. He writes things down extremely fast and has explained it all before I can even look up from writing. It was hard to try to get all the notes down, which was a shame because I would miss his explanations. He gives practice problems for the exams... do every single problem; they'll be on the exam.
Funny, nice guy, he lectures really quick but he explains the material well.
simply the best. funny as hell and excellent at explaining things; his boadwork is great! Very approachable and he is hot too!
Boring!!!!! and he had the nerve to question why i didnt come to class. midterms is like the practice. he goes through material too fast and he doesnt care if you know how to program or not.
WOW, WHAT AN AMAZING TEACHER. GOT AN A+ and I slept through class & barely did any homework. VERY CLEAR AND CONCISE GUY. HOT TOO! IMHO
He's not bad at all. Despite the homework being easy it is all totally busy work though. This class takes time to understand everything fully so you can't try to do everything at the last minute.
Two weeks into the class and I have to give him an F--. He is completely unclear, and the book is awful to boot. He teaches math as if it's voodoo.
tests are pretty fair. really good teacher, but not that helpful in office hours. homeworks are hard and are graded unfairly but if you can do them you are set for the tests.
Very good.
Lectures could be explained better but as a STEM student I was able to figure it out with not too much trouble. I had an unconvential experience with this course and Professor Ceniceros was flexible with me in accomodating after having to take a leave of absence with the university.
I took Calc AB in high school, and understood the topics. The first half of the course was review, but I got confused even on topics I already knew because he skips steps. He obviously understands the material, but doesn't seem to understand that students may not. The first two midterms were much simpler in comparison to the final.
Honestly for calculus, I would recommend taking him. His midterms and finals are very simple integrals that you can solve. The final was a bit hard but does curve up the class which helps a lot. His lectures were sometimes confusing but honestly he is a very good professor. Just study hard and go to CLAS or your TA if you need help. His OH help too
bad lecturer. a little bit of a language barrier as well. tries to be funny and draw really good graphs but it just wastes class time. not many resources to help you learn aside from a confusing textbook. he isn't rude or anything just a mid prof.
Class average on the final was a 50 something and was worth 40% of our grade. Terrible lecturer and the midterms were misleadingly easy compared to the evil evil final.
Ceniceros was a great teacher. Clearly very knowledgeable about the material. Lectures moved a bit quickly but it was never unmanageable. Midterms and final had simple questions and the class never got too challenging overall.
Professor Ceniceros is a fun and smart guy but can't teach. His lectures are fast and he rarely takes questions. I learned about half of the material of my own. The easy midterms and mildly difficult final make getting an A in his class not that hard.
