He is easily the worst math professor I have ever had at this university. He is a god awful lecturer with handwriting to match. He literally just flings concepts that are either completely useless and ends up getting lost in thought or stuff that is super simple. Honestly, the second part would not be bad if his midterms weren't made to be only doable by the entire Wolfram Alpha's server farm. I did everything in my power to get a good grade in this class and I know for a fact that I did. I attended every lecture, did every single homework problem, including the extra practice problems, did every single practice midterm and anything else he gave us. Still could not do well on both the midterms for the life of me. His midterm averages also indicate just as much considering that they were in the low 50's for both. I even heard students crying during the first midterm because it was so brutal. The final, despite being online, open book, and given 24 hours to do it, was the hardest most awful midterm I have ever taken. I worked for 18 hours and still could not finish the final and ended up having to bs some questions because of the sheer amount of nonsense gibberish he put on it. I am by no means just some random stupid kid. Until this professor I thought that as long as you put work into the class you will do fine regardless of the professor. I have never gotten below an A in a class either but somehow this man absolutely changed my mind. I am going to HUNT for good professors from now on out because of how he ruined my god damn mental health.

His lectures were never clear, and I relied on my TA, textbook, and online resources to study the material. Taking a course with him is a waste of your money and time. His homework is never covered in class, and you have to learn the material on your own.

In general, James Cameron is a catastrophe of the math department. He should be fired immediately. I am not sure why the department does not ban him from teaching any course at all and just deduct his salary that should be paid for teaching instead.

Well, kids, if you need to take Math 61, and this is your only option for a professor for that quarter, change majors. I don't think I have ever gone from being very interested in a subject to hating it in a fifty minute period, but the first midterm in Winter 2020 did that for me. Thinking that, despite my newfound hatred, I could rebound and find a new interest in the subject again by slaying the second midterm, I attempted to do so, only to find my hopes and dreams crushed once again by the weight of an even harder second midterm. Now, it was too late to drop the class, so I knew that my only salvation was the final. Frankly, if it had not been for COVID-19, I think I would have landed a C or a C- in this class, but since we were allotted 24 hours to finish the final, and given open-book privileges, I was able to scrape by with a B- instead. Don't think that wasn't without incredible anxiety and stress, however. I worked on that final for a little over 18 hours, and his words were something along the lines of "...this test was still created to be completed in the standard 3 hour period, but you will be given 24..." Let me put it this way; If I had walked into the lecture hall to do the final and I had sat down, only to open it and see that monstrosity, I would have done one of two things: A. leave the lecture hall and move to another country, or B. screamed at the top of my lungs that this professor is batshit for thinking that his students were capable of completing such an asinine test in such a short time. The thing is, Cameron seems personable and approachable, but I can't possibly allow that to come through in this review, because future students might sue my for fraud.

Avoid at all costs. And if you don't, pray he has read this review, as well as the undoubtedly innumerable awful student surveys he received, and changed his mind about how to administer tests.

I actually am taking Math 32B in the spring of 2020, but it was not an option.

Cameron is a really nice guy with a decent sense of humor.

However, he basically uptalks the entire lecture, just repeats out loud what hes writing down instead of explaining it, and talks about his fucking sourdough bread farm. DO NOT TAKE HIM IF YOU CAN.

Only 4 weeks of the quarter we have assigned homework, so 4 homework assignments, but the stuff does NOT relate to the class at all. He tries to incorporate material from 33A, and random shit like "holomorphic" equations that dont even pertain to the class material. I'm not a math major and I dont care about all this random stuff... just teach me the material...

Professor Cameron is a really nice guy, and a pretty good instructor overall.

I took him in his first quarter as an instructor at UCLA.
While his lectures were a little confusing in the beginning (especially when he went over functions), he definitely got better over the quarter as the material became more dense. He is a decent lecturer, though he pretty much follows the textbook. Homework is weekly, and although he assigns a lot of problems, you only have to submit around 4 of them to be graded, so the workload of the class isn't too bad. Additionally, there are lots of online resources that explain the material quite well, so you don't really need to go to lecture.

His tests were not too difficult, though they were a little more proof based than the homework, so you may want to brush up on your proof skills. Also, the class isn't curved, so the exams are pretty important.

Overall, this class is pretty chill as long as you don't procrastinate too much. Professor Cameron is really helpful and nice in office hours. Also, Van Latimer is a great TA.

As a side note, the textbook isn't the best. It explains algorithms using pseudocode, which is pretty stupid. There are plenty of online resources that explain the algorithms much better, particularly if you have not coded/ taken CS before.

Even though I did well in this class, the amount of work it required was astronomical. Though Professor Cameron tried to be as accommodating as possible due to COVID and BLM, his lectures were pretty hard to follow at times, we weren't given enough time for the quizzes on many occasions, and the class began to deviate into complex analysis topics (which, given the fact that we are all first or second year undergraduates, was beyond the scope of this class). The class breakdown for virtual classes was as follows:
1) Participation: 5%
2) Homework: 20%
3) Quizzes: 30%
4) Midterm 1: 12.5%
5) Midterm 2: 12.5%
6) Final: 20%