-thick accent hard to understand, disabled so lectures from home but you have to go to lecture hall and he lectures on zoom. no camera
-lectures aren't mandatory, but there are pop quizzes in lecture so basically have to go
-discussions not mandatory
-homework not mandatory, but quizzes consist of a problem from homework
-overall don't recommend

Prof. Potkonjak is the most disorganized, unintelligible, and careless professor I've had at UCLA. I haven't had a professor care so little about teaching since middle school. The lectures were twice a week and were Zoom broadcasted into the lecture hall, so that meant it was online, right? No, you had to come in and wait for class to start to see if there was a pop quiz or not. What was the material of the pop quiz? It was a direct copy of one of the homework questions, sick right? Easy grades? No! This was basically just a dumb way to do homework. Homework was not graded, so you just studied the questions, then came in and did one of them for the 10% it made up of the grade. Lectures were unintelligible and covered material so not related to anything on the quizzes or midterm or final. The only saving grace was the discussion section, which, if you missed, basically amounted to you not being able to complete anything or understand anything. TA office hours were on average 20 students, cause everyone came to those instead of lecture eventually.

Incredibly hard course but the Taste carried! The professor was very difficult to follow which made Office Hours key.

This class was a whirlwind for many of us, and not just because of the material! Miodrag is pretty infamous now at this point for how he constructs his classes (and his behavior around/towards students), but my experience seems to not have been much different than the people who took it before me. I even took a condensed version of this class at community college and I still was blown away by this class sometimes.

Just some pointers if you have to have to take this class with him:
- The class is online except for midterms and the final, which you will take in person
- The TAs and online resources are pretty much your only saving grace, as he stumbles (ridiculously slowly) over the material presented in the class, and gets angry when students cannot answer questions pertaining to electronics (that he did not cover thus far)
- One time, he insulted (who I thought to be) the smartest student in the class because they couldn't create the state diagram in the 5 seconds he allotted them.
- Just look at NESO Academy (on YouTube)'s digital electronics playlist, and you will get the gist of the material covered
- His homework is highly conceptual at times, and don't expect to see the really nasty problems on the exam

My TA (shoutout Mark, wherever you are), had zero experience with this topic, yet taught himself enough in a short enough time to convey these topics to us and was a really gracious grader. I swear I only passed the final because Mark gave high scores to those who demonstrated a full understanding, even if they couldn't get the perfect answer.

And how could you get the perfect answer?? Miodrag and the TAs collaborate to determine the content on the midterms and the final, but Miodrag felt that M1 and M2 were too easy, so he deliberately made some of the final exam impossible (without telling the TAs). The final was so bad that students were audibly expressing their frustration with him AS HE CHANGED THE QUESTIONS LIVE ON ZOOM.

Absolute dumpster fire of a class' presentation. I would avoid him at all costs but if you can't, try to be ahead of the content by a week and read/watch as much supplementary content as can, as well as collaborate with other students to study together.