Michael Langer - McGill University, Montreal, QC

Professor: Michael Langer

Department: Computer Science

College: McGill University, Montreal, QC

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: COMP250
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Langer is a solid Prof. Provides decent slides and the workload is not too overwhelming. The final exam was challenging but fair.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: COMP250
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Best professor that I've ever met at McGill. Fantastics lecture slides and interesting lectures. He could even made the assignments fun to us. He is very generous on curving, although this course is an easy A for me.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: COMP250
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

His lecture notes are very insightful and well structured

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: COMP250
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Michael Langer is by far the best prof I have ever had in McGill. He really cares his students and would do everything to make his course fair for all. He is a good lecturer and explains things very clear. He is also very approachable outside of class. He has his own course webpage that has detailed for every single lecture. He is the man.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: COMP250
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Really incredible Prof, Langer really cares for his students and it shows in the amount of effort he puts in to his slides/notes and exercises. He wants people to learn the material and is pretty funny. Really fair assignments, really fair quizzes. Overall recommend.

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: COMP250
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

A lecturer curves down the final. Don't need more words.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: COMP250
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

This year had about 600 students enrolled in Comp 250 which is much more than usual. It would take ages for the TA's to grade all the work manually and the multiple choice exam is mathematically fair when you consider probability of picking right answer by luck. Langer's and his TA's are overwhelmed by the huge quantity of students.

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: COMP250
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

He doesn't know how to plan out the course properly and manage his TAs. But, his lecture notes and slides are amazing. I would recommend taking this class, but not for credit as you might end up with a very bad grade because of his negative curving.

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: COMP250
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Good lecturer, but overall a very bad professor

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: COMP250
• Grade Received: Not sure yet
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Prof Langer is amazing! The lectures are very organized and easy to follow. He keeps incredibly detailed lecture notes and presentations on his website and his assignments are very fair as long as you follow the instructions carefully. He will even sometimes let you to resubmit assignments for a higher grade if you messed up the first time.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: COMP250
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Absolutely love this class. I went to every lecture and this is what got me my good grade. Very clear presentations and explanations. Gives extra exercises to practice outside of class.

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: COMP250
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Langer is an amazing prof and genuily cares for his students. He posts incredibly detailed lecture notes and slides and presents the material in a really approachable way. Lots of the bad grades people recieved here were from ignoring key instuctions on the assignments. If you follow the instructions clearly you will do well!

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: COMP250
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

The grading in this course is ridiculous. - The quiz grades had to be revised due to ambiguous questions - On the exam, you are penalized for "guessing". Meaning that if you answer 2/10 questions incorrectly your final grade will be less than 8/10 - The assignment grades had to be revised 3/4 times due to faulty automatic graders.

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: COMP250
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

The assignments are never graded the way it needs to be. They make you get a very low grade at first and then end up changing it. The feedback given for the assignments are very vague; won't help. It takes unreasonably long to do the assignments only to know that you failed in them. I am paranoid to take another comp class because of this class.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: COMP250
• Grade Received: INC
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 5.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: No
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Prof Langer is an amazing teacher dont get me wrong, but along with his research and all he is not giving the time he should to a course like COMP 250. this semester the grading scheme was beyond ridiculous for his course. Automated graders with built in problems, the blame is put on the students and students have to suffer. Final exam grading

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: COMP250
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Crystal clear teaching and occasionally good sense of humor

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: COMP250
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Very organized and clear teaching style. Relevant excercises are posted. Occasionally professor Langer wil do something funny which is great. He promotes students to ask questions to clarify concepts and is also helpful at office hours.

Rating # 18

Overview:

• Course: COMP250
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Lectures and notes are organized. It is evident that Professor Langer puts effort into teaching, helping students, and answer questions. His teaching is crystal clear which is great. Quizzes and assignments are fair and there are even office hours dedicated for assignments. Sometimes he also shows humor which is cool.

Rating # 19

Overview:

• Course: COMP250
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Very organized, accessible and caring. Clear expectations, optimal challenges, timely and informative feedback.

Rating # 20

Overview:

• Course: COMP273
• Grade Received: B+
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: Yes
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: Yes
• Attendance: Not Mandatory

Comment:

Two years later still one of the best profs in computer science I've ever had. If you have the chance to take his class, do it!