Great prof, hope I have the chance to get him again

Gary RULES! Greatest instructor in the world!

Great Prof.

great prof.

Great professor. You need to keep up with the workload, and study if you want to get a good grade.

Incredibly knowledgeable prof, classes are so full of info that you can't afford to miss a class. Assignments are fairly easy, but you will not win a fight of marks with him. He really up-ed the course at the end, beware of sudden jump of knowledge. A great prof in the end, but should consider slowing down course work at the end near the exams.

Very knowledgeable about the subject. Engaging with the class. Will help you figure out answers to your questions without directly telling you the answer. Honestly the class isn't hard if you read the book, do the labs before the labs and don't do things last minute. He is a great prof! And will help you when you need help.

Dr. Grewal clearly cares about his students, and provides many resources and opportunities to help students learn the topics. His evaluations require you to know your stuff, and generously rewards you when you do. Lecture attendance is crucial; if you attend and are following what he's teaching, you can expect to do well.

Gary is easily one of the best lecturers at Guelph, particularly for a dry subject like microcomputing. He prints everything and makes materials very accessible. He wants his students to succeed. He's been teaching 2030 forever and the course is streamlined. Go to class and you'll do fine.

Lots, lots, lots of handouts. LOTS. If you show up to class you won't pass, answers to questions on assignments and exams are occasionally mentioned verbally in class. He doesn't put lecture slides or labs on courselink so you need to go to class to get your notes otherwise you're not going to do well in the class. A very knowledgeable prof.

Gary Grewal is one of the nicest professors I have had during my time at the University of Guelph. He does make you work for the labs and assignments but he does it because he cares about his students. I found out he is retiring this year and I am so devasted because he made my semester worthwhile.

He removed the Respondus Lockdown Browser from the final exam and dropped the Pass/Fail requirement when requested

I really liked him as a prof

Really amazing prof. Would take again.

This is not an easy course, but Gary is the person I'd want teaching it. He is very knowledgeable and explains concepts in a way that is easy to understand. I have not done the final at the time of writing this, but the midterm was very fair. Gary is the kind of prof I'm paying all this money to learn from, I actually learn from each lecture.

Gary has been my favourite professor in University by far. His labs are long but extremely helpful. If you do them you will have ample resources to study for the exams. I find that his lectures are so easy to follow along with and it's very obvious how passionate he is about the subject he teaches. If you aren't lazy you will do well.

Gary is a really good lecturer. He is great at explaining the concepts of this course and is good at conveying lots of information to you efficiently. Definitely recommend the lectures to be successful. But he is unforgiving when it comes to skipping labs and his labs are extremely demanding. Still the midterm was okay and he gives you practice too

terrible course but gary is chill

Great professor. He expects a lot from his students. Attend all lectures, labs, practice sessions and do all practice problems.

Really passionate about what he teaches and has pretty informative lectures so make sure you attend. if you dont keep up with this course from the very beginning it will bite you back since the material builds on top of each other. Weekly labs are draining and long but prepar you well for the midterm and final.

he teaches well, slides and lectures are clear. A lot of contents to learn every week, while having to deal with the labs. Labs are stressful with time limitations. Overall, if you go through the contents again, and do the practice questions (and maybe office hours too), you'll do just fine.

Tough professor but teaches really well and is very knowledgeable. Labs are tough unless you fully understand the content and his exams are fair. This course requires a lot of memorization and his practice problems and quizzes are tough but great for review similar to Pascals.

This was an incredibly difficult course and the labs were demanding. However Gary and the TAS are chill and provide you with all the adequate resources to succeed so if you keep doing all the practice problems and attend all your labs, you will be good for the midterm and the final exam.

No better professor to teach CIS 2030, never miss a lecture and plan the labs ahead of time and you are guaranteed to get a 90+, cant stress enough how important it is to attend each and every lecture.

Humble, well-versed, and hard-working professor. Intense but rewarding course.

Content was difficult and labs were hard if you didn't do them ahead of time but if you attend lecture and ask questions Gary is very helpful but you have to advocate for yourself. He offered "optional" lectures towards the end of semester where he answered content questions, these honestly saved my grade and made sure I passed the exam.

Hard content but he is super passionate about it. The only reason I stayed awake in class is because of how interesting he made it sound.

CIS2030 is done in a way where labs are worth much more than anything else, and succeeding in Gary's class requires active attention and dedication to the course. It's important to attend his lectures as he goes much more in-depth about concepts. Textbook purchase isn't required to do well in the course however highly recommended.

Gary Grewal is a great professor, the course is just a hard course which gives him a bad rep. He does a great job at teaching the material and the lectures truly help a lot - though a bit fast paced. I recommend getting the textbook for extra learning material if you're struggling, but this course is not as scary as everyone makes it out to be.

Gray, is a passionate teacher who genuinely wants his students to fully understand the course material. However, he is not very accommodating. To succeed in his class, you need to be prepared to study consistently for weekly labs and attend lectures regularly—otherwise, passing might be a challenge.

Gary can be tough, but is very fair. Unfortunately asks us to do the normal things we should be doing, like studying and preparing well for labs, which turns people off this course. It is tough but incredibly fair. Clear outlines and instructions in labs, assignments. If you went to the review sessions, they were a great representation of the exams

Great lecturer unlike Andrew Hamilton Wright for OS. I learned a lot with gary. Sure it was a lot of work and stressful for the exams, but he is an amazing professor. The course is also organized (again unlike OS). I actually took away information from 2030 and thank Gary. It was tough but I learned! For this course he is the man to teach it.

Gary is a good prof and a decent lecturer, but the course itself is quite difficult. The midterm and exam were fairly difficult which makes sense as 2030's content is inherently pretty rigorous, but they were not unfair. Pay lots of attention in lecture, ask questions in the labs, and you will pass with at least a decent grade.

I took Microcomputers with Gary F24 and previously have never done anything related to Assembly. He is a very good lecturer, and seriously knows what he's talking about. He explains and often writes on the board of some process. Weekly quizzes and labs were brutal, but in hindsight, they were extremely useful for preparing us for midterm & final.

Gary should be teaching Operating Systems. NOT Andrew Hamilton Wright. Atleast Gary's class was structured and not disorganized. Gary didnt have mistakes on his assignments, exercises, exams. His course is hard but he is a great professor. The TAs for the course were great too. I took his class F24.

i miss him so much

Very fair professor

Gary is a very good prof his lectures are very clear and detailed. His labs while they can be challenging give a good opportunity to learn in depth about the subject.

You can clearly tell that Gary is very passionate about what he teaches. The course is tough, but if you are willing to give it the energy, the structure will reward you. The labs can be tough, but they are very interesting and allow you to challenge your thinking. Overall, really enjoying the course!

hard class, you cant pass by half assing it. Go over lecture slides 5 times and then maybe you'll understand content. Labs are hard but great for learning, and garys a really good but strict prof.

Gary is actually a good professor, just for a really, really hard class that you can't do good in without working hard. You need to go to his lectures to understand the content conceptually, all tests and quizzes will test you on that. Just wish he wasn't SO cryptic about giving back test/quiz attempts to see exactly where you went wrong.

Gary is a good professor for a difficult course. The lectures and textbook were both very helpful, and the labs were great at allowing us to build an understanding. My only issue with this course were how tight-lipped Gary is regarding testing. We were not to see Quiz or Midterm answers and were not told what to focus on for the exam(no water too?)

Micro is a really challenging course but Gary is the perfect prof for it. Labs were super helpful and will carry your grade. Final was a bit cooked especially on the wording of the questions and spelling mistakes but overall Gary is the goat

Gary is tough we all know that but he is very knowledgeable and passionate on the subject and that is what makes a great prof. After the midterm he was a bit more bubbly and I really enjoyed being in his class. He is my all time favourite prof. If you study and keep up with the content you will be fine, this is not the course to fall behind on.