Very Funny, Excellent Lectures

Knowledgeable, funny, keeps it interesting, is fair.

Great teacher!

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Always keeps ya coming back for more

He's fun, entertaining, and informed.

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Funny, Lazy, Knowledgeable

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Should be able to have Admin. capabilities to ARC Network!

Very helpful. A vast suppository of knowledge.

very nice and clear

Appearances can be deceiving, Mr. L'Estrange gives the appearance of laid back and easy, while this may be true in his style of teaching, knowledge is what you walk away with if you focus on his intent and content of his lectures.

Good teacher, makes you feel at ease with his humor when college life is very stressful.

Excellent CIS teacher

He's makes learning fun yet very effective. A techie guy with a good sense of humor.

His great sense of humor keeps the learning experience light and lively. Top notch!

His personality makes lectures worth it -- period! If you want to learn, learn. He's there to help. Linux is an OS, he lets you sit there and play with it. The only way to truely learn it! All while you're having a blast in his class.

Hands down one of the best teachers. His sense of humor makes even the "dry" parts of Linux fun in a way I never thought a computer course could be. Highly reccomended!

He was funny, and knew his subject..but unless you're interested...you might fall asleep.

One of the best teachers, I have erver come in contact with. Simply Amazing. Very helpful, I really enjoyed going to class everyday.

Very helpful, knows the tricks of the trade. Since the material is very boring he manages to add spice to lectures with humour. Watch it his lectures are useless if you do not study

Great teacher!! I will it more of his classes!!

Very, very, very nice teacher. He know subject very well. His lectures clear and easy to understand. I wish there will be more teacher like him!!!

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Great teacher for the Cisco certification courses! Took many classes with him, enjoyed every one!

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Wonderful teacher..I will take more classes from him.

Awsome Teacher, always want classes by him

he is alot of fun and vary easy going but becareful he does not stress on home work enough and its easy to forget to finish your homework.... and the test are easy one time he had the answers on the back side

We had some blast learning the dark art of hacking with an unexpected humorous personality of a genius instructor.

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If you are a lazy student and just want to take this class for "credits," don't bother. The instructor cares about his class and will take the time to answer any of your questions, class related or home computer related.

he is alot of fun and vary easy going but be careful. He does not stress on homework enough and it's easy to forget to finish your homework and complete quizes on time.

Notice that there are largely only two kinds of rating for him? Either they like him or they don't like him. Well, the bottom line is that he teaches the subject he undertakes to teach. He is very intelligent and show no pride which scores him big in my book. Note: I am lying avout the class code.

Note: Continuing: There should be more people like him in this world who doesn't talk bs. I like that he is like that because I am the same way. It's good to know people I can related to exist:) BTW, he is in IT, not History.

I've taken several of his classes, they are not overly difficult and the work is not overly demanding. However, you do need to do the work assigned and show up for class. He won't bug you about homework or quizzes so you have to be self-motivated. He is very knowledgeable and easy to work with if you just let him know what's up.

I have enjoyed Mike?s classes he is very knowledgeable and enjoys teaching the classes. He wants you to learn something while you are in the class so you should show up for the classes. He is not you mother so you have to do your work. Good sense of humor and fun and very helpful if you ask for help.

The new homeless look that Mike is sporting is HOT, Hot, HOT!!!!!!

Awesome teacher, very helpful. Tests are kind of hard, but if you read the book you'll be okay.

Great teacher.don need to worry about any thing.Very easy tests.

CCNA program, very knowledgeable about computer networking. No issues with his instructions, labs or tests. Responds well to email and off the wall real life questions. No idea what other peoples problem is other than they must be speed freaks. Emails take a few days to respond to but honestly do you need to worry about that if your ahead on hw?

Yes he can be difficult. Ya he will rip you for YOUR stupid questions, but he TEACHES. He gets his content across, and if YOU can keep up and do your HW and labs, etc, you'll be fine. Can't count the # of times been in class and STUDENTS admit to not getting their work done on time.

Great Prof. He can get off topic at times, but gets across what you need to learn.

not bad

He is the best instructor I ever had for networking classes. He is very knowledgeable and gives good examples to understand the topics. His classes are very interesting, keeps you focused and not boring at all.

L'Estrange is a great teacher. Going into learning linux I had a little knowledge but I came out with a lot. His assignments can be slightly difficult to understand but the point of them it to make you come up with your own way to solve the problem - which is a great way to learn for the real world. Quizzes are straight out of the book.

Regard my previous post for this class as well. CISC 324 is just a continuation for those who want to go more in-depth with linux. You will do more command-line based work and dealing with BASH scripting. He tells you what the scripts and other assignments need to do and you get to choose how to reach the end. Overall he's great, I recommend him.

Surely knows his stuff. Excellent technician. Once you learn his teaching style and how to use the textbook you can learn and excel. Course is mostly lecture with not much time devoted to labs so you have to do labs on your own time. Entertaining, relatively clear. Could be more helpful with students who have difficulty in some areas.

Apparently many students who take this class are whiners and crybabies. Sorry, you will actually have to study outside of class. Someday, when you grow up and get a real job, and your boss says get this done by tomorrow, maybe you'll appreciate profs like L'Estrange who made you work.

Mr. Michael L'Estrange is THE best instructor I have ever had. I would never come to a website like this for rating. But as soon as I found out about this website, I knew I had to do this and Rate him as the greatest professor! Setareh

Prof L'Estrange is a great professor. He teaches the material in-depth and well and also gives relative real-life examples. Everyone who complains about his class just doesn't want to put the time and effort that is really required. Unfortunately, you won't get far in a job or a real UC with that type of attitude.

Prof L'Estrange is a great professor. He teaches the material in-depth and well and also gives relative real-life examples. Everyone who complains about his class just doesn't want to put the time and effort that is really required. Unfortunately, you won't get far in a job or a real UC with that type of attitude.

The material is easier to understand in this class because you learn all the needed concepts in CISN 140. So if you did well in that class you will do just fine here. More labs this time around, which is nice to be able to use real equipment that you would use in the real world.

Anyone who thinks this professor is difficult or mean simply didn't do the assignments or pay attention in class. Yes, you have to show up for each class session. Yes, you have to do the required reading. Yes, you have to do EVERY assignment. Yes, if you give him attitude he'll give it back. This is college. You get out of it what you put into it.

Prof is very very knowledgeable. I didn't know anything about Linux before taking this class. He provides lots of hands on and is willing to help if you ask questions.

Good class

Good prof

Knew nothing about Linux, great teacher! Lots of homework, but it really helps in understanding the OS. He jokes a lot but I found it pretty fun. If you really don't understand something, he is very willing to help in lab time.

This professors personality put him at the top as my favorite professor yet. Ive never had a professor who could make a 4.5 hour class enjoyable and make over 60% of the class laugh EVERY class. Fun teacher to have. Very fast lectures, but to be expected from 8 week courses, if you are not afraid to ask questions he is more then willing to help.

Knows how to lecture, gives you a back story to what your about to learn and then teaches you. Has funny jokes, great attitude, & extremely helpful! Usually has an assistant to help students answer questions as he lectures. Cons: Is a little unorganized with the online portion of class, but don't worry just attend class you will get an A!

Love this guy! Everything in his lecture has a quick story or fact, makes the class so interesting. He is also very helpful, he will show you what to do with shortcuts and tips. Recommend this one, best instructor ever.

Great professor, great attitude and gives excellent lectures! However he often forgets to assign homework for the week ( for hybrid classes ) because he teaches a lot of classes. When he does remember, he assigns a ton of labs to complete. He needs to work on organizational skills a bit. Overall he is a still a great teacher!

Great professor. Knows the material and can clearly explain the concepts. A slow start to this 8-week course resulted in a furious middle with lots of labs, but it was manageable. I enjoyed the class and learned a lot about Windows security. This info is useful personally and professionally. I only wish I had more classes to take from him.

He is a funny professor. Very easy that I passed it with my eyes closed. But since I knew all the material already, class was boring. But that was just me. To me, he's awesome! Just do the work & come to class.

This guy is a great computer science professor, he is hard but helpful. In this class you will learn the material and many off topic information.

Good class interaction and lectures. He is interested in you learning the subject not just the text book stuff. One of the better CISC professors at ARC. If you need help he is very approachable.

He really knows what he teaches. If you ask him, he explains. Gives super good examples. And you can't get bored. In one class, he had two complains: one that he talks too fast and one that he talks too slow.

He is cool and funny. Very easy going. It's a pretty easy and basic class if you are familiar with computers. Class goes slow when you have to wait around for everyone to catch up with the material. He seemed helpful for those people who fell behind. He is really sarcastic and offensive to some but I thought he was funny

Great class and easy to pass if you show up and do the assignments. He is really funny and usually only talks off task during the time students are catching up. He is helpful if you fall behind as well. The directions are clear to understand but he will say them fast so you have to pay attention. Perfect class I would recommend taking.

Great teacher

Professor L'Estrange's anecdotes are great! He delivers a huge amount of information. Plan on a ton of reading in a short period of time because it's all crammed into 8 weeks. Do the Labs, it will make a huge difference. The first of four classes.

Professor L'Estrange has a wealth of experience that he shares. Loved hearing the stories from the past because he relates it to what's current! Be ready for your brain to hurt from a ton of information in a short period of time. This was the most intense class of the four in the series. Do the Labs, it will make a huge difference.

If you've taken CISN 140 and 141, this will seem much easier. A ton of reading in a short period of time. The packet tracer exams are tough. Make sure you do the labs. A great class for those who want to learn Cisco Networking. Geeked-out on the lectures. Loved the class.

Best teacher at the school. He knows the material and he is very smart. Would definitely take a course taught by him again.

Good teacher, good feedback, answers questions respectfully and thoroughly.

One of my fav teachers at ARC. Teaches fast, which I like. He does get off topic from time to time, but I was still able to learn everything I needed to pass the class. I'd take any of the classes he teaches

The one teacher who actually taught us stuff rather than saying "Here is a book, now go read it and do pages XYZ." Made learning linux fun. Would go off on stories sometimes, but nothing too bad.

He is one of my favorite teachers of all time. He has made learning GNU/Linux fun, truly a wizard. I have since given up the bloated operating system known as windows and converted fully to GNU/Linux. As I type this I can feel the freedom flow within me. I feel awoken, L'Estrange has shown me the path to enlightenment, GNU/Linux is the vessel.

There is not enough space to contain all I have to say, this class has activated my autism (Asperger's syndrome specifically) beyond belief. I do every assignment in class with excitement. I dread the moment class ends, I wish I could stay for ever and learn more and more about GNU/Linux. I love this class because I don't NEED to talk to anyone.

Lestrange is an awesome teacher. He teaches you stuff in class that the text book does not teach. The only thing that is hard is that he doesn't explain when homework is due all the time so make sure you don't miss a class. He assigns work randomly. Besides that he is hilarious and easy to learn from.

very interesting professor.

no due date for homework

Professor L'Estrange used NetAcad for the linux course content, which is pretty good; it's also free for the course students. He lectures 2x/week and has the recordings posted on the course site for later viewing. Bash scripting takes up the 1st half of the course, then you get into other administrative-type monitoring tasks. no installs/config.

He definitely wasn't very responsive, but this guy gets credit for taking the time to actually lead lectures. He knows the subject well, is fun to listen to, and provides very relevant information (helped me understand some principles that other classes failed to teach). Learned a lot in his class, but it there is VERY little hand holding.

Best professor ever! The class is fun, and the Assignments are simple:)

despite all of the awful reviews, Professor Lestrange is a great teacher.

best teacher I have taken he is chill and explains everything clearly. He also answers every question

super chill, doesn't give any homework really, u have to read the online text book, but it is not necessary bc of how indpeth his love lectures are.

Simple Professor. Just show up and do the assignments and you'll have no problem getting a good grade. He seems tough at first, but you will warm up to him. The only big assignment was a final exam that was pretty straightforward. I recommend him if you don't mind going in person for this type of class.

Initially he seemed a bit standoffish, but when you get around to talking to him, he's actually chill and clearly wants to educate his students for a career in IT with the nature of his assignments. Linux can be a rough learning curve for some people - pay attention to the lectures and show up in person for lab time so he can help you.

The best professor ever.

Professor L'Estrange is an exceptional professor. He's going to teach you what's important to know about the field of Information Technology. He's very real about what's happening in the field and what you need to do to succeed. But most importantly, he's there to support you every step of the way. His knowledge is as impressive as his humor!

One of the most funniest Professors I have ever had. Get ready to be laughing your face off out of nowhere! The new NetaCad website that the class uses is a bit difficult to navigate because it is still new, but once you get used to it, you'll be chilling. The finals was a bit complex terminal work, but my buddy helped me out with the CLI commands.

Great professor funny guy tells a lot of jokes. Ask all the questions you have in person very hard to get to when class is out. But overall very helpful and will answer all your questions.

Before taking this class, I've heard various rumors about Professor L'Estrange about his method of teaching and ethic. So far in my experience, he seems like a very understanding and unique teacher. He is funny, charismatic, fair, and approachable for not only guidance with schoolwork, but also for conversations. Hope to take more classes with him