George is really helpful. He is always willing to help. He is passionate about the class and you can feel that. If you need help, he is always there. I like his CS 118.

Varghese was honestly my favorite professor at this school. He's so incredibly sweet and helpful to his students. If you ask him to reexplain anything he will. His exams are very logic based so if you understand concepts you'll do fine. His homework is similar too in that it's more about expanding on ideas than any calculations. He's so nice that he gave out answers to questions straight up during exams so stay until the end. He comes off as extremely caring and concerned and is so friendly. Definitely take him if you have the chance.

Varghese is a fantastic professor. He genuinely cares about his students learning the materials and is generally very understanding and accommodating. His slides and lecture notes are both posted on CCLE but its worth going to class since he explains things well. He's pretty receptive to student feedback and has gone back to re-do previous lecture topics that students probably didn't get the first time around.

Homeworks and projects are a little tricky (the project more so). Absolutely start early on the project - it seems like you get a lot of time but it's very time consuming to set up the VM, do the actual coding, test your code, etc.

Tests are a little tricky but Varghese is extremely helpful during exams. There's always a long line to ask him questions and he always gives genuinely helpful advice (sometimes even giving big hints to questions).

Absolutely take CS118 with him if you can.

Varghese is the man to take CS 118 with. The only complaint I have is that it's an 8 am but his engaging lectures will keep you awake. He was extremely helpful during office hours and made sure to answer every student's questions. After taking this class, you will come out with a solid understanding of how the internet works. Start the projects and homeworks early, read the slides and notes, go to office hours, and you should have no problem earning a good grade.

Such an amazing professor, I'm very glad that I have taken him. Make sure not to miss the lectures and the reading notes he posts.

Amazing Professor. Hard to make it to all his 8am's but the lectures are so worth it. You could learn the material from the notes and slides he uploads but he is such a good lecturer you wouldn't want to miss it. Go to lectures, start the project early, read the lecture notes he uploads to study, and you should do just fine.

Varghese is the man for 118. Great lectures, manageable material. Things start to get a little confusing at the end but that's more the nature of the material then anything to do with George. Tests are fair, definitely would recommend going to lecture and taking the time to understand the HWs. All in all one of the better CS classes I've taken at UCLA.

He did a great job!

I didn't get a high grade in this class, but to me grade is not important than the knowledge. He taught this class very well and I am quite confident on my knowledge thanks to him.

The only issue we had in this class was programming project. In fact, that's the reason of my low grade. The assignment testing part was not clear. I wrote the code, but I wasn't sure that's what they wanted. No where in spec was mentioned about testing. A week after submission deadline, some students told me that the code was supposed to produce a file and that file should have contained all communications.

Nonetheless, I recommend you to take his class because he teaches well and he told us that he will come up with better testing tools for programming assignment or make some changes to it.

Your "A" is guaranteed, if you attend the lectures and do homework!!

Additionally, you will gain some knowledge that is useful.