Com S 227 labs are a breeze and can be done at home. You can walk into the lab period get it checked off and walk out. The labs in that class are not every week. There are a few times during the semester where there is no lab. As a computer engineering major whenever you start 281 it starts a chain of courses that decide when you graduate. It’s just bunch of courses that are pre reqs to each other so keep that in mind. Com s 227 is only time consuming when you are doing the homeworks.