COM SCI 32
Introduction to Computer Science II
Lecture and discussion.
Winter 2026: 3 lectures and 10 discussions. All of them are open. The oldest of these readings was about 1 month ago.
Grades
3.17
Average grade awarded in COM SCI 32. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
50%
of the 4,116 letter grades
D, F or W
6.6%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
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the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 4,116 grades over 12 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 12 terms ran 2.89 to 3.50.
Historical grades for NACHENBERG, CAREY STOVER, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 24 · 4.5%
- A 185 · 34.6%
- A- 65 · 12.1%
- B+ 56 · 10.5%
- B 66 · 12.3%
- B- 36 · 6.7%
- C+ 18 · 3.4%
- C 43 · 8.0%
- C- 4 · 0.7%
- D+ 4 · 0.7%
- D 8 · 1.5%
- D- 9 · 1.7%
- F 17 · 3.2%
- I 1 of 536
Percentages are of the 535 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: incompletes (I).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Winter 2026 |
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| SMALLBERG, DAVID A reviews ↗ | 3.09 | 3.09 | 2,593 | 8 | 46% | heavy | Open, 43 seats left |
| STAHL, HOWARD ALAN reviews ↗ | 3.31 | 3.31 | 562 | 2 | 59% | very light | not teaching it |
| NACHENBERG, CAREY STOVER reviews ↗ | 3.20 | 3.20 | 535 | 3 | 51% | heavy | Open, 42 seats left |
| HUANG, BRUCE KUOLONG reviews ↗ | 3.43 | 3.44 | 426 | 2 | 65% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department, so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
Grade records describe outcomes. For what a course is like to take, read student reviews written on dibs below or follow the separate external review link.
Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before COM SCI 32. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for COM SCI 32 in Winter 2026 and a department can change what it requires. dibs has read a class page for every course in it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Winters
Ran in 4 of the last 4 Winters.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, four hours; discussion, two hours; outside study, six hours. Enforced requisite: course 31. Object-oriented software development. Abstract data type definition and use. Overloading, inheritance, polymorphism. Object-oriented view of data structures: stacks, queues, lists. Algorithm analysis. Trees, graphs, and associated algorithms. Searching and sorting. Case studies and exercises from computer science applications. Letter grading.
Sections in Winter 2026
You enroll in the discussion, not the lecture, so a discussion's status is the one that decides whether you get in. A lecture can read open while every discussion under it is full.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 15 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Lec 1 TR 2:00pm-3:50pmOpen3.20predicted, this instructor · 535 grades
42 seats left. 138 of 180 enrolled -
not checked yet3 discussions, all open.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (4)
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Dis 1A
F 8:00am-9:50am · Perloff Hall
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 1B
F 8:00am-9:50am · Physics and Astronomy Building 1425
Open22 seats left.
38 of 60 enrolled
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Dis 1C
F 2:00pm-3:50pm · Young Hall 2200
Open14 seats left.
46 of 60 enrolled
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Dis 1D
F 2:00pm-3:50pm · Perloff Hall 1102
Open6 seats left.
54 of 60 enrolled
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Lec 2 MW 12:00pm-1:50pmOpen3.09predicted, this instructor · 2,593 grades
43 seats left. 132 of 175 enrolled -
not checked yet4 discussions, all open.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (5)
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Dis 2A
F 12:00pm-1:50pm · Public Affairs Building 2214
Open3 seats left.
57 of 60 enrolled
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Dis 2B
F 12:00pm-1:50pm · Dodd Hall 146
Open5 seats left.
55 of 60 enrolled
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Dis 2C
F 8:00am-9:50am · Renee and David Kaplan Hall 169
Open12 seats left.
18 of 30 enrolled
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Dis 2D
F 8:00am-9:50am · Kinsey Science Teaching Pavilion
Cancelledno enrollment count published
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Dis 2E
F 2:00pm-3:50pm · Boelter Hall 5249
Open23 seats left.
2 of 25 enrolled
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Lec 3 MW 4:00pm-5:50pmOpen3.09predicted, this instructor · 2,593 grades
23 seats left. 97 of 120 enrolled -
not checked yet3 discussions, all open.
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 128 and 505 a term over 10 terms, summer excluded, most recently 233 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
What taking COM SCI 32 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Winter 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 3 lectures; the legend under the chart picks one.
A dot is a reading where something moved: the seat count, the status, or the waitlist.
What a flat run means, and where a line starts
Flat between dots means it did not drift, it held and then jumped, and a line starts when dibs first saw that lecture rather than reaching back before it existed. A lecture that has never moved draws a flat line across the whole window, and one with two or three readings draws a line joining them, which is too few to read a trend from.
Lec 1 · Nachenberg, C.S. · 138 of 180 enrolled
Unchanged over 1 minute
Both readings say 138 of 180.
Lec 2 · Smallberg, D.A. · 132 of 175 enrolled
Unchanged over 1 minute
Both readings say 132 of 175.
Lec 3 · Smallberg, D.A. · 97 of 120 enrolled
Unchanged over 1 minute
Both readings say 97 of 120.
How readings and alerts work
A reading and an hourly record are different things, and most charts here hold more of the second missing than present. dibs has taken readings of a section since long before it began keeping an hour-by-hour log of when it looked, so the empty stretches are dibs saying it was not keeping that log yet, not that it looked and found nothing. That is the age of the record and not a fault.
Seat counts show the last successful read, not live availability. Refreshes can be delayed by request limits or upstream interruptions. Watched sections receive priority, but an hourly update for every section is not guaranteed.
The registrar can change a seat count between our checks. Alerts depend on dibs detecting an opening and completing delivery; a quiet watch does not prove that no seat opened. Check the registrar before enrolling.