COM SCI 30
Principles and Practices of Computing
Grades
3.25
Average grade awarded in COM SCI 30. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
59%
of the 686 letter grades
D, F or W
8.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
-
the registrar has this letter grade only this term
The registrar's own records: 686 grades over 9 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. 4 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here. Every instructor is pooled here. The table below splits them, and term averages across those 9 terms ran 3.02 to 3.61.
- A+ 104 · 15.2%
- A 198 · 28.9%
- A- 102 · 14.9%
- B+ 68 · 9.9%
- B 51 · 7.4%
- B- 38 · 5.5%
- C+ 26 · 3.8%
- C 22 · 3.2%
- C- 19 · 2.8%
- D+ 10 · 1.5%
- D 12 · 1.7%
- D- 5 · 0.7%
- F 31 · 4.5%
- I 3 of 689
Percentages are of the 686 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: incompletes (I). 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 | Fall 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MILLSTEIN, TODD D reviews ↗ | 3.23 | 3.23 | 617 | 8 | 58% | very light | not teaching it |
| BAIR, KAYLIE MARIE reviews ↗ | 3.39 | 3.42 | 69 | 1 | 68% | - | not teaching it |
| PATTICHIS, REBECCA reviews ↗ | 3.52 | 3.61 | 52 | 1 | 81% | - | not teaching it |
| STOROZHENKO, ANDREI reviews ↗ | 3.27 | 3.28 | 50 | 1 | 54% | - | not teaching it |
| SUN, YIZHOU reviews ↗ | 3.39 | 3.47 | 29 | 1 | 55% | - | not teaching it |
“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.
dibs measures outcomes: grades, seats, how fast a class fills. For what a class is like to sit in, BruinWalk has the reviews.
What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for COM SCI 30, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Falls
Ran in 5 of the last 5 Falls.
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. Designed for students who do not have prior programming experience. Teaches students how to use computers as tool for problem solving, creativity, and exploration through design and implementation of computer programs. Key topics are data types including integers, strings, and lists; control structures, including conditionals and loops; and functional decomposition. Letter grading.