COM SCI 31
Introduction to Computer Science I
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 2 lectures and 8 discussions. Nothing here is open. The oldest of these readings was 23 minutes ago.
Grades
3.24
Average grade awarded in COM SCI 31. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
55%
of the 5,530 letter grades
D, F or W
7.0%
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: 5,530 grades over 16 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
3 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 16 terms ran 2.87 to 3.82.
Historical grades for SMALLBERG, DAVID A, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A 1,255 · 38.0%
- A- 419 · 12.7%
- B+ 364 · 11.0%
- B 398 · 12.0%
- B- 213 · 6.4%
- C+ 147 · 4.4%
- C 199 · 6.0%
- C- 66 · 2.0%
- D+ 39 · 1.2%
- D 41 · 1.2%
- D- 22 · 0.7%
- F 141 · 4.3%
- I 15 of 3,319
Percentages are of the 3,304 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 | Fall 2026 |
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| SMALLBERG, DAVID A reviews ↗ | 3.18 | 3.18 | 3,304 | 9 | 51% | average | Waitlist, 31 of 45 places taken |
| HUANG, BRUCE KUOLONG reviews ↗ | 3.38 | 3.38 | 1,152 | 4 | 62% | light | not teaching it |
| STAHL, HOWARD ALAN reviews ↗ | 3.27 | 3.27 | 1,074 | 5 | 59% | light | 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.
What the work looks like
- 2 exams, said by 14 reviewers
- 1 quiz, said by 1 reviewer
- 7 projects, said by 5 reviewers
Read from 92 reviews 17 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
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. Introduction to computer science via theory, applications, and programming. Basic data types, operators and control structures. Input/output. Procedural and data abstraction. Introduction to object-oriented software development. Functions, recursion. Arrays, strings, pointers. Abstract data types, object-oriented programming. Examples and exercises from computer science theory and applications. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 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 10 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 MW 12:00pm-1:50pmWaitlist3.18predicted, this instructor · 3,304 grades
31 of 45 places taken. 270 of 270 · 2 over enrolled high risk
5 discussions, none open. The way in is the lecture's waitlist, at 31 of 45.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (5)
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Dis 1A
F 10:00am-11:50am · Renee and David Kaplan Hall A65
Waitlist7 of 10 places taken.
60 of 60 enrolled
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Dis 1B
F 10:00am-11:50am · Dodd Hall 175
Waitlist5 of 10 places taken.
60 of 60 enrolled
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Dis 1C
F 12:00pm-1:50pm · Franz Hall 1178
Waitlist8 of 10 places taken.
60 of 60 enrolled
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Dis 1D
F 12:00pm-1:50pm · Renee and David Kaplan Hall 169
Waitlist6 of 10 places taken.
60 of 60 · 1 over enrolled
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Dis 1E
F 12:00pm-1:50pm
Waitlist4 of 5 places taken.
30 of 30 enrolled
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Lec 2 MW 4:00pm-5:50pmWaitlist3.18predicted, this instructor · 3,304 grades
19 of 25 places taken. 150 of 150 enrolled high risk
3 discussions, none open. The way in is the lecture's waitlist, at 19 of 25.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (3)
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 163 and 372 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 196 in Fall 2025. That is the shape across years, not this term, which is above.
From the people who took it
Student reviews
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Seats over time in Fall 2026
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it. This course runs 2 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 · Smallberg, D.A. · 270 of 270 · 2 over enrolled
Filled by 127 over about 2 months
Lec 2 · Smallberg, D.A. · 150 of 150 enrolled
Filled by 81 over about 2 months
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.