COM SCI 31
Introduction to Computer Science I
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
-
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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 446 · 8.1%
- A 1,824 · 33.0%
- A- 744 · 13.5%
- B+ 577 · 10.4%
- B 618 · 11.2%
- B- 328 · 5.9%
- C+ 216 · 3.9%
- C 288 · 5.2%
- C- 100 · 1.8%
- D+ 61 · 1.1%
- D 79 · 1.4%
- D- 30 · 0.5%
- F 219 · 4.0%
- S 1 of 5,547
- I 16 of 5,547
Percentages are of the 5,530 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: satisfactory (S) and 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMALLBERG, DAVID A reviews ↗ | 3.18 | 3.18 | 3,304 | 9 | 51% | average | not teaching it |
| 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 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. 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 Winter 2026
From the people who took it
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