COM SCI 35L
Software Construction
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 2 lectures and 7 discussions. 1 lecture and 2 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 25 hours ago.
Grades
3.01
Average grade awarded in COM SCI 35L. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
31%
of the 2,624 letter grades
D, F or W
5.5%
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: 2,624 grades over 12 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
No summer session is in that record.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 12 terms ran 2.86 to 3.34.
Historical grades for DUERSCHMID, TOBIAS, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 4 · 1.7%
- A 58 · 25.1%
- A- 53 · 22.9%
- B+ 44 · 19.0%
- B 33 · 14.3%
- B- 19 · 8.2%
- C+ 4 · 1.7%
- C 4 · 1.7%
- C- 4 · 1.7%
- D+ 4 · 1.7%
- D 3 · 1.3%
- F 1 · 0.4%
- S 1 of 234
- DR 2 of 234
Percentages are of the 231 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: satisfactory (S) and withdrawals (DR).
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.
Withdrawals are the exception to "excluded": DR is not scored, but it IS counted in the D, F or W figure above, which is reported over the letter grades plus the withdrawals. Pass/no pass and S/U outcomes are outside that figure on both sides.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Fall 2026 |
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| EGGERT, PAUL RICHARD reviews ↗ | 2.98 | 2.98 | 2,393 | 11 | 29% | heavy | Open, 19 seats left |
| DUERSCHMID, TOBIAS reviews ↗ | 3.32 | 3.34 | 231 | 1 | 50% | - | Closed |
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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- 1 exam, 5 mentions in past reviews
- 6 problem sets, 4 mentions in past reviews
- 1 project, 2 mentions in past reviews
- Group works mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
- Presentations mentioned, no number given, 1 mention in past reviews
Based on 26 reviews; source checked about 1 month ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 2 courses long before COM SCI 35L. 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 Falls
Ran in 4 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. Requisite: course 31. Fundamentals of tools and environments for software construction projects, particularly open-source platforms used in upper-division computer science courses. Software practice through collaborative student project. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2026
Choose an open discussion to enroll; an open lecture alone does not mean a seat is available.
Seat counts as of : the oldest of these 9 readings. 3 of these readings are more than a day old and the other 6 were read in the last day, so this date belongs to those rows rather than to the page. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Seats
ClosedLecture: 120 of 120 enrolled
Instructor
3.32Predicted GPA
Historical records for DUERSCHMID, TOBIAS; 231 letter gradesSeat risk
high risk4 discussions, none open. No waitlist listed.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 4 discussions
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Closed
60 of 60 enrolled
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Closed by the department
no enrollment count published
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Closed
60 of 60 enrolled
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Closed by the department
no enrollment count published
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Seats
Open19 seats left in discussions.
Lecture: 41 of 60 enrolled
Instructor
2.98Predicted GPA
Historical records for EGGERT, PAUL RICHARD; 2,393 letter gradesSeat risk
high risk3 discussions, 2 open: Dis 2B, F 12:00pm-1:50pm, and Dis 2C, F 2:00pm-3:50pm.Every discussion, with its time and seats: 3 discussions
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 149 and 284 a term over 12 terms, summer excluded, most recently 234 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 35L was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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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 · Duerschmid, T. · 120 of 120 enrolled
Same seat count, but the status moved and came back, the cap went unpublished and came back, and the seat count moved and came back over 2 months
Lec 2 · Eggert, P.R. · 41 of 60 enrolled
Freed 6 seats over 2 months
How readings and alerts work
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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.
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