COM SCI 131
Programming Languages
Lecture and lab.
Fall 2025: 1 lecture and 6 discussions. 1 lecture and 5 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was about 1 month ago.
Grades
2.96
Average grade awarded in COM SCI 131. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
39%
of the 1,996 letter grades
D, F or W
10.3%
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: 1,996 grades over 11 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 11 terms ran 2.73 to 3.22.
Historical grades for NACHENBERG, CAREY STOVER, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 89 · 8.7%
- A 218 · 21.2%
- A- 152 · 14.8%
- B+ 145 · 14.1%
- B 87 · 8.5%
- B- 82 · 8.0%
- C+ 70 · 6.8%
- C 47 · 4.6%
- C- 26 · 2.5%
- D+ 32 · 3.1%
- D 25 · 2.4%
- D- 28 · 2.7%
- F 25 · 2.4%
- I 1 of 1,029
- DR 2 of 1,029
Percentages are of the 1,026 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: incompletes (I) 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 2025 |
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| NACHENBERG, CAREY STOVER reviews ↗ | 3.06 | 3.06 | 1,026 | 3 | 45% | average | Open, 20 seats left |
| EGGERT, PAUL RICHARD reviews ↗ | 2.86 | 2.86 | 970 | 8 | 32% | very heavy | 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
- Exams mentioned, no number given, said by 7 reviewers
- 4 quizzes, said by 1 reviewer
- 6 problem sets, said by 6 reviewers
- 4 projects, said by 5 reviewers
Read from 46 reviews 16 days 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 3 courses long before COM SCI 131. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for COM SCI 131 in Fall 2025 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 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; laboratory, two hours; outside study, six hours. Enforced requisites: courses 33, 35L. Basic concepts in design and use of programming languages, including abstraction, modularity, control mechanisms, types, declarations, syntax, and semantics. Study of several different language paradigms, including functional, object-oriented, and logic programming. Letter grading.
Sections in Fall 2025
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 7 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Lec 1 TR 12:00pm-1:50pmOpen3.06predicted, this instructor · 1,026 grades
20 seats left. 340 of 360 enrolled -
not checked yet6 discussions, 5 open.
Every discussion, with its time and seats (6)
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Lab 1A
F 2:00pm-3:50pm · Kinsey Science Teaching Pavilion 1220B
Open1 seat left.
59 of 60 enrolled
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Lab 1B
F 12:00pm-1:50pm · Haines Hall 118
Open4 seats left.
56 of 60 enrolled
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Lab 1C
F 12:00pm-1:50pm · Franz Hall 1260
Closed60 of 60 enrolled
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Lab 1D
F 2:00pm-3:50pm · Public Affairs Building 1222
Open7 seats left.
53 of 60 enrolled
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Lab 1E
F 2:00pm-3:50pm · Haines Hall 220
Open2 seats left.
58 of 60 enrolled
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Lab 1F
F 2:00pm-3:50pm · Dodd Hall 175
Open6 seats left.
54 of 60 enrolled
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Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 96 and 375 a term over 11 terms, summer excluded, most recently 340 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 131 was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
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Seats over time in Fall 2025
How each lecture has filled since dibs first saw it.
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. · 340 of 360 enrolled
Unchanged over 1 minute
Both readings say 340 of 360.
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.