MATH 280
Programming++ for Mathematics Graduate Students
Grades
3.95
Average grade awarded in MATH 280. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
100%
of the 25 letter grades
D, F or W
0.0%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
0%
nobody in the record took it pass/no pass
The registrar's own records: 25 grades over 3 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.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A 21 · 84.0%
- A- 4 · 16.0%
- S 18 of 43
Percentages are of the 25 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: satisfactory (S).
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 | Spring 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANDREWS, MICHAEL JOSEPH reviews ↗ | 3.86 | 3.95 | 25 | 2 | 100% | - | not teaching it |
| ANDERSON, CHRISTOPHER R reviews ↗ | S/U | 14 S/U | 1 | - | - | 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.
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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.
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In Springs
Ran in 1 of the last 4 Springs, so it turns up in Spring sometimes rather than dependably.
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, three hours. Recommended preparation: at least one programming language. Limited to Mathematics PhD students. Core programming language concepts; object-oriented software design; creation of high-level functionality using object-oriented software constructs and techniques. Object oriented programming in C: variables, fundamental types, casting; control flow; functions, overloading, references, recursion; C-style arrays, vector and string class; programmer-defined structs and classes, constructor initializer lists; const correctness; overloading; memory management, copy and move constructors, copy and move assignment operators, destructors; iterators; inheritance and polymorphism. In-depth introduction to the Python programming language. Core Python language constructs: variables, control flow, functions, lists, tuples, sets, dictionaries, classes, magic methods, inheritance, exceptions; libraries including NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, scikit-learn. Application of C and/or Python to mathematical problems. May not be applied toward MA course requirements. S/U or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
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