COMPTNG 10A
Introduction to Programming
Lecture and discussion. The registrar has published a final exam time.
Fall 2026: 4 lectures and 8 discussions. 2 lectures and 2 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 4 hours ago.
Grades
3.33
Average grade awarded in COMPTNG 10A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
60%
of the 3,214 letter grades
D, F or W
5.9%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
80% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 3,214 grades over 14 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
1 of those terms is a summer session, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 14 terms ran 2.99 to 3.57.
Historical grades for PARK, YESOM, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A 29 · 50.0%
- B+ 6 · 10.3%
- B 18 · 31.0%
- C 3 · 5.2%
- F 2 · 3.4%
- NP 1 of 59
Percentages are of the 58 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: no-passes (NP).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHU, WEIQI reviews ↗ | 3.31 | 3.31 | 583 | 5 | 59% | light | not teaching it |
| LIU, SHU reviews ↗ | 3.74 | 3.76 | 316 | 3 | 85% | - | not teaching it |
| ZHANG, MINXIN reviews ↗ | 3.35 | 3.35 | 297 | 4 | 61% | light | not teaching it |
| LU, JIAYIN reviews ↗ | 3.59 | 3.61 | 245 | 2 | 82% | very light | not teaching it |
| LIU, SITING reviews ↗ | 3.07 | 3.05 | 242 | 2 | 45% | - | not teaching it |
| BURNETT, SARAH CASSIE reviews ↗ | 3.37 | 3.37 | 220 | 2 | 55% | heavy | not teaching it |
| ANDREWS, MICHAEL JOSEPH reviews ↗ | 3.30 | 3.29 | 219 | 3 | 58% | average | not teaching it |
| DING, LINGYUN reviews ↗ | 3.28 | 3.28 | 200 | 2 | 59% | light | not teaching it |
| KASHEFI, ALI reviews ↗ | 3.42 | 3.43 | 174 | 3 | 70% | average | not teaching it |
| YANG, LIU reviews ↗ | 3.25 | 3.24 | 162 | 1 | 56% | very light | not teaching it |
| ALEXANDR, YULIA reviews ↗ | 3.06 | 3.03 | 152 | 2 | 38% | heavy | not teaching it |
| KEATING, LEAH reviews ↗ | 2.98 | 2.93 | 125 | 2 | 44% | light | not teaching it |
| MURRAY, MICHAEL JAMES reviews ↗ | 3.25 | 3.23 | 101 | 1 | 50% | light | not teaching it |
| FENG, XUE reviews ↗ | 3.26 | 3.24 | 66 | 1 | 47% | - | not teaching it |
| PARK, YESOM reviews ↗ | 3.37 | 3.38 | 58 | 1 | 50% | - | Waitlist, 0 of 6 places taken |
| LYU, LIYAO reviews ↗ | 3.23 | 3.20 | 54 | 1 | 43% | - | 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.
dibs has not read this course’s reviews, so it cannot say what kind of work it sets. That is dibs not having looked. It is not a course without papers or exams, and the reviews linked below are the answer until dibs catches up.
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, three hours; discussion, two hours; laboratory, eight hours. No prior programming experience assumed. Basic principles of programming, using C++; algorithmic, procedural problem solving; program design and development; basic data types, control structures and functions; functional arrays and pointers; introduction to classes for programmer-defined data types. P/NP or 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 12 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Lec 1 MWF 10:00am-10:50amOpen
Lin, B.
3.33predicted, all instructors · 3,214 grades1 seat left. 69 of 70 enrolled high risk
2 discussions, 1 open: Dis 1A, TR 9:00am-9:50am.
This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 2 discussions below.
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Lec 2 MWF 11:00am-11:50amWaitlist3.37predicted, this instructor · 58 grades
0 of 6 places taken. 70 of 70 enrolled high risk
2 discussions, none open. The way in is the lecture's waitlist, at 0 of 6.
This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 2 discussions below.
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Lec 3 MWF 1:00pm-1:50pmOpen
Lin, B.
3.33predicted, all instructors · 3,214 grades1 seat left. 69 of 70 enrolled high risk
2 discussions, 1 open: Dis 3A, TR 1:00pm-1:50pm.
This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 2 discussions below.
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Lec 4 MWF 2:00pm-2:50pmWaitlist
Munoz Ewald, P.
3.33predicted, all instructors · 3,214 grades2 of 6 places taken. 70 of 70 enrolled high risk
2 discussions, none open. The way in is the lecture's waitlist, at 2 of 6.
This limit is on the class, so it applies to all 2 discussions below.
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 34 and 142 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 58 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 COMPTNG 10A 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 4 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 · Lin, B. · 69 of 70 enrolled
Filled by 10 over about 2 months
Lec 2 · Park, Y. · 70 of 70 enrolled
Same seat count, but the status went closed to waitlist, the waitlist moved and came back, and the seat count moved and came back over about 2 months
Lec 3 · Lin, B. · 69 of 70 enrolled
Freed 1 seat over about 2 months
Lec 4 · Munoz Ewald, P. · 70 of 70 enrolled
Filled by 5 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.