COMPTNG 10A
Introduction to Programming
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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 218 · 6.8%
- A 1,243 · 38.7%
- A- 465 · 14.5%
- B+ 301 · 9.4%
- B 303 · 9.4%
- B- 192 · 6.0%
- C+ 100 · 3.1%
- C 152 · 4.7%
- C- 53 · 1.6%
- D+ 31 · 1.0%
- D 58 · 1.8%
- D- 9 · 0.3%
- F 89 · 2.8%
- P 80 of 3,356
- NP 20 of 3,356
- S 1 of 3,356
- I 36 of 3,356
- NR 3 of 3,356
- DR 2 of 3,356
Percentages are of the 3,214 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), incompletes (I), no report (NR), 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 | Summer Session C 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% | - | not teaching it |
| 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.
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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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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 Summer Session C 2026
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