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 4 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was 13 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% | - | Closed |
| 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
Reported assignments across instructors and terms. This term's syllabus may differ.
What the work looks like
- 2 exams, 16 mentions in past reviews
- 3 quizzes, 3 mentions in past reviews
- 8 problem sets, 16 mentions in past reviews
Based on 382 reviews; source checked 7 days ago. dibs counts only what a review actually states, so a kind of work nobody mentioned is absent rather than zero.
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
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 12 readings. Seat readings are snapshots, not live availability. Their timestamps show when dibs last checked.
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Seats
Open3 seats left in discussions.
Lecture: 67 of 70 enrolled
Instructor
Lin, B.
3.33Predicted GPA
Historical records across all instructors; 3,214 letter gradesSeat risk
high riskThis limit is on the class, so it applies to all 2 discussions below.
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Seats
ClosedLecture: 70 of 70 enrolled
Seat risk
high riskThis limit is on the class, so it applies to all 2 discussions below.
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Seats
ClosedLecture: 70 of 70 enrolled
Instructor
Lin, B.
3.33Predicted GPA
Historical records across all instructors; 3,214 letter gradesSeat risk
high riskThis limit is on the class, so it applies to all 2 discussions below.
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Seats
Open3 seats left in discussions.
Lecture: 67 of 70 enrolled
Instructor
Munoz Ewald, P.
3.33Predicted GPA
Historical records across all instructors; 3,214 letter gradesSeat risk
high riskThis 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. · 67 of 70 enrolled
Nothing read since 16 Oct, 13 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 8.
Lec 2 · Park, Y. · 70 of 70 enrolled
Nothing read since 16 Oct, 13 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, same seat count, but the status moved and came back, the waitlist moved and came back, and the seat count moved and came back.
Lec 3 · Lin, B. · 70 of 70 enrolled
Nothing read since 16 Oct, 13 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, same seat count, but the status moved and came back, the waitlist moved and came back, and the seat count moved and came back.
Lec 4 · Munoz Ewald, P. · 67 of 70 enrolled
Nothing read since 16 Oct, 13 hours ago. Over the 2 months before that, filled by 2.
How readings and alerts work
Dated seat counts can be available even when hourly check history is missing. Gaps do not show whether seats changed between observations.
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.