COMPTNG 16A
Python with Applications I
Lecture and discussion.
Fall 2025: 4 lectures and 4 discussions. 3 lectures and 3 discussions are open. The oldest of these readings was about 1 month ago.
Grades
3.57
Average grade awarded in COMPTNG 16A. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
70%
of the 1,662 letter grades
D, F or W
2.1%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
7%
91% of those passed
The registrar's own records: 1,662 grades over 15 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
2 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 15 terms ran 3.26 to 3.94.
Historical grades for LIAO, CHUNYANG, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 4 · 1.6%
- A 134 · 53.6%
- A- 34 · 13.6%
- B+ 21 · 8.4%
- B 24 · 9.6%
- B- 9 · 3.6%
- C+ 5 · 2.0%
- C 10 · 4.0%
- C- 2 · 0.8%
- D 4 · 1.6%
- D- 1 · 0.4%
- F 2 · 0.8%
- P 7 of 261
- NP 3 of 261
- I 1 of 261
Percentages are of the 250 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), and incompletes (I).
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 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIAO, CHUNYANG reviews ↗ | 3.53 | 3.53 | 250 | 4 | 69% | heavy | Open, 7 seats left |
| PERLMUTTER, MICHAEL AARON reviews ↗ | 3.92 | 3.94 | 242 | 2 | 96% | light | not teaching it |
| MURRAY, MICHAEL JAMES reviews ↗ | 3.69 | 3.70 | 241 | 5 | 76% | average | not teaching it |
| YANG, LIU reviews ↗ | 3.17 | 3.14 | 199 | 2 | 40% | very light | not teaching it |
| BURNETT, SARAH CASSIE reviews ↗ | 3.41 | 3.40 | 172 | 3 | 60% | average | not teaching it |
| ZHANG, MINXIN reviews ↗ | 3.73 | 3.75 | 161 | 4 | 83% | average | Open, 6 seats left |
| KO, SEYOON reviews ↗ | 3.39 | 3.36 | 87 | 2 | 55% | average | not teaching it |
| KEATING, LEAH reviews ↗ | 3.51 | 3.49 | 85 | 1 | 69% | light | not teaching it |
| LEE, HARLIN reviews ↗ | 3.83 | 3.91 | 54 | 1 | 94% | - | not teaching it |
| LU, JIAYIN reviews ↗ | 3.84 | 3.93 | 49 | 1 | 94% | - | Closed |
| HESTER, ERIC WILLIAM reviews ↗ | 3.34 | 3.26 | 48 | 1 | 44% | - | not teaching it |
| ALEXANDR, YULIA reviews ↗ | 3.34 | 3.26 | 47 | 1 | 47% | - | not teaching it |
| KASHEFI, ALI reviews ↗ | 3.28 | 3.10 | 27 | 1 | 52% | very light | 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.
What comes first
The chain dibs can see is 1 course long before COMPTNG 16A. Read from Fall 2026, because dibs has not read a class page for COMPTNG 16A 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 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. Requisites: course 10A, Computer Science 31, or equivalent, with grades of C- or better. In-depth introduction to Python programming language for students who have already taken beginning programming course in strongly typed, compiled language (C++, C, or Fortran). Core Python language constructs, applications, text processing, data visualization, interaction with spreadsheets and SQL databases, and creation of graphical user interfaces. P/NP or 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 12 readings. That term is over, so nothing has moved since.
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Lec 1 MWF 9:00am-9:50amOpen3.73predicted, this instructor · 161 grades
6 seats left. 24 of 30 enrolled -
not checked yet1 discussion, all open.
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Lec 2 MWF 10:00am-10:50amOpen3.53predicted, this instructor · 250 grades
7 seats left. 23 of 30 enrolled -
not checked yet1 discussion, all open.
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Lec 3 MWF 1:00pm-1:50pmOpen3.53predicted, this instructor · 250 grades
9 seats left. 21 of 30 enrolled -
not checked yet1 discussion, all open.
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Lec 4 MWF 3:00pm-3:50pmClosed3.84predicted, this instructor · 49 grades
30 of 30 · 2 over enrolled -
not checked yet1 discussion, none open. There is no waitlist either, so the only way in is somebody dropping the lecture.
Final enrollment, averaged across each term's sections: between 23 and 58 a term over 13 terms, summer excluded, most recently 23 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 16A was like: the work, the teaching, and what students wish they’d known.
Your experience could be the first.
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Seats over time in Fall 2025
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 · Zhang, M. · 24 of 30 enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 24 of 30.
Lec 2 · Liao, C. · 23 of 30 enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 23 of 30.
Lec 3 · Liao, C. · 21 of 30 enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 21 of 30.
Lec 4 · Lu, J. · 30 of 30 · 2 over enrolled
Unchanged over 2 minutes
Both readings say 30 of 30.
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.