COMPTNG 16A
Python with Applications I
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 all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 167 · 10.0%
- A 771 · 46.4%
- A- 227 · 13.7%
- B+ 159 · 9.6%
- B 122 · 7.3%
- B- 67 · 4.0%
- C+ 49 · 2.9%
- C 58 · 3.5%
- C- 9 · 0.5%
- D+ 7 · 0.4%
- D 11 · 0.7%
- D- 2 · 0.1%
- F 13 · 0.8%
- P 116 of 1,801
- NP 12 of 1,801
- I 9 of 1,801
- DR 2 of 1,801
Percentages are of the 1,662 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), incompletes (I), 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIAO, CHUNYANG reviews ↗ | 3.53 | 3.53 | 250 | 4 | 69% | heavy | not teaching it |
| 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 | not teaching it |
| 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% | - | not teaching it |
| 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.
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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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What comes first
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Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
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 Summer Session C 2026
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