2026-05-10 (Mother's Day!) 10:30 a.m. -- Here are the course grades, and the final exam scores. My grading program doesn't show all of the scores at the end of the semester, for privacy reasons. The final exam histogram is at the bottom, as usual. The exam average is a little bit higher than those of the midterms, which is good. (Finals, being comprehensive, often have lower averages than midterms.) Combined with the replacement of lowest midterm scores with final exam averages, and the project (on which students typically do very well), the course grades look a lot better than they did, say, after the second midterm. Typically, a class will have natural gaps in the sequence of class averages. This time, the gaps aligned particularly well with the grade cut-offs. Even so, if you are just below a letter-grade cutoff, rest assured that I did review your final. If there's a student earning a grade of B, C, D, or E, there will be a student with the top B/C/D/E. Being one of those students does not entitle you to the next-higher grade. (If it did, after enough iterations, everyone would end up with an 'A'!) I reviewed a half-dozen finals. Demanding that I review or re-review your exam because you worked really hard, or you would lose your 4.0 GPA if you get a 'B', or anything of the sort, aren't valid justifications to change your final exam score or your class grade. When looking at the final exam scores, please note: The max score possible was 85, not 100. That means an exam score of 68, say, is better than it may seem at first glance (68/85 is 80%). I will not be uploading course grades to UAccess until later today, at the earliest. You get to see them before the University does. I wish you all a summer that is safe, relaxing, productive, and everything else you hope it will be. Congratulations to those of you who are graduating this spring! --lim P.S. OK, two more details: One: The SCS response rate ended up at 76%. Thanks in advance for your feedback, which I can't read yet! (Instructors don't get to see the SCS data and comments until sometime -- days or weeks, it varies -- after we submit class grades.) There were 18 responses to my Google Forms survey; thank you to those who took the time to answer those questions (which I also have not read yet). Two: The cover page question answers heavily favor keeping a new OO language in Topic 3 over illustrating OO language concepts using Python and Java. So, I will! --lim ============================================================================== Class: CSc 372, Comparative Programming Languages (Spring,2026) NOTE: The "replace the lowest midterm with a percentage-equivalent copy of the final exam score" policy is in effect; these scores reflect this adjustment. Final Exam Grade Final Course IDENTIFIER ( 85 points) Course Average Grade ------------------------------------------------------------- 969455 80 96.22 A 800363 79 96.09 A 465807 77 95.36 A 025437 76 94.96 A 941158 78 94.66 A 743035 73 91.78 A 004511 71 91.67 A 811878 73 91.03 A 166760 72 90.83 A 468949 67 90.36 A 237293 70 90.06 A 488851 71 89.94 A 150801 72 89.71 A 092872 66 89.64 A ------------------------------------------------------------- 421548 64 87.62 B 575537 68 87.40 B 031220 74 87.38 B 849127 61 87.21 B 686774 65 86.96 B 734568 58 84.49 B 226780 60 84.21 B 405131 59 84.17 B 504184 66 83.88 B 933633 54 83.84 B 237796 65 83.58 B 225436 64 83.08 B 908313 57 82.05 B 479000 60 81.76 B 407502 54 81.50 B 047696 58 81.07 B 248504 58 80.91 B 984731 57 80.17 B 969655 60 79.57 B ------------------------------------------------------------- 650636 53 78.94 C 048445 46 78.78 C 950198 61 77.97 C 512682 56 77.80 C 888062 50 77.33 C 231143 65 76.67 C 048347 45 76.42 C 597826 58 76.40 C 522102 59 75.61 C 936349 51 75.55 C 315945 57 75.12 C 350311 43 74.12 C 948987 41 72.91 C 319023 60 72.90 C 248583 44 72.52 C 237257 43 72.32 C 983834 51 70.90 C 502899 35 69.83 C 088845 38 69.62 C ------------------------------------------------------------- 768242 49 66.81 D 584934 28 66.59 D 411185 18 66.39 D 352750 56 65.96 D 977817 15 64.31 D 492775 30 62.48 D 068834 28 60.10 D ------------------------------------------------------------- 534406 46 58.78 E 988078 14 56.43 E 464738 24 55.33 E 131466 9 45.80 E 687430 30 33.38 E 036076 0 31.50 E 048411 0 3.00 E 516658 0 0.00 E ------------------------------------------------------------- Class Averages: 54.53(64.15%) 76.39 Class Std. Devs.: 17.06 16.32 Course: CSc 372, Comparative Programming Languag Exam: FINAL Section: 001 Date: 05/08 Semester: Spring,2026 Weight: 18% 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | # # 3 | # # ## 2 | ### ### ###### # # # # # # 1 |##### ##### ##### ###### ## ### #### # # # # # # # ## # ++----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+----+- 8 7 7 6 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 2 2 1 10 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 5 09 High Score: 80 (of 85) Class Average: 54.53 (64.15%) Low Score: 9 Std. Deviation: 17.06 Grade Range #Students ----- ------------- --------- A 85.0 - 76.1 4 B 76.0 - 67.6 10 C 67.5 - 59.1 14 D 59.0 - 50.6 16 E 50.5 - 0.1 20 (not including the 3 scores of 0)