University of Toronto Scarborough
CSCA08H3
Introduction to Computer Science I
What was the average?
B-
2.5 GPA across 2 observed terms. Most recent: Winter 2025.
How is it graded?
Not yet verified
No syllabus we can lawfully use has been verified for this course.
How confident is this?
Med
A small number of terms, so read it as a range.
From the calendar
Official source · University of Toronto ScarboroughProgramming in an object-oriented language such as Python. Program structure: elementary data types, statements, control flow, functions, classes, objects, methods. Lists; searching, sorting and complexity. This course is intended for students having a serious interest in higher level computer science courses, or planning to complete a computer science program.
- Prerequisite
- Grade 12 Calculus and Vectors and [one other Grade 12 mathematics course or CTL Math Preparedness course with additional resources for CMS students].
- Exclusions
- CSCA08H3CSCA20H3CSCA48H3
What people actually got
Last observed Winter 20252 terms observed
This is a student-contributed aggregate, not an official University of Toronto record. It is also not a measure of how hard the course is — a course average moves with who enrols in it, not only with the material.
This rests on 2 reported terms. It is shown because hiding it would not make it less true, but one or two results are a datapoint, not a distribution — a single unusual cohort moves this number a long way.
How well we know this course
2015–2023Pyko’s archive holds 28 documents for CSCA08H3, across 7 years between 2015 and 2023.
- 9
- Final exams
- 8
- Midterms
- 8
- Assignments
- 3
- Handouts
Both a midterm and a final appear in what we hold, so this course has historically been assessed on both rather than on a single end-of-term paper.
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What we don’t have yet
Source ledger
Report an error →| Claim | Source | Captured | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hours | University of Toronto Scarborough | 2026-07-25 | public fact |
| Historical average across 2 terms | Student contributions, consented | 2026-07-25 | user contributed aggregate |
| 28 archived documents, 2015-2023 | Pyko archive | 2026-07-25 | index only |
Page last verified 2026-07-25. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.
What this opens up
7 courses list CSCA08H3 as a prerequisiteThe other 2 have no page yet. Listing a course here means it names CSCA08H3 among its prerequisites — often as one of several ways to satisfy the same requirement, so this is what CSCA08H3 makes available, not what it alone guarantees.
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