Raw average: 2.57/5 from 60 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.
For this course: 1.0/5 raw quality · 3.0/5 difficulty · 1
reviews
RMP profile ↗ · All captured review dates; profile matched by name.
Mouna Kacem receives criticism for providing autograders without documentation, forcing students to guess implementation details in Android development. Additionally, exams are reported to include unexpected physics content, contributing to a low quality rating.
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.81 GPA, 91.1% A/AB (n=271 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.76 GPA, 93.4% A/AB (n=317 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.59 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=264 letter grades). Includes jointly taught sections.
Historical instructors & teaching patterns
Historical reviews of Suman Banerjee: Suman Banerjee’s course emphasizes a final app project that constitutes the majority of the grade, often requiring significant self-directed learning. Reviewers frequently describe the lectures as disorganized or disconnected from the practical project work, though the professor is noted as caring and generous with grading for those who complete the project.
MOUNA AYARI BEN HADJ KACEM is recorded teaching in Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
SUMAN BANERJEE is recorded teaching in Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2023, Fall 2024, Fall 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.
Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future
schedule.
Calendar & sections
Fall 2026
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Section
Mode
Enrolled / capacity
Waitlist
LEC 001
Classroom Instruction
256 / 280
0
DIS 311
Classroom Instruction
256 / 280
0
Times are Central. Select a meeting for details; export includes recorded dates for the selected sections. Enrollment reflects scan time.
Mouna Kacem's COMPSCI 407 course is poorly supported, featuring undocumented autograders and exams with unexpected physics content.
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.81 GPA, 91.1% A/AB (n=271 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.76 GPA, 93.4% A/AB (n=317 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.59 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=264 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Lab projects require guessing autograder implementations for Android development, which is described as impossible without documentation.
Students face frustration due to lack of documentation for autograders and exams containing irrelevant physics material.
Topics
Mobile hardware interfaces and sensors
Mobile resource constraints
Skills
Mobile application and system design
Optimization for mobile constraints
Grades
Latest available · Fall 2025— not enough history to project Fall 2026.
average GPA
A / AB grades
letter grades
Instructor
Grade distribution · % of letter grades
A39.0%39.0%
AB44.3%44.3%
B14.4%14.4%
BC1.5%1.5%
C0.0%0.0%
D0.4%0.4%
F0.4%0.4%
Grades over time
Through Fall 2025
More grade details Grade mix, volume & source data
Where this course fits relative to
Latest available grades · Fall 2025 · all course levels
3.593.59GPA
Higher than 3838% of other courses
in this group.
Course GPAs · red marks this course’s range
264264letter grades
More recorded grades than 9090% of other courses in this group.
Typical course in this group: 70.070.0 letter grades.
About this comparison
1320 courses over the same term, each with at least 30
recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure
of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded
grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.
Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.
Sources & history
UW–Madison
Catalog & offerings
Descriptions, prerequisites, and recorded course offerings.
Catalog observation history
Observations at scan time; dates do not imply when a catalog change took effect.