COSC261-12S1 (C) Semester One 2012

Foundations of Computer Science

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 20 February 2012
End Date: Sunday, 24 June 2012
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 4 March 2012
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 20 May 2012

Description

This course deals with fundamental concepts and techniques in Computer Science. The first part includes probabilistic methods of Computer Science. The second part deals with automata theory. The third part consists of graph theory and compilers.

Prerequisites

(1) COSC121; (2) COSC122; (3) 15 points from Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering Mathematics or MSCI110. MATH101 is not acceptable. MATH120/STAT101 are strongly recommended.

Restrictions

COSC202, COSC222

Course Coordinator

For further information see Computer Science and Software Engineering Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Assignment 1 13%
Assignment 2 13%
Assignment 3 13%
Final Exam 61%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $692.00

International fee $3,200.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Computer Science and Software Engineering .

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