COMP at McGill University

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate COMP coursework.

• MATH 141Calculus 2opens 57 courses (1.8 directly)
• COMP 206Introduction to Software Systemsopens 46 courses (7.3 directly)
• COMP 202Foundations of Programmingopens 46 courses (5.3 directly)
• COMP 208Computer Programming for Physical Sciences and Engineering opens 46 courses (1.8 directly)
• COMP 204Computer Programming for Life Sciencesopens 46 courses (0.6 directly)
• GEOG 333Introduction to Programming for Spatial Sciencesopens 46 courses (0.5 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate COMP work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 109 COMP and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 38 more COMP courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in COMP. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 10 courses deep, ending at COMP 562

  1. MATH 562Theory of Machine Learning
  2. COMP 562Theory of Machine Learning

• 9 courses deep, ending at COMP 540

  1. MATH 317Numerical Analysis
  2. COMP 350Numerical Computing
  3. COMP 540Matrix Computations

• 9 courses deep, ending at COMP 545

  1. LING 545Computational Semantics with Neural Networks
  2. COMP 545Natural Language Understanding with Deep Learning

• 9 courses deep, ending at COMP 565

  1. MATH 462Machine Learning
  2. COMP 451Fundamentals of Machine Learning
  3. COMP 565Machine Learning in Genomics and Healthcare

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for COMP yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under COMP yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

COMP does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the McGill campus feed.