COMP SCI at University of Wisconsin-Madison

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 SCI coursework.

• COMP SCI 300Programming IIopens 29 courses (13 directly)
• MATH 234Calculus--functions of Several Variablesopens 10 courses (5 directly)
• MATH 320Linear Algebra and Differential Equationsopens 9 courses (7 directly)
• STAT 311Introduction to Theory and Methods of Mathematical Statistics Iopens 7 courses (6 directly)
• STAT/​MATH 309Introduction to Probability and Mathematical Statistics Iopens 7 courses (2 directly)
• COMP SCI 400Programming IIIopens 6 courses (6 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 SCI 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 57 COMP SCI and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 42 more COMP SCI 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 SCI. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 7 courses deep, ending at COMP SCI 540

  1. STAT/​MATH 309Introduction to Probability and Mathematical Statistics I
  2. STAT 311Introduction to Theory and Methods of Mathematical Statistics I
  3. MATH/​STAT 309Introduction to Probability and Mathematical Statistics I
  4. MATH 331Introductory Probability
  5. COMP SCI 540Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

• 5 courses deep, ending at COMP SCI 642

  1. COMP SCI 200Programming I
  2. COMP SCI 300Programming II
  3. E C E/​COMP SCI 354Machine Organization and Programming

• 4 courses deep, ending at COMP SCI 402

  1. COMP SCI 200Programming I
  2. COMP SCI 300Programming II
  3. L I S/​COMP SCI 102Introduction to Computing

• 4 courses deep, ending at COMP SCI 407

  1. COMP SCI 200Programming I
  2. COMP SCI 300Programming II
  3. COMP SCI 400Programming III

Grade medians

Professors

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Clubs & organizations

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