An undergraduate computer science degree, mapped out. Over three years you build the subject from the ground up — from your first lines of code and the data structures beneath them, through the machinery of operating systems, networks and databases, to the deep theory of computation and the frontiers of graphics, distributed systems and artificial intelligence. This tier gathers those ideas into courses so you can see the whole shape of a degree, with the lessons still to be written marked clearly.

The three years

Each year is a course — a curated path through exactly what that stage covers.

• University Computer Science — Year 1 — the foundation year: programming, data structures, algorithms, discrete maths and how a computer works.
• University Computer Science — Year 2 — the machinery: operating systems, concurrency, architecture, databases, networks, software engineering and the theory of computation.
• University Computer Science — Year 3 — the frontiers: compilers, programming languages, distributed systems, AI, graphics, security and beyond.

By subject

Prefer to climb one strand all the way up? Follow a single subject vertically across the years.

• Computer Science by Subject — the sixteen strands, listed together.

The individual strands:

• Programming and Software Engineering
• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Theory of Computation
• Operating Systems and Concurrency
• Computer Architecture
• Computer Networks
• Databases and Data Management
• Compilers and Programming Languages
• Functional Programming
• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Graphics
• Distributed Systems
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Cyber Security and Cryptography
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning