CSC 480 Prerequisites

This course requires programming skills in at least one programming language such as Pascal, C/C++, or Java. Assignments will be done in Java; if you don't know Java, but are familiar with C++, you should be able to pick it up as we go. Formally, the prerequisites for the course as stated in the Cal Poly Catalog] are CSC 103 (Fundamentals of Computer Science III) and CSC 141 (Discrete Structures I). Since these courses also have prerequisites, the expanded chain of prerequisites is

CSC 480 (Artificial Intelligence)
  => CSC 103 (Fundamentals of Computer Science III) 
      => CSC 102 (Fundamentals of Computer Science II)
          => CSC 101 (Fundamentals of Computer Science I)
          => MATH 141 or MATH 221
      => CSC 141 (Discrete Structures I); see below
  => CSC 141 (Discrete Structures I)
      => CSC 102 (Fundamentals of Computer Science II); see above
      => MATH 118 
      => MATH 119

The topics you should be familiar with are

numbers, sets, relations, functions and trees

propositional and predicate logic

complexity of algorithms

analysis of algorithms

software development process

Franz Kurfess

Last modified: Mon Sep 16 15:57:33 PDT 2002