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Generally all the top-tier universities are more theoretical than the lower tier universities. Historically Oxford has been much more focused on the rigorous u
by ig1 16y ago
Generally all the top-tier universities are more theoretical than the lower tier universities.
Historically Oxford has been much more focused on the rigorous underpinning of CS by Mathematics than other universities, although in recent years they've been cutting down on this and moving closer to the CS syllabus offered by other top-tier universities.
Here's the course list for first year at Oxford:
• Functional Programming
• Design & Analysis of Algorithms
• Imperative Programming I
• Imperative Programming II
• Digital Systems
• Discrete Mathematics
• Logic and Proof
• Linear Algebra
• Calculus
• Probability
Unless you do CS with Mathematics at Cambridge, you'll probably be doing a much less mathematically intensive course.
- mjac 16y agoIn the first year all of us do Computer Science (2 papers), Mathematics (1 paper), and a science subject (1 paper, I did Physics). It is predominantly theoretical (something I found hard to cope with): 1st year: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/0809/part1a-cst.html http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/0809/part1a-cst.html 2nd year: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/0910/part1b.html http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/0910/part1b.html 3rd year: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1011/part2.html http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1011/part2.html Although I think there is far too much content to learn thoroughly in three years, it does provide a broad understanding of what there is to know. Does Oxford have online course material, I'd be interested to take a look? I expect the universities overlap a lot but there might be some worthwhile additions.
- ig1 16y agoPerhaps "theoretical" is the wrong word, what I meant is that Oxford courses tend to take a more formal & mathematical approach to topics than other universities.
- arjunnarayan 16y agoAs someone who studied computer science at Cambridge, I can assure you that Cambridge teaches at a very formal and mathematical level.