PrototypeVerify courses and offerings against the official UF catalog and your advisor. Details
TrackPilot UF
All courses

CDA 3101

3/5

Introduction to Computer Organization

3 credits
Offered: Fall, Spring & Summer
Computer and Information Science & Engineering

Instruction sets, assembly, CPU datapaths, pipelining, and memory hierarchy. Bridges programming and hardware; prerequisite for Operating Systems.

Typical workload: ~9 hrs/week outside class

Why students take this
From UF's official model plans and critical tracking, aggregated by TrackPilot.

Scheduled in 3 of 81 UF model plans, usually in semester 4 (sophomore year).

Computer Engineering
Computer Science, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Computer Science, CLAS
Prerequisites
Chain shows catalog-listed prerequisite courses.
COP 3502CCOP 3503CCDA 3101

You need one of MAC 2233, MAC 2311, or MAC 3472, and COT 3100 first.

Usually taken with
Courses UF model plans put in the same semester as CDA 3101.
COP 3530 · 3 plans
MAC 2313 · 3 plans
PHY 2049 · 3 plans
PHY 2049L · 3 plans
What it unlocks
8 courses list this as a prerequisite (directly or downstream).
COP 4600 · Operating Systems
CDA 4102 · Computer Architecture
CDA 4630 · Embedded Systems
CIS 4360 · Computer and Information Security
Student reviews
Verified peer content — written by UF-email accounts, shown under pseudonyms. Open the CDA3101 discussion.

Loading reviews…

Sign in with a UF email to review this course.

Career relevance
Critical for: Cybersecurity Engineer
Fall 2026 sections
Be the first to plan this
Live from ONE.UF (seat counts are hidden for logged-out users, so waitlist totals show instead). Sections marked “Sample” are labeled demo data.

Registration risk

10 on waitlists now
§8123Marvin Andujar
Collecting data — no snapshots yet

No materials data for this section yet. It is never counted as $0 in schedule totals.

§8125Marvin Andujar
Collecting data — no snapshots yet

No materials data for this section yet. It is never counted as $0 in schedule totals.

§8126Marvin Andujar
1 waitlisted
Collecting data — no snapshots yet

No materials data for this section yet. It is never counted as $0 in schedule totals.

§8127Marvin Andujar
Collecting data — no snapshots yet

No materials data for this section yet. It is never counted as $0 in schedule totals.

§8128Marvin Andujar
Collecting data — no snapshots yet

No materials data for this section yet. It is never counted as $0 in schedule totals.

§8129Marvin Andujar
Collecting data — no snapshots yet

No materials data for this section yet. It is never counted as $0 in schedule totals.

§9123Marvin Andujar
Collecting data — no snapshots yet

No materials data for this section yet. It is never counted as $0 in schedule totals.

§9124Marvin Andujar
4 waitlisted
Collecting data — no snapshots yet

No materials data for this section yet. It is never counted as $0 in schedule totals.

§9125Marvin Andujar
Collecting data — no snapshots yet

No materials data for this section yet. It is never counted as $0 in schedule totals.

§9126Marvin Andujar
Collecting data — no snapshots yet

No materials data for this section yet. It is never counted as $0 in schedule totals.

§9127Marvin Andujar
2 waitlisted
Collecting data — no snapshots yet

No materials data for this section yet. It is never counted as $0 in schedule totals.

§9129Marvin Andujar
3 waitlisted
Collecting data — no snapshots yet

No materials data for this section yet. It is never counted as $0 in schedule totals.

Want conflict-free schedules with these sections? Open the Schedule Builder →