COT 3100

4/5

Applications of Discrete Structures

3 credits

Offered: Fall, Spring & Summer

Computer and Information Science & Engineering

Weed-out

Logic, proofs, set theory, combinatorics, and graph theory. Proof-based and a sharp difficulty jump for many students; co-requisite path into COP 3530.

Typical workload: ~10 hrs/week outside class

Do not delay. UF lists this in critical tracking for 4 majors, and 24 courses sit downstream of it in the prerequisite graph. Pushing it back can push back everything behind it.

Why students take this

From UF's official model plans and critical tracking, aggregated by TrackPilot.

Scheduled in 5 of 81 UF model plans, usually in semester 2 (freshman year) and part of critical tracking for 4 majors.

Computer Engineering

Computer Science, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering

Computer Science, CLAS

Digital Arts and Sciences, Bachelor of Science

Data Science

Prerequisites

Chain shows catalog-listed prerequisite courses.

MAC 2311COT 3100

You need MAC 2311 or MAC 3472, and COP 3502C first.

Usually taken with

Courses UF model plans put in the same semester as COT 3100.

What it unlocks

24 courses list this as a prerequisite (directly or downstream).

COP 3530 · Data Structures and Algorithms

CGS 4144 · Introduction to Bioinformatic Algorithms

CIS 4362 · Introduction to Cryptology

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Critical tracking for 4 majors

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