Faculty of Arts & Science · St. George
CSC165H1
Mathematical Expression and Reasoning for Computer Science
What was the average?
C+
2.43 GPA across 3 observed terms. Most recent: Winter 2026.
How is it graded?
Not yet verified
No syllabus we can lawfully use has been verified for this course.
How confident is this?
Med
A small number of terms, so read it as a range.
From the calendar
Official source · Faculty of Arts & ScienceIntroduction to abstraction and rigour. Informal introduction to logical notation and reasoning. Understanding, using and developing precise expressions of mathematical ideas, including definitions and theorems. Structuring proofs to improve presentation and comprehension. General problem-solving techniques. Representation of floating-point numbers. Running time analysis of iterative programs. Formal definition of Big-Oh. Diagonalization, the Halting Problem, and some reductions. Unified approaches to programming and theoretical problems.
- Prerequisite
- None listed
- Exclusions
- CSC111H1CSC236H1CSC236H5CSC240H1CSCA67H3CSCB36H3MAT102H5MATA67H3
- Contact hours
- 36 lecture · 12 tutorial
- Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.
What people actually got
Last observed Winter 20263 terms observed
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Per-term figures stay hidden until each term clears five contributors. 3 observations can support one honest number; they cannot support 3.
How well we know this course
2015–2023Pyko’s archive holds 40 documents for CSC165H1, across 8 years between 2015 and 2023.
- 5
- Final exams
- 8
- Midterms
- 5
- Solution sets
- 4
- Assignments
- 8
- Problem sets
- 2
- Lecture notes
- 5
- Tutorial material
- 3
- Handouts
Both a midterm and a final appear in what we hold, so this course has historically been assessed on both rather than on a single end-of-term paper.
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What we don’t have yet
Source ledger
Report an error →| Claim | Source | Captured | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hours | Faculty of Arts & Science | 2026-07-25 | public fact |
| Historical average across 3 terms | Student contributions, consented | 2026-07-25 | user contributed aggregate |
| 40 archived documents, 2015-2023 | Pyko archive | 2026-07-25 | index only |
Page last verified 2026-07-25. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.
What this opens up
5 courses list CSC165H1 as a prerequisiteListing a course here means it names CSC165H1 among its prerequisites — often as one of several ways to satisfy the same requirement, so this is what CSC165H1 makes available, not what it alone guarantees.
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