Faculty of Arts & Science · St. George
CSC196H1
Great Ideas in Computing
What was the average?
B
3 GPA across 1 observed term. Most recent: Fall 2021.
How is it graded?
Not yet verified
No syllabus we can lawfully use has been verified for this course.
How confident is this?
Low
A small number of terms, so read it as a range. The most recent observation is several years old.
From the calendar
Official source · Faculty of Arts & ScienceWe will pursue the general (and very debatable) theme of GREAT IDEAS in COMPUTING (including some surprising algorithms). The ambitious goal is to try to identify some of the great ideas that have significantly influenced the field and have helped to make computing so pervasive. We will concentrate on mathematical, algorithmic and software ideas with the understanding that the importance and usefulness of these ideas depends upon (and often parallels) the remarkable ideas and progress in computing and communications hardware. As we will see, many of the great ideas were against the "prevailing opinion". The list of topics we shall discuss will depend to some degree on the background and interests of the class. Please note that not all CSC first-year seminars will be offered in a given year; please check the Timetable for current offerings. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
- Prerequisite
- None listed
- Contact hours
- 36 lecture
- Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.
What people actually got
Last observed Fall 20211 term observed
This is a student-contributed aggregate, not an official University of Toronto record. It is also not a measure of how hard the course is — a course average moves with who enrols in it, not only with the material.
The newest observation is from Fall 2021. Instructors, weighting and exam format may all have changed since — treat this as history, not a forecast.
This rests on 1 reported term. It is shown because hiding it would not make it less true, but one or two results are a datapoint, not a distribution — a single unusual cohort moves this number a long way.
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 1 term | Student contributions, consented | 2026-07-25 | user contributed aggregate |
Page last verified 2026-07-25. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.
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