University of Toronto Mississauga
CSC236H5
Introduction to the Theory of Computation
What was the average?
C+
2.3 GPA across 4 observed terms. Most recent: Fall 2021.
How is it graded?
50% final
From the Fall 2026 syllabus. 3 graded components.
How confident is this?
High
A small number of terms, so read it as a range. The most recent observation is several years old.
From the calendar
Official source · University of Toronto MississaugaThis course covers mathematical induction, correctness proofs for iterative and recursive algorithms, recurrence equations, and an introduction to automata and formal languages.
- Prerequisite
- (60% or higher in CSC111H5)or((60% or higher inCSC148H5) and (60% or higher in MAT102H5))
- Exclusions
- CSC236H1CSC240H1CSCB36H3
- Contact hours
- 24 lecture · 12 tutorial
- Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.
What people actually got
Last observed Fall 20214 terms 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.
Per-term figures stay hidden until each term clears five contributors. 4 observations can support one honest number; they cannot support 4.
Where the marks come from
Fall 2026 syllabus50% of the grade is decided in the final alone. Steady coursework cannot carry this course on its own.
Extracted from a published Fall 2026 syllabus — verified against the university's own document. Components that could not be labelled are shown unresolved rather than folded into a neighbouring category.
- must score >= 40% on the final_exam to pass
How well we know this course
2015–2025Pyko’s archive holds 9 documents for CSC236H5, across 5 years between 2015 and 2025.
- 2
- Final exams
- 1
- Midterms
- 1
- Assignments
- 5
- Syllabi
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 | University of Toronto Mississauga | 2026-07-25 | public fact |
| Historical average across 4 terms | Student contributions, consented | 2026-07-25 | user contributed aggregate |
| 9 archived documents, 2015-2025 | Pyko archive | 2026-07-25 | index only |
| Grading structure, description and credit weight from the official Fall 2026 syllabus (instructor: M. Mahmoud) | Official Fall 2026 course syllabus (University of Toronto Mississauga) | 2026-09-05 | official syllabus |
Page last verified 2026-09-05. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.
What this opens up
11 courses list CSC236H5 as a prerequisiteThe other 2 have no page yet. Listing a course here means it names CSC236H5 among its prerequisites — often as one of several ways to satisfy the same requirement, so this is what CSC236H5 makes available, not what it alone guarantees.
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