The Computer Science Tripos Part II (General) is a one-year non-specialist course intended for third-year students. In the past it has attracted transfers from Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Engineering, and has also provided a third-year option for students in Medicine. It is not available to those who have read Part IB Computer Science.
It is a limited entry course and there is a mandatory two-week programming course in the last fortnight of July in the previous Long Vacation. To be a candidate for honours a student must have obtained honours in year 2 in the subject he or she is coming from.
The courses provided cover a wide range of Computer Science topics and aim to give as broad and coherent a coverage of the subject as is possible within a single year. The lecture and examination structure provides students with a significant amount of flexibility in the selection of their courses. This makes it possible for students to select advanced courses in areas closely related to their previous studies, while still gaining a reasonable foundation in areas that they have not previously encountered.
Some courses are indicated as prerequisite for later ones. Where a course is shown as a prerequisite for a Diploma course this should be regarded as being a prerequisite for the Part II (General) course, too.
The syllabus information given here is for guidance only and should not be considered definitive. Current timetables can be found at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/UoCCL/teaching/lectlist/LectList.html