COM SCI 280D · CS 280DAlgorithms
Computer Science · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Additional requisites for each offering announced in advance by department. Selections from design, analysis, optimization, and implementation of algorithms; computational complexity and general theory of algorithms; algorithms for particular application areas. Subtitles of some current sections: Principles of Design and Analysis (280A); Distributed Algorithms (280D); Graphs and Networks (280G). May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor and topic change.
Letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: course 180.
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COM SCI 280D
- COM SCI 180Introduction to Algorithms and Complexity
- COM SCI 32Introduction to Computer Science II
- COM SCI 31Introduction to Computer Science I
- MATH 61Introduction to Discrete Structures
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
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