Elements of Computing Program

Trent Lesikar

Regardless of their field of study, college students live in the digital information age.

The Elements of Computing Program offers a set of courses intended to help students understand the sophisticated technologies they use everyday and gain the computer skills that employers value. The goals of the program are to:

Provide students with knowledge of computer science that employers find valuable.
Support study in other disciplines requiring computational proficiency.

Elements courses are intellectually stimulating and personally rewarding, and they can supplement any undergraduate program.

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Students must apply for the certificate in order to take upper division Elements of Computing courses.

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View the required courses for the Elements of Computing Certificate Program.

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Participants in this certificate program come from a wide range of majors at UT. These students are interested in computer science and seek to acquire relevant technological skills they can pair with their academic and career pursuits.

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Computer Science is about problem solving. Thus, the qualities of a good computer scientist include:

A passion for finding elegant solutions
An ability to use mathematical analysis and logical rigor to evaluate such solutions
Creativity in modeling complex problems through the use of abstractions
Attention to details and hidden assumptions
An ability to recognize variants of the same problem in different settings, and being able to retarget known efficient solutions to problems in new settings.

If you like to solve puzzles, then computer science is for you!