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Achieve solid A1 with emerging A2 skills: introduce yourself and handle simple daily interactions in the present; form basic past-tense statements; read short texts; and sustain elementary conversations with accurate pronunciation, agreement, and core vocabulary.
12 prereqs · Spanish Pronunciation, Alphabet, and Basic Sounds, Greetings, Introductions, and Essential Courtesy Phrases…
Design, analyze, and optimize simple pipelined processors and memory hierarchies; evaluate ISA and microarchitectural choices using quantitative performance metrics (CPI, AMAT, speedup, roofline-style reasoning); and explain how compilers and OS interact with the architecture.
7 prereqs · Foundations: Digital Logic and Machine Organization Review, Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)…
Design, reason about, and implement simple distributed systems components: remote procedure calls, replicated state machines with chosen consistency, basic consensus, and fault-tolerant patterns; explain trade-offs via CAP/PACELC and failure models.
6 prereqs · Foundations: Failure Models, Clocks, and Happens-Before, Remote Procedure Call (RPC) and Communication…
Design, implement, and reason about a simple full-stack web application (browser client + REST backend + persistent store) that correctly uses HTTP methods/status codes/headers, maintains session or token-based auth, and articulates basic scalability bottlenecks and mitigations (caching, statelessness, load distribution).
7 prereqs · Web and HTTP Fundamentals, Client-Server Architecture and Separation of Concerns…
Independently perform multi-method analyses (formal, iconographic, contextual) of unfamiliar artworks; accurately place representative works and styles from prehistory to the present in broad chronological, cultural, and geographic frameworks (Western and global); and demonstrate practical museum literacy including close looking, label reading, and critical reflection on display practices.
14 prereqs · Foundations of Art History: Looking, Vocabulary, and Approaches, Formal Elements of Art…
Design threat models for software systems; correctly apply core crypto primitives and authn/authz mechanisms; identify and mitigate common web/network attacks; and write and review code for basic security properties.
5 prereqs · Security Foundations and Threat Modeling, Cryptographic Primitives at a Systems Level…
Explain and implement core OS abstractions; reason about concurrency, memory management, and storage; analyze simple protection/security mechanisms; complete projects typical of a CS 111-style course.
10 prereqs · Systems Programming Foundations Review, Introduction to Operating Systems and Computer Systems Overview…
Explain and analyze the end-to-end operation of the Internet protocol stack; implement or simulate key mechanisms (e.g., reliable transport, basic routing); solve problems on addressing, forwarding, congestion, and protocol interactions at the level of a rigorous undergrad networks course.
8 prereqs · Internet Architecture and Layered Stack, Application Layer: HTTP, DNS, and Network Applications…
Independently and in a small team, elicit and document requirements, produce modular designs with clear ADT/interfaces, implement with disciplined VCS workflows, apply appropriate testing (unit/integration/system), and deliver maintainable software following professional SE practices.
7 prereqs · Software Process Models and Lifecycle Overview, Requirements Engineering…
Design, implement, and reason about programs and small language features across paradigms; formally describe syntax/semantics and typing; explain scoping, evaluation, and modularity trade-offs; and complete typical CS 131-style homework and exams.
7 prereqs · Foundations: Syntax, Grammars, and Basic Semantics, Names, Binding, Scope, and Environments…
Design normalized relational schemas from requirements/ER models; write correct and efficient SQL (including advanced queries, constraints, views); explain and analyze core DBMS internals (file organizations, B+-tree/hash indexes, join algorithms and basic cost-based processing); and reason about ACID transactions, serializability, locking/optimistic concurrency, logging, and recovery.
11 prereqs · Introduction to Database Management Systems, The Relational Model…
Implement and analyze core AI algorithms (search, minimax/alpha-beta, logical inference, basic planning) and explain how they underpin simple NLP and vision applications.
10 prereqs · Foundations: Graphs, Complexity, and Discrete Structures Review, Uninformed Search…
Implement and explain a basic real-time rasterized 3D renderer: apply hierarchical transforms and camera models, process meshes through the graphics pipeline, compute lighting/shading and texture mapping, and reason about performance and correctness of real-time techniques.
7 prereqs · Mathematical Foundations for Graphics, Transforms, Viewing, and Cameras…
Independently design, correctly implement (in pseudocode), prove correctness of, and asymptotically analyze algorithms using the major paradigms; reduce problems to establish NP-completeness; and solve representative problems at the level of a standard CS 180 final exam or Kleinberg–Tardos chapters 1–6 + 8.
7 prereqs · Asymptotic Analysis and Complexity Measures, Algorithm Correctness Basics…
Independently design and convert among DFAs/NFAs/regexes, CFGs/PDAs, and TMs; prove (non)regularity and (non)context-freeness via pumping lemmas and constructions; prove decidability/undecidability via reductions and diagonalization; classify languages as regular/CFL/decidable/recognizable/undecidable and explain the Church-Turing thesis.
11 prereqs · Formal Languages, Strings, and Proof Habits, Deterministic Finite Automata and Regular Languages…
Implement (or fully specify and walk through) a multi-pass compiler frontend + simple backend for a small imperative language, producing correct assembly or bytecode and applying basic optimizations.
8 prereqs · Programming Language Foundations and Formal Grammars, Lexical Analysis (Scanning)…
Independently train, validate, and evaluate supervised models (linear/logistic regression and simple neural nets); diagnose overfitting; apply regularization and proper data splitting; explain core concepts mathematically and empirically.
5 prereqs · Math and Programming Refreshers for ML, Supervised Learning Problem Setup…