CS 438
- Faculty
- Mathematics
- Offered
- Fall, Winter, Spring
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1990–91
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1986–87 to 1990–91; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Computer Applications in Business: Data Bases A user-oriented approach to the management of large collections of data. Methods used for the storage, selection and presentation of data. Common data base management systems. CS 438 cannot be counted for credit toward a BMath Honours Computer Science Degree. Course Descriptions 16:103 Mathematics: Computer Science
As printed in the 1986–87 to 1990–91 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: CS 234 or 330, and third-year standing
Antireq: CS 448
Discussed on r/uwaterloo
2 posts and comments in 2 threads mention CS 438, April 2015 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Winter 2018
How to study for CS 146 midterm? 10 points, 7 comments
u/123Four5Six7: “Study 1/3 of the CS 438 exam”
Winter 2015
what does this mean?: "Not open to general Mathematics students": 5 points, 11 comments
“I'm looking through upper year math courses and some of them say that. Also, if I really wanted to take the course, is there an alternative course that I can take, or can I get an override somehow?”
[deleted]: “They pretty much all say that. I don't even know who these "General Mathematics" students are, but apparently they exist. Has anyone ever met a General Mathematics student? I think it's like... …”
u/Huex3: “… of the ten courses like: CO227, CS200, CS230, CS234, CS245, CS246, CS330, CS338, CS430, CS438. …”
Check it elsewhere
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1986–87 to 1990–91, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1986–87 to 1990–91 5 calendars
Computer Applications in Business: Data Bases A user-oriented approach to the management of large collections of data. Methods used for the storage, selection and presentation of data. Common data base management systems.
CS 438 cannot be counted for credit toward a BMath Honours Computer Science Degree.
Course Descriptions 16:103 Mathematics: Computer Science
Prereq: CS 234 or 330, and third-year standing
Antireq: CS 448
Offered Fall, Winter, Spring · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit