# Computer Science (COMSC) courses

Evergreen Valley College · 2025-2026 Catalog · 10 courses

Source: https://catalog.evc.edu/course-descriptions-information/course-descriptions/comsc/

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Summer 2026.

### COMSC 020 — Introduction to Programming Concepts and Methodologies

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 3
- **C-ID:** COMP 112
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/evergreen-valley-college/schedule/summer-2026/comsc.md)
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: None District GE: None Recommended: Basic knowledge of computer usage and keyboarding skills
- Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: 2
- Degree Applicable: AA/AS

This course is an introduction to basic computer programming concepts using both the procedural and an object-oriented paradigm. It is intended for non-computer science majors, and for students interested in COMSC 075 who would like a more gradual entry into computing fundamentals. Topics include hands-on practice with software engineering tools, simple programs, variables, control structures, functions, input/output, and introduction to abstraction. Specifications, adherence to style guidelines, and the importance of testing to ensure that programs are usable, robust, and modifiable, will be addressed throughout the course.

### COMSC 028 — Foundations of Data Science

- **Units:** 4
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3, Lab Hours: 3
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 2 sections (/c/evergreen-valley-college/schedule/summer-2026/comsc.md)
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: None District GE: None Recommended: A working knowledge of Precalculus Algebra, equivalent to that covered in MATH 021 or MATH 025. Previous knowledge of computer programming (such as that covered in COMSC 020) is highly recommended.
- Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None
- Degree Applicable: AA/AS

This course introduces students to the field of Data Science through computational and inferential thinking. Given data arising from some real-world problem, students will learn the fundamental skills in computer programming and statistical inference needed to analyze that data so as to understand and solve that problem. The course also addresses social issues surrounding data analysis, such as privacy, security, and design.

### COMSC 041 — Programming Concepts and Methodology I

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 3
- **Prerequisite:** MATH 021 and MATH 022, or MATH 025 all with C or better
- **C-ID:** COMP 122; ENGR 120
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/evergreen-valley-college/schedule/summer-2026/comsc.md)
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: None District GE: None Recommended: COMSC 020
- Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None
- Degree Applicable: AA/AS

This course is an introduction to computer science using the C++ programming language. Students will write computer programs that include control structures, iteration, methods and argument passing, and classes. Problem solving, documentation, programming style, and program design and development are addressed throughout the course.

### COMSC 042 — Programming Concepts and Methodology II

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 3
- **Prerequisite:** COMSC 041 with C or better
- **C-ID:** COMP 132
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: None District GE: None
- Advisory Level: Read:3 Write: 3 Math: None
- Degree Applicable: AA/AS

In this course, students will apply software engineering techniques to the design and development of large programming projects using C++. It includes coverage of data abstraction and structures, as well as associated algorithms, for linear lists, stacks, queues, trees, and other linked structures, arrays, strings, and hash tables. Searching and sorting algorithms are also covered.

### COMSC 075 — Computer Science I: Introduction to Program Structures

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 3
- **Prerequisite:** MATH 021 and MATH 022, or MATH 025 all with C or better or placement by multiple measures
- **C-ID:** COMP 122
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 2 sections (/c/evergreen-valley-college/schedule/summer-2026/comsc.md)
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: None District GE: None Recommended: COMSC 020
- Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None
- Degree Applicable: AA/AS

This course is an introduction to computer science using an object-oriented programming language. Students will write computer programs that include control structures, iteration, methods and argument passing, and classes. Problem solving, documentation, programming style, and program design and development are addressed throughout the course.

### COMSC 076 — Computer Science II: Introduction to Data Structures

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 3
- **Prerequisite:** COMSC 075 with C or better
- **C-ID:** COMP 132
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 2 sections (/c/evergreen-valley-college/schedule/summer-2026/comsc.md)
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: None District GE: None
- Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None
- Degree Applicable: AA/AS

This course covers data abstraction and structures as well as associated algorithms for linear lists, stacks, queues, trees, and other linked structures, arrays, strings, and hash tables. Software engineering techniques are applied to the design and development of large programming projects in an object-oriented environment. Searching and sorting algorithms are also covered.

### COMSC 077 — Introduction to Computer Systems

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 3
- **Prerequisite:** COMSC 041 or COMSC 075 with C or better
- **C-ID:** COMP 142
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: None District GE: None
- Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None
- Degree Applicable: AA/AS

This course covers the internal organization and operation of digital computers at the assembly language level. Topics include the mapping of high-level language constructs into sequences of machine-level instructions, assembly language and assemblers, linkers and loaders, internal data representations and manipulations, numerical computation, input/output (I/O) and interrupts, functions calls and argument passing, and the basic elements of computer logic design.

### COMSC 078 — Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

- **Units:** 4
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3, Lab Hours: 3
- **Prerequisite:** MATH 066 or MATH 071 with C or better
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** not on the Summer 2026 schedule
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: None District GE: None Corequisite: MATH 066 or MATH 071; Recommended: Programming experience equivalent to that gained from completing COMSC 020 or COMSC 075 or an Advanced Placement Computer Science Course A, with a score of 3 or higher is strongly recommended
- Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: None
- Degree Applicable: AA/AS

This course covers the elements of the functional, object-oriented, and declarative programming paradigms. Topics include procedural abstraction; control abstraction using recursion, higher order functions, generators, and streams; data abstraction using interfaces, objects, classes, and generic operators; and language abstraction using interpreters and macros. Students will complete several significant programming projects using Python. The central idea in this course is the management of program complexity through abstraction.

### COMSC 079C — Programming in C

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 3
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/evergreen-valley-college/schedule/summer-2026/comsc.md)
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: None District GE: None Recommended: Programming skills and knowledge comparable to those obtained in the Python or Java programming languages
- Advisory Level: Read: 3 Write: 3 Math: 4
- Degree Applicable: AS

This course covers the C programming language for students who already know how to program. It includes computation, input and output, flow of control, functions, arrays, strings, pointers, linked structures, use of dynamic storage, and implementation of abstract data types. The course concludes with coverage of object-oriented programming in C++.

### COMSC 080 — Discrete Structures

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** Lecture Hours: 3
- **Prerequisite:** COMSC 041 or COMSC 075 with C or better
- **C-ID:** COMP 152
- **Transfers to:** CSU, UC
- **Offered:** Summer 2026, 1 section (/c/evergreen-valley-college/schedule/summer-2026/comsc.md)
- Repeatable: No
- Grading: L
- Cal-GETC: 2 District GE: 2 Recommended: Successful completion of MATH 025 or equivalency
- Advisory Level: Read 4 Write: 4 Math: 5
- Degree Applicable: AA/AS

This course is an introduction to the discrete structures used in computer science with an emphasis on their applications. Topics include basic logic; predicates and quantifiers; proof techniques; sets, functions, and relations; induction and recursion; counting techniques and discrete probability; and graphs and trees.