ComputerScienceMasters

Exam Notes and Study Notes from Master's Degree in Computer Science @ITU 2025-2027

1. Semester

Exam Study Plan (Subject to change, overlapping)

• 1. December - 16. December : Algorithm Design
• 17. December - 5. January : Advanced Programming
• 20. December - 20. January : Introduction to Machine Learning
• 17. January - 23. January : Practical Concurrent and Parallel Programming

Algorithm Design

• ECTS: 7.5
• Exam Format: Written, on-premises, 4 hours
• Exam Restrictions: All physical aids allowed. All digital aids strictly disallowed.
• Exam Date: 16. December 2025

Advanced Programming

• ECTS: 7.5
• Exam Format: Written, on-premises, 4 hours
• Exam Restrictions: All online and physical aids allowed. Use of AI strictly disallowed (i.e. remmeber to diable AI summaries on google, co-pilots in code-editor etc.)
• Exam Date: 5. January 2026

Introduction to Machine Learning

• ECTS: 7.5
• Exam Format: Oral w/ external examiner
• Exam Restrictions: No aids. (But bring Jupyter Notebooks and an itinerary paper)
• Exam Date: 20. January 2026
• Grade: 12
• Talked About At Exam: Exam Question 4.4 (Vector Spaces, Basis and how they are used in ML, f.ex. PCA), Neural Network predictions, structure, complexity & training, CNNs, Convolutions and their interpretations

Practical Concurrent and Parallel Programming

• ECTS: 7.5
• Exam Format: Oral w/ external examiner
• Exam Restrictions: 1 A4 paper, nothing else.
• Exam Date: 23. January 2026
• Grade: 12
• Talked About At Exam: Exam Question 6, Testing. Also Lock-Free Data Structures & Linearizability.