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by mjac 5630 days ago
In the first year all of us do Computer Science (2 papers), Mathematics (1 paper), and a science subject (1 paper, I did Physics). It is predominantly theoretical (something I found hard to cope with):

1st year: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/0809/part1a-cst.html

2nd year: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/0910/part1b.html

3rd year: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1011/part2.html

Although I think there is far too much content to learn thoroughly in three years, it does provide a broad understanding of what there is to know. Does Oxford have online course material, I'd be interested to take a look? I expect the universities overlap a lot but there might be some worthwhile additions.

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Perhaps "theoretical" is the wrong word, what I meant is that Oxford courses tend to take a more formal & mathematical approach to topics than other universities.
As someone who studied computer science at Cambridge, I can assure you that Cambridge teaches at a very formal and mathematical level.