COMP10002 Foundations of Algorithms (University of Melbourne): rated 3.5/5 overall, difficulty 3.3/5 (higher is harder), would-recommend 0.3/5 across 58 reviews collected on UniMelb Wall.
COMP10002 is a University of Melbourne course taught by the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology in Computer Science. This page brings together its handbook details and what UniMelb students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 算法基础
Type: Undergraduate subject
Subject area: Computer Science
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
Level: Undergraduate Level 1
Handbook year: 2026
AIMS In many projects, it is important for programmers to have fine control over low-level details of program execution, and to be able to assess the cost of a design decision on likely overall program performance. This subject introduces students to a system programming language that gives progr.
COMP10002 has 58 scored reviews: overall 3.5/5 · usefulness 3.6 · difficulty 3.3 · would-recommend 0.3 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 4 reviews by UniMelb students on UniMelb Wall (2.1/5 overall); the Actuarial Students' Society Subject Review 2025 course guide; 23 StudentVIP reviews (average 3.8 stars); 30 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 3.4/5).
Actuarial Students' Society Subject Review 2025: "The subject is conceptually demanding and time consuming. Unlike Foundations of Computing, the subject did not focus much on introductory computing, such as understanding how for or while loops work. Rather, the focus of the subject is on algorithms, optimising time complexity, and applying them in…"
On Reddit: "Had this done to us for COMP10002 FoA, there were aiming for an average of about 65% overall, the average of the exam was expected to be 13/30 and we were explicitly told that most of us will not finish the exam and that most of us will not be able to answer some of the question…"
On Reddit: "Hi, this year in early January I did the MIT 6.00.1x Intro to computer science course, which is available on the mit open courseware site or EDx. It's taught in python and overall took me about 1.5 months to finish, and I started from 0 programming knowledge. However, I did the …"
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Q: Is COMP10002 hard?
A: Students rate COMP10002's difficulty 3.3/5 on average (higher is harder), which makes it moderately difficult.
Q: Is COMP10002 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 58 reviews: would-recommend 0.3/5, usefulness 3.6/5, overall 3.5/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches COMP10002, and when is it offered?
A: COMP10002 is taught by the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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