COMP20007 Design of Algorithms (University of Melbourne): rated 3.0/5 overall, difficulty 5.0/5 (higher is harder), would-recommend 2.0/5 across 40 reviews collected on UniMelb Wall.
COMP20007 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: 算法设计
Type: Undergraduate subject
Subject area: Computer Science
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
Level: Undergraduate Level 2
Handbook year: 2026
AIMS Programmers can choose between several representations of data. These will have different strengths and weaknesses, and each will require its own set of algorithms.
COMP20007 has 40 scored reviews: overall 3.0/5 · usefulness 3.0 · difficulty 5.0 · would-recommend 2.0 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 1 review by UniMelb students on UniMelb Wall (1.7/5 overall); 9 StudentVIP reviews (average 3.0 stars); 30 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 3.1/5).
On Reddit: "Ill give you some actual advice cause if you're going to pray your ass off you might aswell sleep since thats way more productive in my opinion.The memorise pseudocode is a lie. You need to remember how the algorithm works, and in the process you've essentially memorised the gen…"
On Reddit: "No it's definitely possible to do all 3. INFO20003 is a fairly easy subject and SWEN20004 is very project based so has potential to get good marks in it as well. COMP20007 i don't know if you'll have a similar experience, but when I did it this year the week to week workload was…"
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Q: Is COMP20007 hard?
A: Students rate COMP20007's difficulty 5.0/5 on average (higher is harder), which makes it one of the harder courses.
Q: Is COMP20007 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 40 reviews: would-recommend 2.0/5, usefulness 3.0/5, overall 3.0/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches COMP20007, and when is it offered?
A: COMP20007 is taught by the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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