COMP90020 Distributed Algorithms (University of Melbourne): rated 3.5/5 overall across 3 reviews collected on UniMelb Wall.
COMP90020 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: 分布式算法
Type: Graduate coursework subject
Subject area: Computer Science
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
Level: Graduate coursework Level 9
Handbook year: 2026
AIMS The Internet, World Wide Web, bank networks, mobile phone networks and many others are examples for Distributed Systems. Distributed Systems rely on a key set of algorithms and data structures to run efficiently and effectively.
COMP90020 has 3 scored reviews: overall 3.5/5 · usefulness 4.5 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 2 StudentVIP reviews (average 4.5 stars); 1 Reddit comment that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 1.4/5).
On Reddit: "I did it in 2014 -- very bad. The material is highly theoretical, and the slides were pretty much extracted from the textbook verbatim. The project involves creating a game/application that uses one of the learnt distributed algorithm."
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Q: Is COMP90020 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 3 reviews: usefulness 4.5/5, overall 3.5/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches COMP90020, and when is it offered?
A: COMP90020 is taught by the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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