COMP1730 Programming for Scientists (Australian National University): rated 2.4/5 overall across 12 reviews collected on ANU Wall.
COMP1730 is a Australian National University course taught by the ANU College of Systems and Society in Computer Science. This page brings together its handbook details and what ANU students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 科学家编程
Type: Undergraduate course
Credit points: 6
Subject area: Computer Science
Faculty: ANU College of Systems and Society
Level: Undergraduate Level 1
Handbook year: 2026
This course teaches introductory programming, fundamental programming language and computer science concepts, and computational problem solving illustrated with applications common in science and engineering, such as data analysis, visualisation, and image processing. We will take a different approach, including prompting and working with GenAI, with emphasis on testing, debugging and problem decomposition, and using GenAI to help understand code.
COMP1730 has 12 scored reviews: overall 2.4/5 · usefulness 1.0 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 1 StudentVIP review (average 1.0 stars); 11 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 2.5/5).
On Reddit: "1730 was never designed for compsci students, it was meant for students from other fields to learn how to use python for data processing, that's why it feels utterly useless for compsci. As for why it is recommended to compsci students, now that is something we can complain abou…"
On Reddit: "To reinforce this, I’m a comp major who’s partner (physics major) went through COMP1730 and there was no content in it that wasn’t covered in COMP1100/1130, apart from the explicit python stuff and some random stuff from adjacent fields like stats. But for the first point you’d …"
The course panel on ANU Wall shows every review and discussion in full.
Q: Is COMP1730 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 12 reviews: usefulness 1.0/5, overall 2.4/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches COMP1730, and when is it offered?
A: COMP1730 is taught by the ANU College of Systems and Society. Check the official handbook for the current year.
ANU Wall is an independent student community and is not affiliated with Australian National University.