COMP1730: Programming for Scientists

"The Python ballpit"

If you’re studying comp-sci, then expect to be a minority. The students taking this course range from engineers to scientists to economists. Therefore the course content is very broad due to the variety of students and it’s quite bland (for the lack of a better word). The learning curve is logarithmic, so getting through assignments 1 and 2 is fine but assignment 3 was a wild ride (and not to mention it was group work). If you are a comp-sci student, the course is considerably easier than COMP1100 so if you’re already familar with python, you should be able to pass the course. The tutors were quite approachable as well which was a bonus, but this advice should be taken with a pinch of salt as I took it in 2018 with Patrik Hasslum is as the lecturer and convenor.

This course is one of the prerequistes for ENGN2219, which highly assumes you’ve remembered Python. So if you’re studying engineering and computer science, doing this course helps a bit more than doing COMP1100 (which is the alternative prerequiste course).