COMP3151 Foundations of Concurrency (UNSW Sydney): rated 2.5/5 overall across 2 reviews collected on UNSW Wall.
COMP3151 is a UNSW Sydney course taught by the Faculty of Engineering in School of Computer Science and Engineering. This page brings together its handbook details and what UNSW students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 并发基础
Type: Undergraduate course
Credit points: 6
Subject area: School of Computer Science and Engineering
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
Level: Undergraduate Level 3
Handbook year: 2026
Concurrency = processes + communication. Communication via shared variables vs message passing.
COMP3151 has 2 scored reviews: overall 2.5/5 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 2 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 2.5/5).
On Reddit: "COMP3331 is a decent course - lecturing pretty dry but the content is very interesting! I highly recommend COMP3141 in T2 - it comes from a theoretical approach, but gives you some extremely good practical foundation in terms of type safety and how to use it to save yourself fro…"
On Reddit: "Definitely not a WAM booster. I would consider it an important course in general though - slightly less important as operating systems / algorithms, more important than graphics / databases / networks / human computer interaction (you do these if you've sign a grad offer already…"
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Q: Is COMP3151 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 2 reviews: overall 2.5/5. Only a few reviews so far, so treat this as a rough guide.
Q: Which faculty teaches COMP3151, and when is it offered?
A: COMP3151 is taught by the Faculty of Engineering. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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