COMP3411 Artificial Intelligence (UNSW Sydney): rated 2.9/5 overall across 30 reviews collected on UNSW Wall.
COMP3411 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: 人工智能
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
COMP3411 is an introductory course on Artificial Intelligence covering fundamental topics such as autonomous agents, knowledge representation, problem solving, neural networks, reinforcement learning, optimisation, reasoning under uncertainty, vision and language processing. The course is taught with an orientation towards machine learning and with a view to practical applications of Artificial Intelligence using Python.
COMP3411 has 30 scored reviews: overall 2.9/5 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 30 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 2.9/5).
On Reddit: "COMP3411 is interesting and it's a pre-requisite if you want to go do machine learning or computer vision courses, which are both pretty popular. You'll learn about fundamental algorithms that'll set you up on understanding how machine learning and artificial intelligence works …"
On Reddit: "COMP3211 (Computer Architecture): While not particularly hard, is a lot of work. (Assumes good familiarity with digital logic and VHDL.) COMP3231 (Operating Systems): Assignments can be hard since you have to start with an existing codebase that's significantly larger and more c…"
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Q: Is COMP3411 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 30 reviews: overall 2.9/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches COMP3411, and when is it offered?
A: COMP3411 is taught by the Faculty of Engineering. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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