COMP6991 Solving Modern Programming Problems with Rust (UNSW Sydney): rated 3.8/5 overall across 18 reviews collected on UNSW Wall.
COMP6991 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: 用Rust解决现代编程问题
Type: Undergraduate course
Credit points: 6
Subject area: School of Computer Science and Engineering
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
Level: Postgraduate Level 6
Handbook year: 2026
This course aims to provide commentary and critique on the practice of programming, and the tooling used to program (primarily programming languages themselves). A variety of programming concepts across many programming languages are examined, including: syntax, typing, polymorphism, documentation, testing, meta-programming, concurrency, parallelism, safety, and more.
COMP6991 has 18 scored reviews: overall 3.8/5 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 18 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 3.8/5).
On Reddit: "Bad. Don't do it. Just do the regular CS stream and pick whatever electives you like. Some popular and good courses are: - COMP3231 OS - COMP2041 Bash and Shell - COMP6068 Frontend - COMP9417 Machine Learning (only good AI course in the uni) Some good but hard courses are: - COM…"
On Reddit: "\*\*hot take\*\* I've done both, imo 3231 was pretty overhyped the assignments he uses have been recycled since 2004 and so have the slides he uses. He also is one the most boring lecturers to listen to, even Ashesh is better. He speech style is just monotone with no enunciation…"
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Q: Is COMP6991 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 18 reviews: overall 3.8/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches COMP6991, and when is it offered?
A: COMP6991 is taught by the Faculty of Engineering. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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