Computer & Data Science University Taster Lecture

Free Virtual Taster lecture, designed for year 11 and 12 students who are unsure of what to study at university.

How does your Sat Nav know which way to go?

Every time your phone reroutes you around traffic, an algorithm is solving a problem in real time. This session unravels the secrets of data abstraction with graphs and the graph traversal techniques that underpin many modern computational tools, before dissecting a specific algorithm used to solve real-world navigation challenges.Key questions we will explore:

● How do we represent real-world networks, like road maps, as data?

● What algorithm actually finds the shortest route?

Join us to find out if Computer and data science are the right subjects for you to study at university.