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Bringing university to life
The Faculty of Computing runs a number of fun and informative Taster Sessions for Schools and Colleges throughout the year at a time convenient to the staff and students of your institution. These are designed to give young people an idea of what University life can be like at London Metropolitan's Faculty of Computing and a taste of our five subject areas - Communications Technology, Applied Computing, Computer Science, Multimedia and Mathematics.
Call us on 020 7133 4680 or email us on computing@londonmet.ac.uk and we can set up a session for your students tailored to their educational needs and interests.
Also see the schedule and location of University open events
Workshops are available in all of our subject areas: Communications Technology, Applied Computing and Computer Science, Multimedia and Mathematics
 The Making of a PC
The aim of this workshop is to get the students familiar with the PC hardware. They will be provided with a box containing loose recycled PC components and with the aid of the mother board manual and instructions on what each card does, assemble a PC. They will learn about the boot process and the troubleshooting facilities provided by the PC hardware. They will explore the Bios and learn how to change options and what they do. Finally they will install a simple OS (DOS) and examine internal and external commands.
Building and Testing a simple Electronics Board
The purpose of this short workshop is to build an electronic circuit that causes two small lights (called: LEDs: Light Emitting Diodes) to alternately flash. There are many different techniques that can be used to achieve this effect. The one students build in the Taster is called an “Astable Multivibrator” or a simpler name: a “Flip Flop”. It is capable of alternately flashing two LEDs.
The Building of a Radio Transmitter
The workshop is designed to provide the students with an opportunity to handle a number of different electronics components and use them to build a small product. The product is a Mini Radio Transmitter. Once the product is built, it enables students to listen to their voice through a normal FM radio. The concept of radio transmitter and receiver is explained to all students via a very easy to understand presentation. Students find this workshop fun and informative. Each group is given their product to take home.
Related degree titles offered in the Faculty of Computing:
BSc Computer Networking, BEng Computer Systems Engineering, BEng Telecommunications and Networks Engineering, BEng Electronic and Communications Engineering, MEng Network Management and Security
Java Population Modelling
Students will learn the basic concepts of object-oriented programming using an integrated development environment called BlueJ. They will edit, compile and run a Java program to demonstrate the effects of changing the attributes of animals in a predator-prey simulation.
 Visual Basic
The aim of the workshop is to familiarise students with the basics of using a visual programming environment and tools for developing simple applications. The workshop is intended as a taster session showcasing some of the work undertaken by our students and to provide participants some hands-on programming activities using Visual Basic.
Project Management
Project management is for scheduling a series of activities in helping students plan there time and activities effectively. The students work on a simple exercise planning having a meal before seeing a film. The workshop aids students with joint project work, aiming for course work deadlines and preparation/revision for exams.
Computer Forensics 
Computer forensics is an emerging discipline, which combines elements of law and computer science to collect and analyse data from computer systems, networks, and storage devices in a way that is admissible as evidence in a court of law. This workshop provides students with an insight into Computer Forensic analyst, resolving problems and preserving digital evidence.
Management Support Systems
Management Support Systems is a workshop where students extract data from a database using Oracle.
Related degree titles offered in the Faculty of Computing: FDSc Computing and Business Information Technology, BSc Business Information Technology, BSc Computer Forensics and IT Security, BSc Computing, BSc Computer Science
Second Life 3D Virtual Environment
The aim of this workshop is to introduce students to Virtual Worlds and to show them, in an enjoyable way, some of the potential of 3D worlds.  Students will familiarise themselves with the interface and then follow a series of clues to acquire new clothes and accessories and modify their avatar. Along their journey students can see some of our work in Second Life and interact with it, explore the programming environment of Second Life and experiment with building objects of their own. They can also use Second Life to find information about our courses and life at London Metropolitan University.
Following the taster session, students can register their own avatar and download the free viewer software at home and continue to use the Second Life environment.
Flash
Flash is the industry standard authoring tool for developing rich media content, animated games, banner adverts, websites, and may other online and offline applications. The flash taster will give students a brief insight into the exciting world of multimedia development and give them an opportunity for a hands-on experience developing a simple multimedia application.
Computer Animation
 This workshop introduces students to some of the fundamentals of Computer Animation via hands on experience with easy-to-use 2D animation industry software Toon Boom. This is used in such animation classics as Rug Rats and Family Guy (amongst others). Students will also see some of the 2D, 3D and Stop motion work of past students, and get a feel of the sort of work that animators do and possibly getting them thinking about a future in animation as a result.
2D Character Design
2D Character Design introductory workshop teaches students how to re-create some of their favourite cartoon characters. Students will be taught the skills of drawing in vector graphics using Adobe Illustrator software. Creating, manipulating and joining simple graphical elements to achieve more sophisticated results, students will be able to output their character designs and take them home on the day.
Related degree titles offered in the Faculty of Computing: BSc Computer Animation,
BSc Computer Games Programming, BSc Computer Games Modelling and Design
The Mathematics of Juggling
This taster session is on the Mathematics behind Juggling and how new patterns of juggling could have only been discovered with the aid of mathematics. The aim of this session is to introduce students to a rigorous mathematical approach to juggling. It meets all the basic ideas involved in mathematical practice: simplification and specification of the problem, basic consequences of the axioms, notation, examples and theorems, as well as generalisations, alternative approaches and computer simulations.
The session ends with students experimenting with juggling patterns using 3 and 4 tennis balls.
Paper, Stone, Scissors; Advanced Interactive Excel
This taster session will demonstrate some of the more advanced features of Excel and in the process design an interactive game called "Paper, Stone, Scissors"
Maple Algebraic Graphic Solutions
The Computer Algebra taster session is a hand’s on practical that introduces students to the computer algebra package Maple. Students discover the ease with which Maple solves algebraic problems and they are able to plot three dimensional graphs and rotate them into various orientations.
Related degree titles offered in the Faculty of Computing:
BSc Mathematics, BSc Mathematics and Computer Science, BSc Mathematics and Statistics, BSc Financial Mathematics, BSc Mathematical Sciences
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