Bachelor of Science - Computer Science (Including Placement Year) (I101)

The BSc Computer Science course is the most flexible of the courses in computing, allowing students to choose from a wide choice of optional modules and to specialize in areas as diverse as assistive technologies, computer games, artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation, Big Data and robotics. If a student has a good ability to think in a computational way, they'll be perfect for this course.

Students also acquire key skills for computer science in the areas of:

• Algorithm analysis and basic computability • Software engineering • Java language principles and application programming interfaces

The School is a community of scholars leading the way in technological research and development. Today’s computer scientists are creative people who are focused and committed, yet restless and experimental. They are home to many of the world’s top scientists, and their work is driven by creativity and imagination as well as technical excellence. More than two-thirds of their research rated “world-leading” or “internationally excellent” (REF 2014).

Students graduate with the ability to explore further how technology influences people’s lives.

Programming at Essex

Teaching someone to program is about opening a door. In the first year at Essex students will study a module that introduces them to programming using Python. They assess students’ ability to think in a programmatic way in the very first week of term and if they require additional support, they offer classes which will boost students’ skills and confidence with programming.