The majority of modern professions involve extensive use of computers to create, record and store information, and control machinery. Embedding of information technology is only likely to increase, and it is predicted that many future jobs currently performed by humans will be done much more efficiently and safely by robots / artificial intelligence. In this future, wouldn’t you want to be the person programming this technology? At the moment your science experience is probably mostly theoretical problem solving, taking notes and performing lab experiments. However, professional scientists, engineers, financial analysts – basically anyone who uses physics and mathematics in their job – will spend most of their time on data flow, data processing and information presentation. The BPhO Computational Challenge is a new course which will incentivize you to learn skills such as spreadsheets and computer programming that you will find very useful at University and beyond. The examples and contexts will also help you revise A-Level Physics and Mathematics.
AS and A-Level Physics OCR A