It's Thursday of week 1 of the second semester of our academic year and I've just given my first lecture of a new module that covers quantum algorithms.  I've been teaching here for more than 20 years, but it's a rare thing to be teaching a new module, to have the fun (and fear) of designing and writing and then delivering a set of material.  I must say, it was with a little trepadation that I prepared for the first lecture today.  I knew there would be students of various different academic bac