The photos below show Simon playing with Breadth-first search and Dijkstra’s algorithms to find the most efficient path from S to E on a set of graphs. The two more complex graphs are weighed and undirected. To make it more fun, I suggest we pretend we travel from, say, Stockholm to Eindhoven and name all the intermediate stops as well, depending on their first letters. And the weights become ticket prices. Just to make it clear, it was I who needed to add this fun bit with the pretend play, Simon was perfectly happy with the abstract graphs (although he did enjoy my company doing this and my cranking up a joke every now and then regarding taking a detour to Eindhoven via South Africa).
Geeks out of the box 