Quantum computing is an exciting emergent field at the interface of computer science, engineering, mathematics, and physics. While the ideas behind quantum computing originated almost 30 years ago, the field has gone through a period of rapid development in recent years. In this series of academic training lectures, Heather Gray - an experimental particle physicist working on the ATLAS experiment - will provide an introduction to the basic concepts of quantum computation, discuss current and future hardware implementations and introduce the types of algorithms that are used for quantum computation. Potential applications to high-energy physics will also be discussed.