Learning objectives
Knowledge and understanding: the student will acquire basic skills needed to fruitfully use a computer to develop simple algorithms to the solution of problems of interest in chemistry.
Applying knowledge and understanding: the students will acquire basic information on PC architectre and operating systems. This knowledge will be the basis to acquire programming tools to be used then in the second module of this course.
Learning skills: the basic concept of algorithm will be underlined as a general tool to instruct a computer to perform a ordered series of operations as to reach the requested goals.
Prerequisites
None
Course unit content
Linux OS
Fortran Language
Numerical methods
Full programme
PC architecture
Operating systems
Linux OS
Algorithm
Numerical differentiation
Numerical integration
Bibliography
We will mainly use on-line manuals and tutorials , like, e.g., http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~rachael/compphys/SelfStudyF95.
Teaching methods
48 hours of frontal lessons. The student will be offered (open source) software as to indivilly develope the proposed methods.
Assessment methods and criteria
The student will be able to work with Linux operating system, to develop simple algorithms and to implement them in the Fortran language for the solution of numerical methods of chemical interest.
Other information
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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development
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