Chemistry | University of Parma

Professor
Academic discipline: Chimica fisica (CHIM/02)
Field: Attività formative affini o integrative
Type of training activity: Related/supplementary

24 hours
of face-to-face activities

3 credits

hub: PARMA

course unit
in ITALIAN

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exam calls

Integrated course unit module: COMPUTATIONAL METHOD IN CHEMISTRY: A PRIMER

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

Full programme

PC architecture
Operating systems
Linux OS
Algorithm
Basic programming tols in Fortran

Bibliography

We will mainly use on-line manuals and tutorials , like, e.g., http://www.mrao.cam.ac.uk/~rachael/compphys/SelfStudyF95.
pdf

Teaching methods

24 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.

Other information

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PROGRAMMING TOOLS: A PRIMER cod. 1005653