who?
- First year natural science students
- Mixture of chem/phys and bio/chem
how?
- Jupyter notebooks provides a user-friendly environment
- Students can access the notebooks online via MyBinder
why?
- Programming requires the mathematics to be broken down
- Can provide instantenous feedback in problem based learning
example
informal feedback
- Students appear anecdotally engaged during tutorials
- Tutorial students attached modified notebooks to help emails
pylj
- Open-source, Python library to engage students in classical atomistic simulation
- Can be used to introduce molecular dynamics or Monte-Carlo simulation
- Or used to show how simulation can describe physical systems
pylj
- Paper in Journal of Open-Source Education, 1(2), 19. DOI: 10.21105/jose.00019
- MIT Licence; source code available on GitHub
- Bath physics PDRA forked it to make pysing
Try pylj out
- Molecular dynamics - pythoninchemistry.org/pylj/md
- Monte Carlo - pythoninchemistry.org/pylj/mc
