Chemistry 350 |
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| 1 | Introduction, Windows, Communications, the Internet | GMU Responsible Use of Computing Policy, Windows overview, Web browsers, e-mail, Internet basics |
| 2 | Computers and Operating Systems: Mainframe and PC |
Files and file management, directories, FTP, telnet, basic Unix commands, text editors, etc. |
| 3 | WWW | WWW basics and browsers, basic HTML and web site design and development, HTML editor, managing images |
| 4 | Intellectual property, copyright and fair use ~Quiz 1 | |
| 5 | Chemical Information Searching | Web search engines, Boolean logic, search strategies, information databases |
| 6 | e-Journals, SciFinder Scholar |
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| 7 | Chemical Structure Drawing and Visualization | Drawing chemical structures, templates, structure libraries, 3D viewing ~Quiz 2 |
| 8 | Windows Apps; OLE | Linking and embedding objects (graphics, files, etc.), Equation Editor |
| 9 | Visualization (cont'd) and Molecular Modeling | Visualization software, techniques in computational chemistry such as molecular mechanics, energy minimization, geometry optimization |
| 10 | Data Analysis | MS Excel spreadsheets; formulas and functions, graphing, statistical analysis of data ~Quiz 3 |
| 11 | Data Analysis (cont'd) | |
| 12 | More Computer and Professional Ethics | Responsible Research in Science and professional codes of conduct in chemistry |
| 13 | Ethics; Molecular Modeling (cont'd) | ~Quiz4 |
| 14 | Molecular Modeling (cont'd) | Visualizing and calculating protein/heterocompound interactions |
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