• Basic Computer Literacy. Whether you could teach Microsoft a thing or two, or you consider computers the spawn of Satan, every chemist needs to be able to sit down at a computer and work with it. For some, this will be a review... for others, a real learning experience.
• Data Analysis. The computer is a fast way to present data in a visual fashion, such as a graph, and also an easy way to perform computations on a set of data to better understand the information it conveys or determine if it is relevant.
• Chemical Information and the Literature. There is a vast amount of chemical information out there. The computer is a key that helps unlock it.
• Analyzing and visualizing molecules on the computer. Sometimes a flat 2-dimensional picture just cannot show the critical aspects of large structures, like proteins. We will be using computer software to allow us to view 3-dimensional structures and rearrange, reorient, etc the structure in any fashion we wish.

Each section of the course will have online content accessible from this site via the menu to the left. All assignments and practice tutorials are listed there. Some of this content may change during the semester, so if you work ahead then be sure to check back before the assignments are due (That is when I will actually grade the your work). These pages have deliberately been written with a minimum of graphics and animation to make them compact and quick to download, either through the direct ethernet connections of the computer lab or over modem lines from home.

Each computer in the computer lab already has the web server and FTP server sites book marked. For those who may access this material from other computers, the web site home page (the one you're looking at right now) is at this address:

All of the Web pages for this course are contained on the Chemistry Department's own server, which may be accesed at: