Learning 6 | Beckstein Lab

As a computational scientist you have one primary tool at your hand: a computer. In order to get most out of it you have to communicate with it via text commands, entered on the command line. This article points to some resources that should help you to learn how to do this.

As part of his final project for the course Simulation Approaches to Bio- and Nanophysics (ASU PHY494/PHY598), C. Michael Gilbert performed classical molecular dynamics simulations of a smaller carbon nanotube in a larger one.

When you think about how you really learned those things that you are good at then chances are that this did not come from a lecture or a video. For many people, learning and understanding comes from working on a problem (often “hitting your head against a wall until the wall yields”) or explaining it to others.

The best way to learn something is to do it – therefore we are sharing some of our notes and insights on how to do what we do. This section of the website also serves for public notes for classes, lectures and tutorials taught at ASU (in addition to any content on Blackboard). Finally, we will also showcase some work that came out of classes.