Chem324 is a Jekyll-based documentation site for the Chem 3240 Quantum Mechanics for Chemistry course at Iowa State University, publishing lecture notes and per-lecture slides as static HTML built from Markdown and Jupyter notebooks.
What is Chem324?
Chem324 is the public GitHub repository behind the course website for Chem 3240, Quantum Mechanics for Chemistry, offered at Iowa State University. It takes lecture content written in Markdown and Jupyter notebooks and compiles it into a static HTML website through the Jekyll static site generator, giving students browsable lecture notes alongside a slide deck for each lecture. The repository's GitHub topics describe it as a Jekyll theme with a Markdown-to-HTML workflow, and it has collected 25 stars.
Key Features
- Jekyll static site generation — the site is built on Jekyll, so Markdown sources compile into plain HTML that can be served from GitHub Pages or any static host.
- Jupyter notebook support — lecture materials include Jupyter notebooks, letting quantum chemistry examples mix written explanations with executable Python cells.
- Python-based content — the repository's python topic indicates the course examples and computations are written in Python.
- Markdown-to-HTML pipeline — lecture notes are authored in Markdown and rendered to HTML, keeping the source files readable and friendly to version control.
- Per-lecture slides — each lecture has both detailed notes and its own slide deck, giving students two ways to review the same material.
- Quantum chemistry and mechanics topics — the content is tagged with both quantum-chemistry and quantum-mechanics, covering the course's core subject matter.
Who is it for?
- Iowa State University Chem 3240 students — use the site to read lecture-by-lecture notes and review slide decks when studying for exams or catching up on missed lectures.
- Chemistry instructors — can study the public repository as a model for organizing a quantum chemistry course site with Jekyll, Markdown, and Jupyter notebooks.
- Self-directed chemistry learners — can read the notes and run the Jupyter notebooks with Python to work through quantum mechanical methods at their own pace.
What can you do with Chem324?
- Students: browse the lecture notes directly in a web browser and flip through each lecture's slide deck to review topics on demand.
- Learners with Python installed: clone the repository and execute the Jupyter notebooks locally to reproduce the quantum chemistry examples.
- Educators: fork the Jekyll theme and adapt the Markdown-based structure to publish their own course lecture notes online.
