Getting Started with AMS
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This is a set of hands-on tutorials for the graphical user interface
(GUI) of the Amsterdam Modeling Suite.

* **Time required**: About half an hour for each part.

* **Note**: You may get slightly different results depending on
  hardware and software versions.

* **More information**: GUI manual  and list of keyboard shortcuts.

GUI modules[image]

**Keywords:** AMSinput, AMSoutput, AMSview, AMSmovie, AMSlevels,
logfile, AMSspectra, BandStructure, AMSdos, KFBrowser, AMSjobs

Getting started: Geometry optimization of ethanol[image]

**Keywords:** ADF, DFT, building molecules, geometry optimization,
orbital, energy levels, electron density

GUI tour: UV/Vis spectrum of ethene[image]

**Keywords:** ADF, UV/Vis, TDDFT, singlet and triplet excitation,
orbital level, DOS, Natural Transition Orbitals (NTOs), Transition
Density, excited state geometry optimization, export results

10 Ways to Get the Energy and Other Properties[image]

**Keywords:** GUI, command-line, Python

Run Jobs from the Command Line[image]

**Keywords:** Command-line, terminal, shell script, run script, run
file

Run Jobs with Python Scripts[image]

**Keywords:** Python, PLAMS, ChemicalSystem, Settings, scripting,
multiple molecules

Run Jobs with Jupyter Notebooks[image]

**Keywords:** Jupyter notebook, Python, PLAMS
