Learn physical organic chemistry for free.

Name: Physical Organic
Author: Theodore Jefferson

The principles of organic chemistry you learned in college are no coincidence. Physical organic chemistry seeks to explain these principles— and the world around us— through the relationship between chemical structures and reactivity.

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Physical Organic is an in-development solo project by Theodore Jefferson. It serves to be a free, open-source resource to help elucidate why the fundamentals of organic chemistry are the way they are, and to do so in an easily accessibly way. Physical organic chemistry classically does this through exploring the relationship between structure and reactivity. As this website is only developed by one person, it will be in progress for the foreseeable future.

announcements,
a course calendar,
a staff page,
and a weekly schedule.

Just the Class is a template that extends the popular Just the Docs theme, which provides a robust and thoroughly-tested foundation for your website. Just the Docs include features such as:

automatic navigation structure,
instant, full-text search and page indexing,
and a set of UI components and authoring utilities.

Getting Started

Getting started with Just the Class is simple.

Create a new repository based on Just the Class.
Update _config.yml and README.md with your course information. Be sure to update the url and baseurl.
Configure a publishing source for GitHub Pages. Your course website is now live!
Edit and create .md Markdown files to add more content pages.

Just the Class has been used by instructors at Stanford University (CS 161), UC Berkeley (Data 100), UC Santa Barbara (CSW8), Northeastern University (CS4530/5500), and Carnegie Mellon University (17-450/17-950). Share your course website and find more examples in the show and tell discussion!

Local development environment

Just the Class requires no special Jekyll plugins and can run on GitHub Pages’ standard Jekyll compiler. To setup a local development environment, clone your template repository and follow the GitHub Docs on Testing your GitHub Pages site locally with Jekyll.