.. _lecturer:

Lecturer installation instructions
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NEST Desktop
~~~~~~~~~~~~

:doc:`NEST Desktop <desktop:index>` is a graphical user interface designed for illustrating neural network concepts
ideal for the classroom setting.
There are several materials for Bachelor and Master's level already prepared.

* Check out :doc:`the lecture material for NEST Desktop <desktop:lecturer/index>`


Docker install
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We provide a docker container for NEST that also includes NESTML. You can select from options
to also include NEST-Desktop, Jupyter Notebooks, or JupyterLab.


See :ref:`instructions for docker here <docker>`.



Live media
~~~~~~~~~~


We provide an OVA live media format that can work in virtual machines (like Virtualbox).
See the :ref:`live media install instructions here <live_media>`

Alternatively, you can check out the `Comp-Neuro Fedora Project <https://labs.fedoraproject.org/en/comp-neuro/>`_.
They provide an image of many computational neuroscience tools including NEST!

.. note::

  NEST developers do not officially support the Comp-Neuro Fedora Project. Questions and issues regarding the image from
  Comp-Neuro Fedora should be directed to that community.

.. admonition:: Teaching material

  Here is some material that you find useful for your students:

  * :ref:`PyNEST tutorials <tutorials>`

  * For creating and modifying models, see :doc:`NESTML tutorials <nestml:tutorials/tutorials_list>`