# Favorite lectures on the Finite Element Method?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/favorite-lectures-on-the-finite-element-method/83211
**Category:** Modelling & Simulations
**Tags:** finite-element, lectures
**Created:** [June 22, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/favorite-lectures-on-the-finite-element-method/83211 "2022-06-22T23:48:55Z")
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### Author:  [@juliohm](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/juliohm)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2022, 11:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/favorite-lectures-on-the-finite-element-method/83211/1 "2022-06-22T23:48:55Z")
Do you have a favorite set of lectures on the Finite Element Method? Possibly a set of lectures with a heavy list of programming exercises that encourages students to build all the building blocks of a modern software library?
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### Author:  [@RosalRicardo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/RosalRicardo)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2022, 12:02am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/favorite-lectures-on-the-finite-element-method/83211/2 "2022-06-23T00:02:02Z")
This set of lectures from Prof. Clayton Pettit, although it is not development of libraries oriented, mostly cover the fundamentals and solving algorithms and it is pretty complete IMHO.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLLSzlda_AXa3yQEJAb5JcmsVDy9i9K_fi&wmode=transparent&rel=0&autohide=1&showinfo=1&enablejsapi=1
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### Author:  [@PetrKryslUCSD](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PetrKryslUCSD)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2022, 12:43am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/favorite-lectures-on-the-finite-element-method/83211/3 "2022-06-23T00:43:06Z")
Lectures by Bangerth, if you don’t mind C++.
[https://www.math.colostate.edu/~bangerth/videos.html](https://www.math.colostate.edu/~bangerth/videos.html)
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### Author:  [@luraess](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/luraess)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2022, 6:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/favorite-lectures-on-the-finite-element-method/83211/4 "2022-06-23T06:10:26Z")
A good book and a very “practical” approach with examples and applications to natural sciences. Matlab codes for all chapters incl. exercises, by [Guy Simpson](https://www.unige.ch/sciences/terre/en/people/deste/lecturers/guy-simpson): [Practical _Finite Element_ Modeling in Earth Science Using Matlab](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119248644)
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### Author:  [@bhaveshshrimali](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bhaveshshrimali)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2022, 3:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/favorite-lectures-on-the-finite-element-method/83211/5 "2022-06-29T15:22:12Z")
Bangerth’s lectures with deal.II for implementation are a fantastic resource!
Another one that I particularly like (though slightly leaning on the math side) is [https://finite-element.github.io/](https://finite-element.github.io/) which basically teaches building things from ground up and is similar in spirit to the high level interface offered by FEniCS/Firedrake etc. I think this approach is baked in the lectures because Dr. David Ham who teaches the implementation part is one of the lead authors of Firedrake.