Geant4 on Docker, Getting Started

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Don't install Geant4! You can get going 10x faster by just running Geant4 in a docker container.

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In this video, I show how to get started developing Geant4 with docker using VSCode on Windows 11.

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:11 What is docker?
00:43 Why docker with Geant4?
01:34 Getting setup with docker and vscode
03:20 How to create a Dockerfile
05:04 Using the official Geant4 image
05:58 Opening a directory in a container
07:18 Compiling a Geant4 app in container
08:03 Developing a Geant4 app in the container
09:06 Issues: Visualization and Datasets
10:50 Including Datasets in our container
12:01 Successfully running a console Geant4 app
12:23 Pros and Cons of docker with Geant4
13:58 Outro