This document discusses density functional theory (DFT) and exact exchange methods. It provides background on DFT, the Kohn-Sham equations, and common exchange-correlation functionals like the local density approximation (LDA) and generalized gradient approximations (GGA). It then introduces exact exchange (EXX) methods, which neglect correlation and use the Hartree-Fock exchange energy. Calculating the functional derivative of the exchange energy is discussed to obtain the exchange potential within the Kohn-Sham scheme for EXX.