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Course philosophy

My approach to computational physics is to write self-contained programs in a high-level scientific language--i.e., either FORTRAN or C/C++. Of course, there are many other possible approaches, each with their own peculiar advantages and disadvantages. It is instructive to briefly examine the available options.



Richard Fitzpatrick 2006-03-29