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I think the course by Richard Fitzpatrick is a much better selection of content if you want to actually do computational physics: https://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/329/329.pdf


Should be modernized to Python or similar.

In 2026, I don't want to do numerical programming in C. That was fine 30 years ago, but today, I expect to have garbage collection or to be able to multiply a matrix as AƗB.


If that's what you want, use Matlab. High-performance scientific computing is still using C, C++ +/- CUDA, or Fortran, with Rust a growing segment.


Different strokes for different fokes.

In 2026 I don't want to use a slow interpreted non-typed language like Python.

C++ (for example) has excellent super fast matrix libraries where you can do AxB.




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