Study guide: Intro to Computing with Finite Difference Methods

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Philosophy: simplify, understand, generalize

Start with simplified ODE/PDE problems

Learn to reason about the discretization

Learn to implement, verify, and experiment

Understand the method, program, and results

Generalize the problem, method, and program

This is the power of applied mathematics!