The main tools for computational parts of this course will be
Git for version control and submitting homeworks via MSU’s GitLab instance,
and Jupyter/Python for numerical exercises and plotting.
In addition, it is recommended to use a computer algebra system for symbolic manipulations during homeworks, e.g., Mathematica. The Python distribution we are using contains the SymPy package which aims to provide the same functionality, but it is still lacking some capabilities.
More information and tutorials can be found in the following subsections.