I have always thought an ideal physics curriculum at such a level would actually involve the students creating software packages to accomplish something like th

I have always thought an ideal physics curriculum at such a level would actually involve the students creating software packages to accomplish something like this. I think these are great illustrations of the principles, but there's value in making the students visualize the problem independently IMHO. Then again, I hear the argument "not everyone needs to learn programming" too often to think my idea has a realistic chance of traction any time soon.