There's an excellent statistical mechanics course on Coursera that goes through these steps: https://www.coursera.org/learn/statistical-mechanics https://www.co

There's an excellent statistical mechanics course on Coursera that goes through these steps: https://www.coursera.org/learn/statistical-mechanics https://www.coursera.org/learn/statistical-mechanics It uses python and had a mindblowing moment when I realized how the simulation I wrote connected to the world, making it one of the few I actually managed to finish. As you alluded to, the lecturers definitely hint that simpler code is easier to work with as the later stuff becomes impossibly complex with anything more.