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I see two approaches. Both have their merits.
1. Learn how to do your own coding to solve the DE in a language of
your choice, Excel, C, Basic, Fortran, ...
2. Use a package that does the grunt work for the numerical solutions
and provides nice outputs including graphs and visualizations.
For
this Maple, Mathematica do th trick, although they are not always
cheap. For free you can get either VPython or Easy Java Simulations.
For an example of the latter, here is a rigid body rotator done in EJS
http://faculty.ifmo.ru/butikov/Applets/Precession.html