Obviously a Computational Physics course means different things to
different people. A computational physics course can be easily taught
at the high school level if suitable topics are covered. Presumably it
is an elective.
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I have not organized such a course. I would consider introducing
spreadsheets. I would (and I think others should seriously consider it)
introduce them to Mathcad (or the program designed for high school
students Studyworks, based on Mathcad).
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A very useful activity would be to have the students create
Interactive Physics models for most of the homework problems from
the regular physics course.
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If anybody wants me to expand on any of these comments, I will
be happy to do so.