braedonwatkins

lol. lmao even.

I read most of the 1st edition (busy), I'm sure it hasn't changed much to the 2nd. I would say it's rather good at an introductory level to the subject!

It definitely targets physics undergrads who have never programmed so if that's not you then you may feel friction during some chapters. If, like me, you are much more developed in programming than physics you might just want to do the exercises in the first few chapters to check your knowledge and move on to the good bits.

If you're looking for something more rigorous I would bet [Numerical Recipes](https://numerical.recipes/) is better (I haven't read it but I want to; see "busy").

I remember a friend and I in college were looking into ways to do this in the US but major grocery chains here are pretty sensitive about their product data being accessible by open APIs and web scraping...

It would have been a cool project!

tetris effect! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

solar radiation immediately feels like a huge problem... the more i think about the scenario the more problems i come up with