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by fault1 1677 days ago
I agree! As a start, Pluto is quite cool for thinking/learning/discovering/exploring, imho: https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl

3blue1brown helped teach the "Computational Thinking" class at MIT using it: https://computationalthinking.mit.edu/Fall20/lecture2/

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Big fan of Pluto, and I’ve watched the Computational Thinking videos several times already.

What I’m looking for when I talk about tools for thinking are the same type of sketching out a problem I do on paper. My first-year physics professor said (many years ago) that the way to start solving a problem is to make a well-labeled figure. I’m looking for something like MathCAD where you can label a figure with equations, or in COMSOL where you can start with a parametric description of a problem.