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This textbook is intended for graduate students or beginning researchers. Some of the materials in the book come from the lectures of the author at Las Vegas University. Its first 6 chapters deal with the basics of computational physics: basic numerical methods (interpolation, approximation, differentiation, integration, zeros, extremes, random number generators), ordinary differential equations (9 problems or methods), matrices (9 problems or methods), spectral analysis (Fourier transform, wavelet analysis, special functions, Gaussian quadrature), partial differential equations (separation of variables, discretization of the equation, difference equations, relaxation method, groundwater dynamics, initial value problem, temperature field of nuclear wastes). The other 7 chapters introduce some currently used simulation techniques and some of the newest developments in the field (molecular dynamics simulation, modeling continuous systems, Monte Carlo simulations, numerical renormaliztion, symbolic computing). Each of the chapters is ended with exercises. Programs for the discussed examples are written mostly in Fortran 77.