Student Resources

From Photon to Neuron: Light, Imaging, Vision is a textbook intended for intermediate-level undergraduates in any science or engineering major. The only prerequisite for this course is first-year physics.

Here is the preface “To the Student.”
Here is the list of known errata.
Here are links to external media (videos etc.) cited in the book.
Here are the Datasets cited in the book, with documentation.
There is also a combined zip archive with all the datasets.
Additional chapters are now available in preliminary form:

Also useful:

A Student’s Guide to Python for Physical Modeling by Jesse M. Kinder and Philip Nelson (Princeton University Press). E-book editions are also available. Chapter 1 is freely available.

The book has an associated blog.

A Student’s Guide to MATLAB for Physical Modeling, by Philip Nelson with Tom Dodson. This book is a free download.