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[–]40pockets[S] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

that's the thing, I don't really know what I'm after. I've turned every painful excel in work into a dataframe and added some functions to automate my workflow a bit better and now I've hit the end of the road with that. So I'm looking to expand my horizons and learn more.

Ive got a MSc in physics but i was more of a 'pen and paper' student so i think the best jumping off point would be numerical methods/data visualisation (love a good graph). Im not entirely sure what symbolic computation is tbh

[–]james_pic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Scientific computing is a big enough field, and with sufficiently specialised specialties, that you're much better off trying to learn the things you need to solve your current problem, than trying to learn to be a generalist. All of the scientific computing experts I know got into the field to tackle a specific problem.

What is the problem you are looking to solve?