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I am a PhD student in mechanical engineering seeking recommendations and a map to enhance my skills. I want to know what is the proper order of studying these topics in addition. Am I missing anything? Is there any skill that I forgot? Be comprehensive. I want a 3-year plan. If you see any skill gap mention it. 

I have the following books
1. A Tour of C++ – builds the foundation quickly
2. Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing)    
3. Effective STL – master STL containers for parser/raytracer
4. Design Patterns (GoF) – structure components properly
5. Large-Scale C++ Software Design – for the parser/doc framework

My goal is to tackle cutting-edge problems in industry or academia, focusing on real-world applications.
During my master’s degree, I completed coursework in control systems and deep learning, gaining proficiency in Python and PyTorch. My master’s thesis focused on predicting chaotic dynamical systems using the Koopman operator with deep learning-based numerical implementations.
For my PhD, I have been working on estimating fluid properties from high-speed video footage, training neural networks (including LSTMs and transformers). My current research centers on solving inverse problems, specifically inferring surface properties from fluid behavior. For instance, I aim to reconstruct 3D surface representations based on fluid dynamics. To support this, I learned basic C/C++ and multithreading to interface a high-speed camera with my system. My PhD plan includes three main projects:

A low-risk project to produce a publication, estimating fluid properties from a known substrate.
Implementing a reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm to infer the 3D shape of a droplet from its reflection and reconstruct it from a single image.
Reconstructing a 3D substrate using liquid probing techniques.

Challenges I’ve encountered include:

Python’s performance limitations, particularly its lack of true multithreading.
Difficulty distributing tasks across multiple computers.
Inability to effectively utilize relevant GitHub repositories written in C/C++ due to limited expertise.

To address these, I plan to deepen my expertise in C/C++ and CUDA while advancing my Python skills. Specifically, I am eager to learn inter-process communication (IPC), MPI, GDB, Pthreads, sockets, Cython, and assembly (to optimize for L1/L2 caching). Additionally, I want to master multithreading, C++20 features, and C/C++-Python bindings.
3 Years Plan:
    Books:
    – Effective C++ & Effective STL (semesters 1–2)
    – Design Patterns & Large-Scale C++ Software Design (as you start building the framework in sem 2)
    Months 01-03: C/C++ Mastery
        Topics:
            Pointers,
            memory management,
            templates,
            modern C++ (C++11 to C++20),
            Profiling & debug: GDB, Valgrind,
            Concurrency: <thread>, Pthreads, producer–consumer patterns
            Linux toolchain,
            Make/CMake,
            Git (branching, rebasing).

        
        Why:
            Your basic C/C++ knowledge needs deepening to handle high-speed camera interfacing and optimize performance-critical code.
        
        Practice:
            Refactor a Python data preprocessing script into C++ to compare performance.

        Resources:
            Effective Modern C++ by Scott Meyers, cppreference.com, LeetCode (C++).

    Months 4-6: Multithreading and Parallelism
        Topics:
            Pthreads (C),
            C++ <thread>,
            synchronization (mutexes, semaphores).
            Distributed systems & IPC
            MPI (“Hello World” parallel Poisson solver)
            ZeroMQ or raw sockets/shared memory


        Practice:
            Write a multithreaded C++ program to process high-speed video frames.

        Resources:
            C++ Concurrency in Action by Anthony Williams, POSIX threads guide.

    Months 7-9: Python-C/C++ Integration
        Topics: 
            Cython (optimization),
            pybind11 (bindings)

        Why:
            Bridge your Python deep learning code with C++ for performance gains in fluid dynamics tasks.
        Practice:
            Integrate a C++ fluid dynamics library into your Python workflow using pybind11.
        Resources:
            Cython docs,
            pybind11 docs.

    Months 10-12: Assembly and Low-Level Optimization
        Topics:
            x86 assembly,
            memory hierarchy (L1/L2 caching).
        
        Why:
            Optimize neural network inference or video processing for your specific hardware.

        Practice:
            Optimize a C++ code section (e.g., LSTM inference) for cache efficiency.

        Resources:
            Assembly Language for x86 Processors by Kip Irvine, cache optimization tutorials.


    Enable task distribution across machines and leverage GPU acceleration for your neural network and fluid dynamics computations.
    Months 13-18: Inter-Process Communication (IPC), Sockets and Advanced numerics & fluid mechanics
        Topics:
            Shared memory,
            message passing,
            socket programming,
            MPI basics (point-to-point, collective communication), parallel algorithms.
            Finite‐volume/element libraries (OpenFOAM, deal.II),
            Mesh generation/adaptivity (Gmsh),
            Spectral methods & stability analysis,
            Adjoint methods for PDEs,


        Why:
            Facilitate communication between processes for distributed video processing.

        Practice:
            Build a client-server system to split video processing across two machines.

        Resources:
            IPC tutorials, Beej’s Network Programming Guide.

    Months 19-24: CUDA for GPU Acceleration & Advanced Distributed Systems
        Topics:
            CUDA programming,
            GPU optimization,
            Distributed file systems (e.g., HDFS),
        Why:
            Ensure reproducible,
            scalable research environments,

        Practice:
            Containerize your codebase for consistency across systems,

    Months 25-30: Reinforcement Learning (RL) Implementation
        Topics: 
            Deep RL (DQN, PPO),
            RL for inverse problems,
            Computer vision for 3D reconstruction,
            point cloud processing.

        Why:
            Directly supports your droplet shape inference project.
            Essential for your liquid probing and substrate reconstruction project.

        Practice:
            Implement an RL algorithm to reconstruct droplet shapes, using CUDA if needed.
            Build a pipeline for 3D substrate reconstruction from video data.





Visualization tools (VTK for 3D fluid reconstructions


What about learning assembly?
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Assembly is nice to know at a basic level, but not essential for your industry goals.
If you like, I can propose a tiny assembly + C project to satisfy your curiosity without going down a rabbit hole.

❓ Assembly is usually not required for:
    High-level C/C++ applications that interact with instruments over serial, TCP/IP, USB, etc.
    Most industrial control, automation, or data acquisition systems
    AI/ML integration or deployment

🧠 Learning some assembly can be useful if:
    You’re working on embedded systems with very tight resource constraints (e.g., microcontrollers with a few KB of RAM).
    You want to deeply understand how C/C++ code translates to machine instructions (e.g., for performance optimization, debugging weird low-level bugs).
    You’re writing device drivers, firmware, or RTOS kernels.

🏭 Industry relevance
    ➡ In most industry jobs — including robotics, automation, aerospace, automotive — assembly is not required for 95% of engineering work.
    ➡ Knowing about assembly (e.g., how the stack works, registers, calling conventions) helps you write better C/C++ and debug performance.
    ➡ Only a small subset of embedded/firmware or ultra low-level hardware jobs will expect actual assembly programming skills.

🚀 What I recommend
    ✅ Learn just enough assembly to:
        Understand how your C/C++ code maps to machine instructions (e.g., inspect disassembly in gdb or with objdump)
        Understand stack frames, registers, calling conventions
        Recognize bottlenecks in performance-critical code

    ✅ Focus your time on:
        C/C++ mastery (you’ll get 10x the ROI for your target goals)
        Embedded C if needed (for closer-to-hardware tasks)

    🎯 If you want to explore assembly:
        Pick x86-64 or ARM assembly (depending on your target platform)
        Build small experiments: e.g., write a function in assembly, call it from C
        Learn to read compiler output (gcc -S)

👉 Good resources:
    PC Assembly Language by Paul A. Carter (free PDF)
    Godbolt Compiler Explorer (online tool to see C/C++ → assembly)












What about CUDA?
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➡ CUDA is good to have if you aim for roles with heavy GPU computing (robotics vision, automotive ADAS, simulation-heavy roles).
➡ Not essential for typical data acquisition / control jobs unless those involve high-speed processing that CPUs can’t handle.

You will work on real-time or near real-time AI inference on NVIDIA GPUs (robotics vision, autonomous systems, manufacturing vision inspection, etc.)
You’re doing heavy simulations (e.g., physics, FEM, fluid dynamics) where GPU acceleration gives huge speedups
You want to work in industries where NVIDIA GPUs are standard (e.g., robotics, automotive ADAS, aerospace, medical imaging)

✅ A deep understanding of how to design parallel algorithms

💡 If your target jobs are in robotics, automotive, aerospace — and they mention GPU programming, CUDA is a great skill.
💡 If not, your time might be better spent mastering C++, system design, comms protocols, or AI deployment frameworks (ONNX, TensorRT — these use CUDA behind the scenes, but shield you from writing CUDA code).
📝 My recommendation
    ✅ Learn CUDA basics — understand how GPU kernels work, how threads/blocks/grid are structured.
    ✅ Build 1 mini project: e.g., implement matrix multiplication or signal processing in CUDA to grasp concepts.
    ✅ Focus more on using GPU-accelerated tools unless you know you’ll need custom CUDA kernels.

🌟 Alternative to full CUDA dive
    Learn TensorRT / ONNX Runtime to deploy AI models on GPUs efficiently (industry cares about this!)
    Use CuPy (Python library that’s NumPy-compatible but runs on CUDA) if you want to explore GPU acceleration with low overhead











Do you recommend learning Fortran?
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Fortran isn’t needed for your target industry roles in control, AI, or enterprise data acquisition.
But knowing how to interface with Fortran can be handy if you end up near legacy simulation systems.

👉 Learning Fortran well takes time.

👉 In modern industry, you'd more likely:
    Interface to existing Fortran libraries using C/C++ or Python
    Call optimized Fortran code from your main application
    Rarely write lots of new Fortran code

👉 In most industry jobs (even in aerospace, automotive, robotics):
    ➡ You’ll use C/C++, Python, or modern high-performance frameworks (CUDA, OpenMP, MPI).
    ➡ Fortran will be "good to understand" if working near legacy code.

✅ My recommendation
    ➡ Learn what Fortran is, how to interoperate with it (e.g., calling Fortran from C/Python)
    ➡ No need to spend time mastering Fortran syntax or writing new Fortran code unless you’re sure you’ll join a simulation-heavy org using it
    ➡ Focus your time on C++, Python, AI deployment, software engineering best practices, performance optimization (e.g., OpenMP, CUDA if needed)

🌟 If you’re curious
If you do want to explore:
    Write a small Fortran routine (e.g. matrix multiply or ODE solver)
    Call it from C or Python (using f2py or C bindings)
    See how Fortran integrates with modern code











And what about Adobe after effect and blender for presenting my work?
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✅ After Effects (AE) — Great for:
    Creating polished, dynamic animations (diagrams, system block models, data visualizations)
    Motion graphics that explain complex concepts clearly
    Adding professional effects to video recordings of simulations or experiments

✅ Blender — Great for:
    3D modeling of components, assemblies, experimental setups
    Simulating and rendering realistic scenes (e.g., robotics arm, machine, test rig)
    Animating mechanisms or processes

✅ If you're curious:
    Spend a few hours learning Blender basics (there are many free YouTube tutorials; it’s great for engineering scenes)
    Consider DaVinci Resolve as an alternative to After Effects — also powerful and there’s a good free version

✅ Focus on:
    Telling a clear story with your visuals (even a simple clean 2D animation can be very effective)
    Automating data-driven animations (Python + Manim, Matplotlib, or Plotly sometimes gets you 80% of the way with less effort)

✅ If you want:
    I can help you design a presentation pipeline (e.g. data → animation → final video) that fits your goals
    Suggest beginner-friendly Blender or AE tutorials for engineers











Do you recommend learning GDB?
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I strongly recommend learning GDB (the GNU Debugger)

⏳ Time investment?
    You can get comfortable with basic GDB in a weekend.
    Use it regularly — every time you have a bug, step into GDB instead of adding print statements.
    You'll level up fast and impress teammates during code reviews or incident resolution.

✅ GDB helps you:
    Find and fix segmentation faults, memory bugs, and crashes
    Step through code line by line, inspect variables, control flow, and function calls
    Analyze core dumps (post-mortem debugging)
    Debug multithreaded programs or interactions with hardware/drivers
    Set conditional breakpoints, watchpoints (monitor memory), or reverse-step (with rr)

🧪 In your specific use case (lab instruments, enterprise C/C++ software):
    If you’re reading from sensors, parsing binary protocols, or using drivers — a segfault or memory issue is inevitable.
    GDB will let you debug even when you can’t easily "print" things (e.g., driver crashes, low-level bugs).
    Bonus: You can attach GDB to a running process if a service or daemon misbehaves.

🧰 Recommended GDB skills to learn
    ✅ Basics:
        break, run, next, step, print, backtrace, continue
        
    ✅ Intermediate:
        Conditional breakpoints: break if x > 5
        Watchpoints: watch *ptr
        Inspect memory/registers: x, info registers
    
    ✅ Advanced:
        Debugging core dumps: gdb ./a.out core
        Using TUI mode: gdb -tui
        Remote debugging: GDB server / gdbstub (great for embedded/hardware targets)

🛠 Tools that work well with GDB
    Valgrind:
        memory leak detector + works with GDB

    GDB GUI frontends:
        VSCode with GDB debugger plugin
        gdb-dashboard (for a prettier CLI interface)
        cgdb or gdb -tui (text UI)

For windows debugging GDB is not the best but still works. Figure it out when you get there.
For CUDA can use CUDA-GDB.











what project do you recommend I implement by hand to get better with C and C++?
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As a PhD student with a focus on control, AI, and instrumentation, and aiming for industry, your C/C++ project should reinforce:
    ✅ Pointers, memory management
    ✅ File I/O and binary protocols
    ✅ Structs, classes, interfaces (OOP and low-level data modeling)
    ✅ Multi-threading / async / real-time behavior
    ✅ Communication with hardware or networked devices
    ✅ Clean code, modular design, and build systems (e.g., CMake)

🔧 Recommended Projects (ordered from practical → deep)
1. 🧪 Lab Instrument Emulator & Data Logger
    Why: Directly applicable to your thesis/instrument work and industrial jobs
    What it teaches: Serial or TCP communication, file logging, parsing, threading

    Details:
        Emulate a simple lab device that outputs fake sensor data (e.g., temp, pressure)
        Write a C++ app that connects to it, parses messages (binary or ASCII), and logs to a file
        Bonus: Add live plotting with Python or Qt GUI in C++

    ➡️ You’ll build real-world I/O code, buffering, memory safety, and thread-safe logging
    Challenge extensions: use ring buffers, support multiple devices, make a CLI config tool

2. 📡 Modbus or SCPI Protocol Parser
    Why: Many industrial devices use SCPI (lab instruments) or Modbus (PLC/control)
    What it teaches: Parsing, command handling, protocol implementation

    Details:
        Implement a small subset of SCPI or Modbus RTU in C++
        Simulate a device and a controller
        Include CRC checking, byte-level parsing, state machine logic

    ➡️ You’ll learn byte-level control, protocol framing, and low-level debugging

3. 🛠 Multithreaded Control Loop Simulator
    Why: Fits your control background + teaches modern C++ concurrency
    What it teaches: Threading, timing, PID design, synchronization

    Details:
        Implement a simulated plant (e.g., mass-spring-damper)
        Run a control loop (PID) in a separate thread at a fixed interval
        Visualize output (file log, simple CLI plots, or socket to Python)

    ➡️ You’ll practice timing, real-time scheduling, and memory-safe multithreaded design
    Bonus: Use std::thread, mutex, condition_variable, or explore boost::asio or libevent

4. 📦 Embedded-Style Circular Buffer Library (Ring Buffer)
    Why: Core to all embedded/real-time apps
    What it teaches: Raw memory management, efficiency, edge cases

    Details:
        Implement a generic (templated) ring buffer in C++
        Test with producer-consumer model
        Provide thread-safe mode as an option

    ➡️ Teaches low-level memory and how to write safe, high-performance reusable code

5. 🧠 Mini Neural Net Inference Engine
    Why: Bridge AI knowledge + C++ performance
    What it teaches: Linear algebra, memory layout, optimization

    Details:
        Implement feedforward inference for 2-layer fully connected NN
        No external libs — handle all math yourself
        Bonus: Use SIMD (SSE/AVX), compare against Python/NumPy

    ➡️ You’ll learn cache usage, layout optimization, and performance tuning
    Great for interview discussion or industry demos

6. 🗄️ C++ Plugin System with Dynamic Libraries

    Why: Common in enterprise/scientific apps
    What it teaches: Interfaces, shared libraries, runtime linking (dlopen / LoadLibrary)

    Details:
        Design a plugin interface (e.g., for new "data processors")
        Load .so or .dll files at runtime
        Register plugins via config file or discovery

➡️ Teaches real-world software architecture and extensibility
🧭 Next Steps

✅ Pick one project and go deep rather than wide
✅ Use:
    valgrind, gdb (or WinDbg) for debugging
    clang-tidy or cppcheck for static analysis
    CMake for a professional build system











Do you recommend that I learn IPC interpreters communication 
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🧪 1. Lab Instrument Integration
    You mentioned you're developing software to connect lab instruments. Many instruments:
        Run on separate processes, devices, or even systems
        Need communication via sockets, shared memory, or serial protocols
        Sometimes expose APIs via Python, C, or shell interpreters

        🔧 IPC (e.g., pipes, shared memory, sockets) is essential for managing these data streams efficiently and safely.

🧠 2. Bridging C/C++ Simulators with Python/AI Tools
    You’re working in AI + control + simulation. In practice:
        AI models (PyTorch) often live in Python
        Simulations or real-time systems (C/C++) need to send/receive data
        You’ll need fast, low-latency data exchange

        ⚡ IPC lets you avoid writing monolithic applications and enables you to combine the best tools for each job.

💻 3. Enterprise & Industry Use Cases
    In real-world engineering software:
        GUI runs in one process, back-end in another
        You communicate between real-time systems, hardware drivers, user interfaces, etc.
        IPC is fundamental for multi-process safety, performance, and modular design











One of my friends uses Cinematic 4K to make academic paper figures and the results are fabulous.
Do you recommend learning this tool to make images, if not what tools do you recommend?
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Learn Bleeder











For the fluid simulator, is it a good idea to implement it with CUDA, C and C++ and also adding a wrapper for python for debugging purposes?
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Yes — that is not just a good idea, it’s a strategically excellent architecture for your fluid simulator, especially given your PhD goals and future interest in industry. Here's a breakdown of why this is smart and how to structure it.
✅ Why This Is a Great Architecture
1. CUDA for Performance
    Fluid simulation is computationally expensive (especially in 3D).
    CUDA enables massive parallelism for:
        Advection, diffusion, projection steps
        Pressure solvers (e.g. Jacobi, multigrid, PCG)
        Particle systems or semi-Lagrangian steps
    You get GPU-accelerated performance, which is critical for real-time or high-res sims.

2. C/C++ for Core Infrastructure
    C/C++ gives you:
        Fine control over memory and performance
        Strong numerical libraries (Eigen, cuBLAS, etc.)
        Easier debugging than CUDA-only
    Acts as the main simulation engine layer

3. Python Wrapper for Debugging and Flexibility
    Python makes testing, debugging, and visualization easier:
        Plotting with matplotlib, 3D visualization with PyVista or mayavi
        Fast integration with Jupyter notebooks
    Allows AI and ML workflows to interact with your simulator (e.g. reinforcement learning or control)
    🔧 Your Python wrapper becomes a live interface to test your engine — change parameters, run steps, visualize, all without recompiling.

🔄 How to Structure It

/simulator/
├── src/
│   ├── main.cu / .cpp        # Core CUDA/C++ simulation logic
│   ├── solver.cu             # Pressure solver, advection, etc.
│   ├── grid.h / .cpp         # Data structures
│   └── interface.cpp         # Exposed interface functions
├── python/
│   ├── simulator.py          # Pybind11 wrapper
│   └── tests/
├── include/
│   └── *.h                   # Shared headers
├── CMakeLists.txt
└── examples/

    Use pybind11 to expose C++ and CUDA entry points to Python.
    Keep CUDA kernels modular and callable from C++.
    Build with CMake, set up build targets for both native use and Python module (like a wheel or shared lib).

🧪 Example Workflow
    Write a 3D fluid simulation step in CUDA.
    Expose step_simulation() and get_velocity_field() in C++.
    Wrap them with pybind11 into FluidSim Python class.
 
    In Jupyter:
    sim = FluidSim(resolution=(64,64,64))
    sim.step()
    u, v, w = sim.get_velocity_field()
    pyvista.plot_vector_field(u, v, w)

🔍 Debugging Benefits
Without Python	With Python Wrapper
Recompile for every param change	Adjust viscosity, dt, etc. on the fly
Hard to plot internal state	Use matplotlib, PyVista, VTK
Cumbersome integration testing	Write fast unit/integration tests in Python
🛠️ Libraries to Help

    pybind11 – best for C++/Python interface

    Thrust – CUDA STL-like utilities

    cuBLAS or Eigen – for solving linear systems

    PyVista, matplotlib, ParaView – for visualization

    Catch2, doctest – for C++ unit testing

🧠 TL;DR: Why It’s the Right Move
Element	Why It's Ideal for You
CUDA	High-performance simulation core
C++	Infrastructure, structure, flexibility
Python	Debugging, prototyping, ML/AI bridge
Interop	Positions you for research + industry work
Modularity	Enables future expansion (GUI, visualization, AI agent control)

If you'd like, I can scaffold a starter template with:

    CUDA/C++ advection kernel

    pybind11 interface

    Python test and visualization script

Would that be useful to you?











I have intermediate knowledge in Python, and used Python for Ai programming. 
Based on the information of this chat.
What book do you recommend to improve myskills
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🧩 Suggested Learning Path
    Read Effective Python cover to cover — start applying principles in your wrapper/debug code.
    Use High Performance Python when optimizing your simulator + Python bridge.
    Use Python for Data Analysis to analyze simulation or AI results.
    Optionally, dive into Fluent Python for elegance and power.

1. 🟩 "Effective Python" by Brett Slatkin (2nd Edition)
    Why: It's the best book to move from intermediate to advanced Python. Focuses on best practices, idioms, and patterns — great for writing clean, efficient, and robust code, which is critical in simulation-AI pipelines.
        Short, actionable chapters (like "Use generators for streaming large data")
        Covers performance, testing, design patterns
        Works great alongside C/C++ backends

📘 Best for: Becoming a professional-grade Python developer.
2. 🟦 "Python for Data Analysis" by Wes McKinney (2nd Edition)
    Why: Written by the creator of pandas. Deepens your fluency with dataframes, plotting, and structured data — very useful for analyzing simulation outputs, AI training logs, or experiment data.
        Practical chapters using real-world datasets
        Emphasizes NumPy, pandas, matplotlib
        Great as a complement to your thesis or lab work

📘 Best for: Data analysis, plotting, and reproducible pipelines.
3. 🟨 "High Performance Python" by Micha Gorelick & Ian Ozsvald
    Why: Teaches you how to make Python fast — and when to drop to C, NumPy, Numba, or CUDA. It’s a perfect bridge between Python and C/CUDA in simulation contexts.
        Focus on profiling, optimization, memory layout
        Explains why Python is slow and how to fix it
        Shows how to use Cython, Numba, multiprocessing, etc.

📘 Best for: Performance-critical Python (e.g., AI-sim integration, physics models).
4. 🟥 "Fluent Python" by Luciano Ramalho
    Why: If you want to go deeper than just syntax — this book dives into Python’s most elegant and advanced features: iterators, descriptors, decorators, coroutines, etc.
        A deep dive into Python’s internals
        Fantastic if you're wrapping C++ or building modular simulation tools

5. 🟫 Bonus: "Deep Learning with PyTorch" by Eli Stevens
    Why: Since you're already using PyTorch, this will help you build sharper, cleaner AI pipelines. It's practical and bridges well with C++ inference if you move that way later.

📘 Best for: Solidifying your AI skills and going deeper in PyTorch.
📚 What You Should Skip (for Now)
    General-purpose Python “crash course” books — you're past that level.
    "Python Tricks" or blog-style collections — not rigorous enough for your goals.
    Anything that doesn’t help with performance, engineering, or AI+simulation integration.










Do you recommend me to learn Javascript?
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Vibe code for now
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🟡 Best Alternative: Learn Just Enough JavaScript to Use Existing Tools
    You could learn:
        Basic JS syntax
        How to use Plotly.js, Three.js, or React for simple frontends
        How to embed Python/C++ results into web views using frameworks like:
            Dash (Python backend, JS frontend)
            Streamlit
            Jupyter + Voilà

This way, you don't go deep into JS, but use it strategically to expose your work.


Learning JavaScript is worth considering, but whether you should depends on your goals. Here's a tailored breakdown based on your background and ambitions:
✅ You Should Learn JavaScript If…
1. You Want to Build Frontends for Your Simulations
    JS is the lingua franca of the web.

    You could build:
        Interactive dashboards for simulation results (e.g. using Three.js or Plotly.js)
        Web-based UIs to control your simulator
        Visualization tools that combine physics + AI output

    🧠 Example: Visualizing fluid dynamics or control systems in 3D on a browser.

2. You Plan to Package Research for Industry or Broader Impact
    Web apps are widely accessible and cross-platform.
    JS + WebGL lets you create demos for investors, collaborators, or users without installing software.

    🧠 Example: Imagine your CUDA-powered simulator has a Python backend + web interface to tweak parameters live and visualize effects.

3. You May Work in Robotics / Simulation Platforms (e.g., ROS dashboards, digital twins)
    Many cloud robotics/industrial systems offer web-based visualization and control panels.
    JavaScript (with frameworks like React + D3.js) is used to build real-time control panels.

❌ Skip Learning JS (For Now) If...
    Your focus is on numerical performance, physics modeling, or deep system programming.
    You're not planning to build tools that require user interaction, cloud-based delivery, or visual dashboards.
    You're already stretched learning CUDA, C++, AI, etc. (which are far more relevant for hardcore simulation work).










Do you recommend me to learn GO?
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✅ Learn Go later if you're planning to work on tools, servers, or real-world deployments of your AI/simulation tech.
❌ Skip for now if you're still climbing the mountain of C++/CUDA and want to master simulation + AI backend development.

✅ Reasons You Should Learn Go
    1. You Plan to Work in Cloud Systems or Industrial Platforms
        Go dominates in cloud infrastructure, IoT backends, and instrument control services (e.g., telemetry collectors, device managers).
        It’s used by companies like Google, Uber, Docker, Cloudflare, and HashiCorp.
        📦 Great for: building microservices, REST APIs, device data pipelines, or simulation control layers.

    2. You Want Simpler Alternatives to C++ for Concurrency
        Go's concurrency model (goroutines, channels) is clean and lightweight.
        Easier to write safe concurrent code compared to C++ or even Python async.
        💡 Ideal for real-time sensor data handling, robotic coordination, or CFD/AI simulation orchestration.

    3. You Might Build or Maintain Infrastructure Tools
        If you ever write tools for:
            Code generation
            Simulation runners
            Distributed pipelines
            Internal CLIs or servers
            Go is excellent for those.

❌ Reasons You Might Not Need Go (Right Now)
    1. You’re Deep into Numerical Computing / HPC / CUDA
        Go is not designed for high-performance computing:
            No GPU support
            No SIMD
            Weak numerical libraries compared to C++/Python

        If your projects center on simulation, CFD, or GPU acceleration, Go adds little value.

    2. You’re Still Investing in Core C++/CUDA/Ast/AI Skills
        If you're juggling CUDA, C++, Python, and numerical physics already, adding Go now may be distracting — especially since its use cases don't overlap directly.