As someone who I assume has a deep understanding of Mathematica, any chance you can recommend the best tutorial/resource to get going with effective Mathematica use?
I've been trying to plug Mathematica into my workflow in place of a number of tools I'm more familiar with and I keep running into issues where I either try to do things in a very un-Mathematica way or the default behaviors I assume of the program are wildly incorrect (e.g. Thread operates in the reverse order I would expect, importing an extracting a column from a csv file seems clunky, wrote up a worksheet with a number of E variables with subscripts only to find out its treated like Exp[], etc.)
There seems to be a wonderfully large amount of available training and tutorials all over the web but I don't know where to start to most effectively acclimate to Mathematica.
The help is voluminous and really quite wonderful (all the examples are executable). Just go to the documentation center and explore until you get tired. And repeat a couple hundred times. It's like reading Wikipedia.
I've been trying to plug Mathematica into my workflow in place of a number of tools I'm more familiar with and I keep running into issues where I either try to do things in a very un-Mathematica way or the default behaviors I assume of the program are wildly incorrect (e.g. Thread operates in the reverse order I would expect, importing an extracting a column from a csv file seems clunky, wrote up a worksheet with a number of E variables with subscripts only to find out its treated like Exp[], etc.)
There seems to be a wonderfully large amount of available training and tutorials all over the web but I don't know where to start to most effectively acclimate to Mathematica.