I wrote a book to help answer these questions: https://computationbook.com/ https://computationbook.com/. It won’t necessarily be right for you (e.g. the code e

I wrote a book to help answer these questions: https://computationbook.com/ https://computationbook.com/. It won’t necessarily be right for you (e.g. the code examples are in Ruby) but the sample chapter may help you to decide that for yourself.