I actually have a fair bit of programming experience with C++ (I've been using it for years), including templates and Boost libraries. My thesis is going to require some signal processing work, but much more image analysis, and I use scipy all the time, so I feel pretty comfortable with that.
This is my first post on PF, but I've been lurking for a while, and I hope the collective wisdom of the community can help me out in a moment of quarter-life crisis.
I'm in the terminal stages of finishing up my Ph.D. at a respectable but not superlative institution. I've been working in...