Hello, I'm a second year student from industrial electronic and automatic engineering. I like electronics and I'm partially enjoying my university degree.
Lately I've been interested in simulate software and algebraic calculus software.
We're not taught any wt the university. We only used a little but of psim a simulate software initially created to simulate switching supplies converters, etc and that now has evolved a little bit and has more uses (according to my teachers). I managed to learned it quite well as it's not a difficult program (at least that's what I think).
I was interested in learning some other program tools that might be useful in the future. Whether it's for work or useful for myself on my projects. And whether it's for simulating and checking circuits or to solve algebraic problems.
One or two of my favourite books where I try to learn electronics and circuits from, talk about pspice and matlab. I also heard about using python to solve equations, laplace, etc. Are they recommended, used in the industry professionally, worth learning how to use them? Are there better options that should be considered?
During course I don't really have much time left to dedicate to something like that with the work from university and music... so I'd like to decide for 1 or 2 (preferible one simulator and a algebraic/plotter one) and learn it myself during this summer break, since we're not really taught any at my university.
I gladly accept any suggestions/corrections/advise

Sorry if bad English or terms and thanks for your time!