I decided I need to understand math more to help me with programming.
Not to mention, eventually in my degree plan I will need to do it
anyway. How much math have people in this forum taken, and how much has
it helped thier programming?
Xeys
Jul 23 '05
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Matthias Kaeppler wrote:
Jon Bell wrote: I often tell people that if they hate "word problems" in math, they'll
probably hate programming, or at least the analysis/design stages, which
is arguably the most important part. After all, analyzing a problem and
designing a solution is basically a big "word problem". Usually with not
enough words, and with the given words being too vague. :-(
I don't know what a "word problem" is,
German: "Textaufgab e"
--
Karl Heinz Buchegger kb******@gascad .at
Karl Heinz Buchegger wrote: Matthias Kaeppler wrote:
Jon Bell wrote:
I often tell people that if they hate "word problems" in math, they'll
probably hate programming, or at least the analysis/design stages, which
is arguably the most important part. After all, analyzing a problem and
designing a solution is basically a big "word problem". Usually with not
enough words, and with the given words being too vague. :-(
I don't know what a "word problem" is,
German: "Textaufgab e"
Ah I see, thanks Karl. Did I say I don't know what a word problem is? Of
course I know what a word problem is ;-D
But actually I don't see the connection to programming. I /do/ see the
connection to the analysis/design stage of developing a piece of
software though (as you have already stated).
--
Matthias Kaeppler
In article <d3**********@j tbell.presby.ed u>,
Jon Bell <jt****@presby. edu> wrote: And in fact, we do find that students who do well in physics or math also
tend to do well in our programming courses, even though we don't actually
use much math in those courses, and practically no physics.
That's hardly surprising; even though the actual direct knowledge seldom
overlaps, the analytical thinking skills required are rather similar
for all three.
In general, it doesn't matter what type of math unless there's something
required for the type of programming you want to do, but studying math is
good mental training for computer programming (and programming for math).
dave
--
Dave Vandervies dj******@csclub .uwaterloo.ca
If you see me abusing the term in this way, you are hereby given
permission to wince inwardly.
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