math n CS...
IMHO,without math,programming cant go to the next
part.if,else,while,and most of the programming part is derived from
math.and we actually learn that in school.but under Math,not
programming.slowly,we implement in our program.without we knowing,we
actually doint math.just pick some of the code:
while(i = 0;i<5;i++){
i;
}
see?we actually doing plus operation there.:D
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 1:26 PM, E A Faisal <eafai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not formally trained on CS. All my programming knowledge is self taught.
> So this is my opinion.
>
> Programming is not solely an art. It's both art and science. I experienced
> countless of times where knowing maths would be extremely useful. While it's
> true that you can program something without any understanding of math but I
> learned the hard way that to implement something efficiently and of high
> quality you still need maths. I once created a middleware that helped to
> bridge between a system with Hylafax which I needed to write a scheduler to
> poll fax status from Hylafax. My first implementation was straight forward,
> without any thought of mathematical model. It worked but it ate up resources
> needlessly. Though it didn't give any problem but it's not elegant because
> it wasted on computing resource which I might need in the future. Eventually
> I managed to find a mathematical model to implement a good scheduler - yes!
> math to the rescue.
>
> Still not buying on the importance of math? Consider yourself doing
> programming and need to choose a data structure. Without good math
> understanding how can you decide which data structure would be best on a
> given program? Want to analyse your newly and cool algorithm? Who you gonna
> call? Math, of course. Even when you code bussiness app, your business logic
> is basically a representation of mathematical model.
>
> Not to discourage new programmer, you can still code with knowing math in
> depth. But, IMHO as you progress into a more competent programmer you better
> catch up with math again. It certainly helps. Math has helped me, I'm sure
> it's useful to others too.
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Harisfazillah Jamel
> <linuxmalay...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> We really need math in CS. They way Computer engineers and software
>> developers think are like mathematician. All are numbers.
>>
>> We codes in 1 and 0. if then else. all can be calculate and formula
>> can be created.
>>
>> and one thing.
>>
>> Computer programming is an art :)
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:40 AM, sweemeng ng <swees...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > http://ocirs.com/2011/03/11/computer-science-education-and-math/
>> > based on this article. Actually I kinda agree with the author. It
>> > depends on
>> > the goal, if aim for research YES, if for industry, maybe no
>> > what you guys think
>>
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