ahaks...
for a mathematician a simpler answer is n*(n+1)/2
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 1:57 PM, darXness darXness <darxl...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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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