If you want to be just another "programmer", then you don't need that much
of math, otherwise, yes math is important.
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Raja Iskandar Shah <rajaiskand...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> 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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