> Then, comes another question, who here is actually solving the hard problem
> in CS that actually require advance maths.
>
>
1) Many bro many. Many of these people are just being low profile.
2) Math is important more than to solve hard problems. A good understanding
of math helps you to solve simple problems in the most elegant way.
Just an example, some programmers without a math background would take
1000 LoC to implement something that took a good coder who is good at math,
perhaps 100 LoC?
Just curious anyway
>
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 4:23 PM, zarul shahrin <zarulshah...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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