Perhaps some of you may find of interest this thread:
"Do CS grads need calculus?"
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When I'm confronted with questions of this nature, my favorite analogy is
to physical fitness
Treadmill? How often does your job entail running non-stop for 30-45
minutes without actually going anywhere?
Lifting weights? How often does your job entail picking up heavy objects,
then putting them b
Stephen Ronan writes:
> Perhaps some of you may find of interest this thread:
> "Do CS grads need calculus?"
> http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/2015/04/sort/time_rev/page/1/
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I haven't needed calculus in my jobs either, but then I've neve
Math... definitely. Calculus? Probably not.
Programmers will definitely benefit from learning algebra, geometry,
graph theory, and combinatorics. Maybe some probability & statistics
too. Any of these subjects can teach you to be rigorous and precise as
well as calculus can.
Personally, I haven't
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Stephen Ronan wrote:
> "Do CS grads need calculus?"
Farber's IP list is always amusing, a better rabbit hole than TV Tropes.
What do we mean by Computer Science? A degree to qualify one to enter a
Doctoral program so one can teach in such a program? Or a deg
A real computer SCIENCE program - one that includes subjects like
theory of computing - certainly needs calculus. The theory of
computing is quite mathematical and calculus comes into play. A
calculus requirement makes sense.
A program that is focused on coding and software architecture, as the
ma
Daniel Barrett writes:
> Math... definitely. Calculus? Probably not.
>
> Programmers will definitely benefit from learning algebra, geometry,
> graph theory, and combinatorics. Maybe some probability & statistics
How do write a statistics text book without any calculus?
Like this?
The defi
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey
wrote:
> A real computer SCIENCE program - one that includes subjects like
> theory of computing - certainly needs calculus. The theory of
> computing is quite mathematical and calculus comes into play. A
> calculus requirement makes sense.
>
On April 7, 2015, Mike Small wrote:
>How do write a statistics text book without any calculus?
Yeah, that's why I said "maybe" probability and statistics. :-)
I haven't needed calculus for three decades as a software developer
(YMMV), except during a school assignment to write a LISP program that
On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 11:11:32 -0400 (EDT)
Stephen Ronan wrote:
> "Do CS grads need calculus?"
> http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/2015/04/sort/time_rev/page/1/
As linux/unix programmers, many of us have
to deal with zombie processes and,
as Colin Adams has shown in "Zombies and Calculus"
Daniel Barrett writes:
> I haven't needed calculus for three decades as a software developer
> (YMMV), except during a school assignment to write a LISP program that
> calculates derivatives. That was a fun assignment BTW. Really drove
> home why LISP rocks.
Which experience would be closed off t
I agree most CS majors will never 'need' calculus in their direct work.
Learning Calculus, like philosophy, history, etc, makes for a well rounded
education that CS, and other majors need. It helps round out the thinking
process.
This is from someone that was a CS major. I had calculus, and surp
Stephen Ronan posted:
> Perhaps some of you may find of interest this thread:
> "Do CS grads need calculus?"
> http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/2015/04/sort/time_rev/page/1/
Interesting thread, on a forum operated by Dave Farber. That's a name
familiar to me; here's a list of coincidenc
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On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 12:12 AM, John Abreau wrote:
> Doesn't do 78s; it only plays at 33.3 and 45 rpm. And the needle would
> p
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Mike Small wrote:
> Daniel Barrett writes:
>...
> was. Just cheesy. If CS programs do a really pretty discrete math course
> and/or other math courses I don't know about and do it as a proper
> university course, great.
Tufts has an Undergraduate Discrete Math cou
John says "I have to say that I have never in a successful 40-year programming
career ever needed to know calculus."
To which I respond: I have never, in my career, needed my degree. But I'm
glad to have it.
And do CS grads need Acting I, or Music Theory I? Those were the free
electives tha
Thanks! That looks like a good starting point.
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Steven Santos
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> Director
> Simply Circus, Inc.
> 86 Los Angeles Street
> Newton, MA 02458
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> P: 617-527-0667
> F: 617-934-1870
> E: ste...@simplycircus.com
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> > Having just decided that I'm moving my operations to Linode, I'm building
> > out a script to install a base Ubunt
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