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Forget Math to Become a Great Computer Scientist?

Posted by Zonk on from the this-is-why-i-wasn't-a-good-programmer dept.

Coryoth writes "A new book is trying to claim that computer science is better off without maths. The author claims that early computing pioneers such as Von Neumann and Alan Turing imposed their pure mathematics background on the field, and that this has hobbled computer science ever since. He rejects the idea of algorithms as a good way to think about software. Can you really do computer science well without mathematics? And would you want to?"

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  1. Wow, women can now become computer scientists by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They are terrible at math.

  2. Re:As if computer science wasn't stunted enough by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Python is a better language

    That is a dubious statement about a language which uses indentation to group statements. Even Basic isn't that silly.

  3. Re:Anti-Intellectualism by Arapahoe+Moe · · Score: 0, Troll

    It has been quite some time since I've seen such an pretentious verbalization of word vomit. Please continue with your number worship, Pythagoras, and stop trying to be Shakespeare because, to put it mildly, your editorial musings are shit.

  4. Re:Anti-Intellectualism by Arapahoe+Moe · · Score: 0, Troll
    I used the literary device of allusion to criticize your exaltation of mathematics and your defiant elitism. However, this is Slashdot and I probably should have just called you names ....

    .... but since you asked for it. The "ignorant mob" says take your elitist nonsense and shove it up your ass.

  5. Re:wahay! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "I don't know where Apple finds it's GUI guys" Gay bars.