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Math Skills For Programmers — Necessary Or Not?
An anonymous reader writes "Currently, the nature of most programming work is such that you don't really need math skills to get by or even to do well; after all, linear algebra is no help when building database-driven websites. However, Skorks contends that if you want to do truly interesting work in the software development field, math skills are essential, and furthermore will become increasingly important as we are forced to work with ever larger data sets (making math-intensive algorithm analysis skills a priority)."
do I have the level of understanding with all of Kelper's Laws and bits to change them to what I want for my game? Nope.
You needed to change that bit for your game?
That would be the math nerd... the one who knows how to multiply.
There's more to commercial coding than CRUD work, young Skywalker. This kernel API documentation was your father's, but now I pass it on to you.
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In a world where people contribute an ostentatious $0.02 to a discussion, you are contributing 0.02c. Your humility amazes me sir!
That, or you're just incredibly stingy. ;-)
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.
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My people skills would give your math skills a wedgie.
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He's contributing 5 995 849.16 m/s, which is much faster than the max speed of your car, sir.
You can stick with your opinions. I will stick with the facts.
I think that's a bit too complex. You need to dumb it down a little.
Thog no grok means code no work when you gone.
Now that's funny.
I had a professor who said it like this:
Math is the only pure science
Physics is chunky math
Chemistry is wet physics
Biology is gooey chemistry
(or something like that)
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Bah! If it works on my machine, my work is done.
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So anecdotally then, should we assume that the best programmers would be those who didn't even make it to high school?
Susie: "Yeah, that's it. You're too smart for the class."
Calvin: "Believe it, lady! You know how Einstein got bad grades when he was a kid? Well, mine are even worse!"
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You choose 'quicksort' because it says 'quick' on the label. Your data is mostly sorted already, so it should be really fast, right?
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