Don't just repeat the same things that didn't work for you in high school. If you had a hard time with textbooks and assigned problems in high school, you'll probably still find it frustrating today.
I'd suggest that you find yourself a project that you will be really interested in that requires math skills a bit beyond your abilities. Learn the skills that you need to accomplish this project, and then pick something else that will stretch you further. Use textbooks and online references to accomplish these tasks -- not as the tasks themselves.
If you're a programmer you probably won't have much difficulty coming up with projects to stretch your skills. Computer graphics, machine learning or science applications (among others) offer plenty of opportunities to use advanced mathematics.
If you can't come up with a project that you'd like to work on then you might ask yourself if you really need (or perhaps want?) to better your math skills.
My 13-year-old brother recently decided that he might like to learn how to program. He has been fascinated by computers for a long time -- mostly due to computer games.
I've been programming since I was 8 -- about 18 years now -- and I started with BASIC on a VIC 20. I don't think BASIC is the way to go these days, so when I started to teach my brother I thought first of Python. Python has a lot of advantages for beginners and is an excellent tool for teaching programming. It works great for procedural, object oriented or even functional styles.
So far he loves it! At first we were using Dive Into Python as a guide, but he wanted something that he could handle more on his own. Dive Into Python is much better for programmers looking to pick up Python. After a bit of searching I settled on Michael Dawson's Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner. I gave him that book for Christmas and he has loved it!
The cool thing about Dawson's book is that the example programs are all games. It starts really simple (guessing games and the like) but by the end of the book Dawson has you using graphics and animation (thanks to Python's great package support). If you're looking to help someone learn programming then I'd have to really recommend Python as a start and a book like Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner as a guide.
Hmmm... I have never seen this problem, but then again I've always just opted out of Apple's announcements and special offers as I don't like people stuffing my email box.
I do seem to recall, however, that in some earlier versions of Mail.app there were rules for highlighting mail from Apple. I don't see those in the latest version of Mail, but maybe that's because I deleted them as soon as I discovered that they were there.
- Nåff
Lindon. Just because Provo is nearby doesn't mean that we're ok if you get the two confused.
I mean, c'mon... Lindon is like a 15 minute drive from Provo.;)
I have a LAMY cp1 tri pen that I really love. I even have stylus tips for it.
The best place I have found to get ink for my LAMY is Executive Essentials.
Judging from what I've read elsewhere, the submitter may have interpreted the article a bit wrong. It's not so much that MS and Intel (also mentioned in the article) want to have the WinModem equivilent of 802.11, but that they want to make the access points cheaper by providing a software solution.
Apple has had a similar product, the "Software Base Station," available for Mac OS 9 for quite some time!
See this (much better) article for details.
The C++ Programming Language -- Bjarne Stroustrup (ISBN 0-201-70073-5) The C++ Standard Library -- Nicolai M. Josuttis (ISBN 0-201-37926-0) The Mythical Man-Month -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. (ISBN 0-201-83595-9) Godel, Escher, Back: An Eternal Golden Briad -- Douglas R. Hofstadter (ISBN 0-394-75682-7)
Forte is good, but the project that actually produces Forte, Netbeans, has an even better (though nearly the same) IDE. Check out the Netbeans website and get the latest version.
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Don't just repeat the same things that didn't work for you in high school. If you had a hard time with textbooks and assigned problems in high school, you'll probably still find it frustrating today.
I'd suggest that you find yourself a project that you will be really interested in that requires math skills a bit beyond your abilities. Learn the skills that you need to accomplish this project, and then pick something else that will stretch you further. Use textbooks and online references to accomplish these tasks -- not as the tasks themselves.
If you're a programmer you probably won't have much difficulty coming up with projects to stretch your skills. Computer graphics, machine learning or science applications (among others) offer plenty of opportunities to use advanced mathematics.
If you can't come up with a project that you'd like to work on then you might ask yourself if you really need (or perhaps want?) to better your math skills.
Good luck!
My 13-year-old brother recently decided that he might like to learn how to program. He has been fascinated by computers for a long time -- mostly due to computer games.
I've been programming since I was 8 -- about 18 years now -- and I started with BASIC on a VIC 20. I don't think BASIC is the way to go these days, so when I started to teach my brother I thought first of Python. Python has a lot of advantages for beginners and is an excellent tool for teaching programming. It works great for procedural, object oriented or even functional styles.
So far he loves it! At first we were using Dive Into Python as a guide, but he wanted something that he could handle more on his own. Dive Into Python is much better for programmers looking to pick up Python. After a bit of searching I settled on Michael Dawson's Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner. I gave him that book for Christmas and he has loved it!
The cool thing about Dawson's book is that the example programs are all games. It starts really simple (guessing games and the like) but by the end of the book Dawson has you using graphics and animation (thanks to Python's great package support). If you're looking to help someone learn programming then I'd have to really recommend Python as a start and a book like Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner as a guide.
Hmmm... I have never seen this problem, but then again I've always just opted out of Apple's announcements and special offers as I don't like people stuffing my email box.
I do seem to recall, however, that in some earlier versions of Mail.app there were rules for highlighting mail from Apple. I don't see those in the latest version of Mail, but maybe that's because I deleted them as soon as I discovered that they were there.
- Nåff
> mental midgits from Provo.
;)
Lindon. Just because Provo is nearby doesn't mean that we're ok if you get the two confused.
I mean, c'mon... Lindon is like a 15 minute drive from Provo.
I have a LAMY cp1 tri pen that I really love. I even have stylus tips for it.
The best place I have found to get ink for my LAMY is Executive Essentials.
Just calls (more) attention to the list so people will know it exists and sign up.
Thanks for the iTMS info, but I believe we were talking about plain-ol' iTunes here. You know... doing our own encoding. -Nåff
No offense, but is it really that hard to provide a link?
All of the tests at the link in the parent worked on my XP box (all patches as of today) running IE 6 (6.0.2600)
Judging from what I've read elsewhere, the submitter may have interpreted the article a bit wrong. It's not so much that MS and Intel (also mentioned in the article) want to have the WinModem equivilent of 802.11, but that they want to make the access points cheaper by providing a software solution.
Apple has had a similar product, the "Software Base Station," available for Mac OS 9 for quite some time!
See this (much better) article for details.
The C++ Programming Language -- Bjarne Stroustrup (ISBN 0-201-70073-5)
The C++ Standard Library -- Nicolai M. Josuttis (ISBN 0-201-37926-0)
The Mythical Man-Month -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. (ISBN 0-201-83595-9)
Godel, Escher, Back: An Eternal Golden Briad -- Douglas R. Hofstadter (ISBN 0-394-75682-7)
Forte is good, but the project that actually produces Forte, Netbeans, has an even better (though nearly the same) IDE. Check out the Netbeans website and get the latest version.