Or if your like me programming will actually help you learn math.
It was about 4 days before my ACT test... and I was looking on the official ACT site to see the example "practice" tests... and it had trig on it... I hadn't taken trig...
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So I learned OpenGL and made a 3d first person style engine. On the ACT, trig was my highest math score... go figure!
I've always been good at math. That might be a help with programming, I've always found it quite simple.
Lol. It doesn't matter what age you areOh and is 14 a good age to learn C++?
And is c++ a good first codeing lang.?
Not to try and show off (wich I know I am not at all)I'm 10 and I haven't gave my age a thought while learning C++.
My head hurts.
lol I have. But that is good.
And never knew it could help so much in math!
14's fine. I started at 13 - although with Pascal - then moved to Java, then C, then C++ in the next year or two. It would seem to me that C++ is fine to start with.
I found that I didn't learn so much math from programming, but it was kind of cool to see the parallels between programming and math... for example, proof by induction is sort of like recursionActually, math helped with programming a lot more than the other way around. I would've given up on rotating bitmaps if it wasn't for trig knowledge, but looking at rotation tutorials wouldn't have taught me trig. That's also why I'm dragging my feet about going into 3D stuff. We've barely mentioned the 3rd dimension in math, and I still have no idea what matrices are used for other than simple reductions that you can do just as easily without matrices...
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Well, maybe for me it wasnt so much that I learned math FROM programming.. its just I learned alot BECAUSE of programming.
lol that makes sence.
