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05-02-2008, 02:48 PM
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|  Maths I'm not really enthusiastic about maths. 19 here. |
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05-02-2008, 02:54 PM
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| Are you really from England? ...anyway, it depends on what you want to do in the programming field. You can certainly make a career in programming with nothing more than basic arithmetic knowledge. However, there are certainly programming careers out there where it would not only help to know advanced mathematics... it's expected.
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05-02-2008, 03:12 PM
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| Yep. Btw, I was just banned from VBdotnetforums.com I believe the reason why was, I posted a link to this place about someone saying VB might be discontinued by MS. http://vbdotnetforums.com/showthread.php?t=26435 |
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When you get deeper into the design of non-trivial algorithms, knowledge of discrete mathematics is enormously helpful. But mathematics as a whole is too general to even define, much less say that knowing "maths" is a basic requirement. Computer science began as an outgrowth of mathematics, and is still considered by some to be just a specific kind of math. But computer science is not the same thing as programming. | |
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| I looked at your link and I'm speecheless
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05-02-2008, 03:25 PM
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| The topic was obviously deleted. So I posted the 64 topic. |
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