Re: Dumbing down?
- From: Tamas Papp <tkpapp@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 19:20:19 -0400
Jeff Rollin <jeffrey.rollin@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
In the last episode, on Thursday 24 May 2007 21:00, Ken Tilton wrote:
Jeff Rollin wrote:
A friend (who should know better than I) and myself both agree that an
understanding of maths is necessary to be able to program.
So why do so many introductory textbooks insist that it isn't?
Sorry, point of information: you and your friend agreeing on X has
exactly what power over X's truth?
hth,kt
Heh. As I've already had to admit, that was a lousy metric to have started
out with.
Indeed. "Math" is quite broad. I don't think a programmer needs to
know any differential topology ;-)
This is not strictly "math", but I found it quite useful when
programming numerical algorithms:
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic
www.validlab.com/goldberg/paper.pdf
A better question might be, "what are the arguments for and against a good
understanding of maths being necessary to programming?
Time is a scarce resource. Math might be useful, but is it more
useful as the same amount of time spent on programming per se?
Diminishing returns kick in quite early.
Tamas
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