High school algebra wasn't too bad, geometry i need help from my friends to "get it", trig & calculus i was lost completely. Now i use trig every day at work. I think if our teacher would of given us some real world use for it back then i probably would of had a better undestanding.I fucking loved math all through Algebra and even Geometry was okay. I hit Trig and said FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK that. Bye bye Computer Science degree.
I took Pre-calc and Business Calc and had no problem with either though. For whatever reason I just hated trig.
High school algebra wasn't too bad, geometry i need help from my friends to "get it", trig & calculus i was lost completely. Now i use trig every day at work. I think if our teacher would of given us some real world use for it back then i probably would of had a better undestanding.
Ive been meaning to ask a fellow CS major.... Did all the trig and calc 4 and all that shit really help much from a programming perspective?I was always strong in math and in the advanced classes. I took AP calc in highschool and got college credit for it and took Calc 2 my freshman year in college. I was a computer science major and the toughest math class I ever took was discrete math. However, that course was the "weed out" course in sophomore, and it was like intentionally made harder than it needed to be.
Looking back though, it wasn't really all about knowing derivatives, or memorizing all these equations, or any of that. I feel taking all this complex math just made me think in a different way and just helped me progress the way I can approach problems and think outside the box.
Like I said, it's not necessarily about the formulas or equations. It's a lot about developing a mindset that will help with critical thinking and figure out how to solve complex problems.Ive been meaning to ask a fellow CS major.... Did all the trig and calc 4 and all that shit really help much from a programming perspective?
I always thought the math courses in conjunction with CS courses was a bit overblown.
Don't get me wrong I understand the use of math in general with programming... But I can't say I ever saw trig elements when I've programmed... And although I'm not a CS major I've done programming for personal and professional work a handful of times.
This is exactly right. I speak english, put the problem in english and I can solve it (if it's easy).Sadly, I've always wanted to lern math...but no one has ever been able to make me...'rithmatic I'm fine....but as soon as you add squiggly lines and letters...it turns into some obscure dialect...Martian, I suspect...and I go blank.
I was always strong in math and in the advanced classes. I took AP calc in highschool and got college credit for it and took Calc 2 my freshman year in college. I was a computer science major and the toughest math class I ever took was discrete math. However, that course was the "weed out" course in sophomore, and it was like intentionally made harder than it needed to be.
Looking back though, it wasn't really all about knowing derivatives, or memorizing all these equations, or any of that. I feel taking all this complex math just made me think in a different way and just helped me progress the way I can approach problems and think outside the box.
Ive been meaning to ask a fellow CS major.... Did all the trig and calc 4 and all that shit really help much from a programming perspective?
I always thought the math courses in conjunction with CS courses was a bit overblown.
Don't get me wrong I understand the use of math in general with programming... But I can't say I ever saw trig elements when I've programmed... And although I'm not a CS major I've done programming for personal and professional work a handful of times.
Said no one ever. Stats are a poor tool for the most important aspect of math, estimating.The vast majority of people would be better served by a mathematics curriculum in which the end game was mastering statistics instead of calculus. Calculus is essential for hard science and engineering. Statistics is valuable for everyone.
I'm not sure what relevance that has to the quote of mine you quoted.Whut? My comp sci degree basically came with a math major as well.
As in how did you take less math than me?I'm not sure what relevance that has to the quote of mine you quoted.
I never said how much math I took, nor did you.As in how did you take less math than me?
I said I practically got a major in math as well.I never said how much math I took, nor did you.
Whut? My comp sci degree basically came with a math major as well.
Master kriging for fun and prophet.Bump
Should study during the coronavirus pandemic.
Arranged in order your suppose to learn.
1.Pre-Algebra
2.Algebra
3.Geometry
4.Trigonometry
5.Pre-Calculus
6.Calculus
Hey, is there a list of English classes too? Which level teaches the difference between "your" and "you're"? While the rest of us is a-learning to cipher our gazintas like good little Jethros you can bone up on your grammar.
When we grew up it was like this for the GT kids:
4th grade: Pre Algebra
5th grade: Algebra I
6th grade: Algebra II
7th grade: Geometry
8th grade: Trigonometry
9th grade: Pre Calculus
10th grade: Calculus I
11th grade: Calculus II
12th grade: Advanced Calculus / Multi Variable Calculus
Of course nowadays you have to attend college and get at least a bachelor's degree to be essentially even with what a high school diploma was in the 1970s.
And another thing, arithmetic ≠ mathematics!
There's something to be said for that. I've taken all mentioned, have a degree in math. I took one stat course at the U, Stat 101 or something, aced it. Yes, very useful and I wouldn't say it doesn't belong as #7 on the list. It was a long time ago, I don't recall a lot of stat. But some concepts have stuck.The vast majority of people would be better served by a mathematics curriculum in which the end game was mastering statistics instead of calculus. Calculus is essential for hard science and engineering. Statistics is valuable for everyone.
Bumping in case anybody needs this right now