As a math person who later studied some grad-level computer science, my
personal experience was that the stuff I found easy in CS was exactly what
the CS students got hung up on. So the aspects of CS involving "higher
math" (Hi Cary!) can definitely be challenging for those who don't already
have a
:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Al
Matthews
Sent: 27 February 2013 14:28
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Math or the other math?
+1 mostly to the thread
Programming seems to me -- just me here -- stratified like any other
profession, in particular by access or lack of acces
+1 mostly to the thread
Programming seems to me -- just me here -- stratified like any other
profession, in particular by access or lack of access to computer science
within software dev.
There are other factors. But computer science seems now heavily invested
in math.
--
Al Matthews
Software D
You mean discrete mathematics?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_mathematics
I always kicked myself for not taking that course at high school (UK readers, I
mean secondary school) but at least I picked up the basics during my physics
MSci (a lot of physics these days is coding).
Cheers,
m
