Wouldn't that describe any computer program?
Now you see why state machines are important!!
L.
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How about a concrete example?
For some reason I once did a little program to convert between RGB and HSB.
It's on my home site, and every now and again I get a query like this one:
Hello,
I just found your web page with the Java [Javascript, actually. TG] applet
that converts between
RGB and
People in this thread (me included!) have been talking about Maths and programming,
but a CS course is more than programming - there is a lot of theory as well and the
Maths that gets taught is really so that people can cope with things like formal
methods and analysis of algorithms and
I forgot automata theory. You really need to have a good grasp of
the whole state machine idea to solve many problems successfully.
Can you give an example of this?
Well, any situation where you are looking for some kind of input that
then determines the next thing that you do is in effect
I think Lindsay' answer is more along the lines of
'if you ask a man with a hammer to solve a problem he
will use a hammer'. That is, Lindsay approaches things
from an academic point of view.
To quote many politicians I refute this!!. In fact I don't approach
programming from an academic
2nd place after automata techniques for me would
probably be hashing, in all its various forms and
purposes. Not much of an underlying theory there,
but having a visceral feel for a variety of hash algorithms
and their uses is something I seem to reach for on
a regular basis.
Funnily
Umm, not true at all - a lot of the Colossus stuff could be
described
as non-quantative processing, even though its basis was largely
mathematical.
What is the Colossus stuff?
The Enigma cryptanalysis in WWII which is essentially statistical
pattern matching (he said glibly) across
At 10:22 AM +0100 9/10/02, Lindsay Marshall wrote:
I forgot automata theory. You really need to have a good grasp of
the whole state machine idea to solve many problems successfully.
Can you give an example of this?
Well, any situation where you are looking for some kind of input that
Computers were originally developed by
mathematicians, of course (which explains why they're called
computers), but as far as I know it was the psychologists
Simon and Newell who first thought of using them for
non-quantitative information processing.
Umm, not true at all - a lot of
I would like to know what kind of mathematics are important to know
for a programmer or computer scientist.
Don't know about a CS, but I can give you one
programmer data point.
so I did not take a lot of math courses.
Though never much of a mathematician, I took courses
up through calc and
I have found areas of knowledge that were of fairly general
use in a variety of programming situations, but they were
usually not mathematics. For example, an understanding of
automata is something I've relied on over and over again.
I forgot automata theory. You really need to have a good
At 7:38 PM +0100 9/9/02, Lindsay Marshall wrote:
I have found areas of knowledge that were of fairly general
use in a variety of programming situations, but they were
usually not mathematics. For example, an understanding of
automata is something I've relied on over and over again.
I
So I have not yet encountered a situation where my background was
insufficient.
I'm betting that when you do, it will require information specific
to the problem domain that you will be unlikely to have encountered
in formal study, though some formal study might make it easier
to locate and
At 7:38 PM +0100 9/9/02, Lindsay Marshall wrote:
I have found areas of knowledge that were of fairly general
use in a variety of programming situations, but they were
usually not mathematics. For example, an understanding of
automata is something I've relied on over and over again.
I
I forgot automata theory. You really need to have a good grasp of
the whole state machine idea to solve many problems successfully.
Can you give an example of this?
Most recent example for me was a web site
implemented as a set of non-identical processes
distributed across multiple machines. A
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