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  • Re: Math and programming

    From nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Thursday, April 24, 2025 22:55:38
    On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 19:19:12 -0700
    "Digital Man" (VERT) <VERT!Digital.Man@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:

    Re: Math and programming
    By: Matthew Munson to All on Sun Apr 06 2025 06:31 pm

    should i try and self teach myself some mathematics so i could
    understand programming or can one program without the need for
    Calculus?

    Most programming does not invovled much math and definitely not
    Caluclus.

    Some basic knowledge of order of operations helps plus a bit of stuff
    like a negative plus a negative is a positive, as in 8 - -8 = 16.
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  • From Jimmy Anderson@VERT to Dumas Walker on Saturday, May 03, 2025 15:48:57
    Dumas Walker wrote to MATTHEW MUNSON <=-

    should i try and self teach myself some mathematics so i could
    understand programming or can one program without the need for Calculus?

    I think if you are going to be programming for a system that is meant
    to do a lot of calculations *for* math or science, maybe. I programmed
    on systems that worked with taxes and child support payments for 27+
    years and had to at least have a grasp on basic math... addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, how to figure out a percentage, etc... but never used any higher math.

    If you are planning to program most anything else, a knowledge of basic math might help, but I am guessing you'd not need higher math, either.


    Someone mentioned Python - you can load libraries that will give
    you certain premade functions. There are math ones I know...


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  • From Bogomips@VERT to all on Tuesday, May 06, 2025 09:06:52
    Re: Math and programming
    By: Nightfox to Matthew Munson on Sun Apr 06 2025 07:07 pm

    should i try and self teach myself some mathematics so i could understand programming or can one program without the need for Calculus?

    You don't need to learn math in order to learn programming.

    Nightfox

    I just ordered Hello World from Ebay. I took it out of the library a few years ago and had fun with it. It's geared for kids and beginners.

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  • From Jimmy Anderson@VERT/PALANTIR to Bogomips on Wednesday, May 07, 2025 12:57:52
    Bogomips wrote to all <=-

    I just ordered Hello World from Ebay. I took it out of the library a
    few years ago and had fun with it. It's geared for kids and beginners.

    Cool name. :-)


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