snakenobi said:
i like maths and am very good at it just wanted to know how apps and code come in contact with it |
It really depends on what type of applications you are writing. I'm a web developer and rarely use math outside of our invoicing system. Graphics programmers and hardware engineers use math probably more than anyone else. Most other disciplines are somewhere in between.
And I agree with vlad about bad programmers. I've got some horror stories to tell. For instance, I took over a project from an idiot a few years ago. Part of the site generated reports for users to view. These reports were essentially articles written by health experts on various topics, like heart disease, or medications/supplements/herbal remedies. Each paragraph of the report was its own record in the database. The original developer created a page with nested ASP.NET controls that eventually ran up to 5 levels deep. At each level he would re-request the data from the SQL server. Finally at the 5th level he would output the paragraph. When you requested a report, it could take up to 10-12 seconds to load the page. After looking through the trace data, I saw that his method was causing in some cases over 300 requests to the SQL server. I re-wrote the page to get all the data in one call and the reports now load in less than a second. If we had actually released the reports as he wrote them, it would have completely crippled any server we could have put it on.
That's incompetence.
