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hentai_11 said:
snakenobi said:
ghettoglamour said:
websites are not very complicated to program, any programmer with the minimum of skills in programming (and in maths, if you ask) should be able to make a simple website.

In fact, the difficulty of programming such websites as social networks, online shops, intranets for enterprises, etc. is the content of it.
Great programming skills are often less needed than understanding what(and how) the people that are going to use your applications want and need it to do.
Another important thing which hasn't been mentioned yet the ability to work in team, since almost every application nowadays is made by several people who actually need to work and discuss with each other. To me, this is way more important than maths skills.


yeah i don't want to be developing programming new technology but but programming products and services

 

can you tell me if sites like yahoo and facebook needed any complex programming

 

and who does the encryption on most sites around the world,for that complex maths would be needed as far as i know

You should watch the film "The Social Network". 

what about it?

 

i have seen it



I think it all depends on what you are doing.

Initially i applied to a university to do computer science...but considering that that specific university requires you to do a physics and maths course i decided not to do it. I probably could have handled it but i sure as hell would not have enjoyed it. Im currently studying at a technical university doing development software, in this course we focus on programming applications, mobile applications, websites, as well as databases and design. Computer science goes deeper than this and at the end of a computer science course ul be able to code a operating system (kinda). A lecture of mine also mentioned that game developement requires quite a bit of maths.

So id imagine the deeper you go the more mathematical it becomes, basic applications however are not so heavy on maths. And sometimes even if it you will cope with it. I find that some people who absolutely hated maths, love to program and are very good at it.

For the type of applications that you mentioned as well as websites i think you will be fine. However some universities require you to do some hectic physics and maths which you then need to pass.



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snakenobi said:
nightsurge said:
Faxanadu said:
Nothing very serious.

Only Algebra, Analysis and Numerics.

Wrong. You will want to be good at Calculus, Linear Algebra (much more complicated than normal algebra, don't let it fool you), Discrete, and depending on what you're doing, Physics classes could be helpful.

Unless you think those are all easy, but at my university they were insanely difficult :S

And as ghettolamour pointed out, it really depends on WHAT you will be programming and to what level. I'm focusing more on software engineering, AI, maybe graphical items in the future, etc.

i can still cope with calculus and linear algebra but physics is out of reach

Why would you be okay with calculus but not physics? Is it real world application that worries you?

If you are going to get a degree in CS then you have to take quite a bit of math and physics as well, but if you just want to learn about programming its probably not as crucial. However being good at math/logic is helpful.



You will need to put a lot of effort into math if you want to succed at university level programming.
And you don't need to know all the formulas to program well - you need to think mathematically.

Generally from my experience - people who are weak at math will have extreme problems with abstract math (discrete, logic) and those are most importnt.



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Asking "How much math is involved in Computer programming?" is kind of like asking "How much of an understanding of music is needed to become a musician?" ...

Computer programming is an mathematical field and, while you can get by without much of an education in mathematics, if you find that you struggle with the abstract concepts in mathematics you will probably have difficulty with even the simplest of programs.



wilco said:
snakenobi said:
nightsurge said:
Faxanadu said:
Nothing very serious.

Only Algebra, Analysis and Numerics.

Wrong. You will want to be good at Calculus, Linear Algebra (much more complicated than normal algebra, don't let it fool you), Discrete, and depending on what you're doing, Physics classes could be helpful.

Unless you think those are all easy, but at my university they were insanely difficult :S

And as ghettolamour pointed out, it really depends on WHAT you will be programming and to what level. I'm focusing more on software engineering, AI, maybe graphical items in the future, etc.

i can still cope with calculus and linear algebra but physics is out of reach

Why would you be okay with calculus but not physics? Is it real world application that worries you?

If you are going to get a degree in CS then you have to take quite a bit of math and physics as well, but if you just want to learn about programming its probably not as crucial. However being good at math/logic is helpful.

i understand physics but not literal physics things what they are teaching out in my school



Shinobi-san said:
I think it all depends on what you are doing.

Initially i applied to a university to do computer science...but considering that that specific university requires you to do a physics and maths course i decided not to do it. I probably could have handled it but i sure as hell would not have enjoyed it. Im currently studying at a technical university doing development software, in this course we focus on programming applications, mobile applications, websites, as well as databases and design. Computer science goes deeper than this and at the end of a computer science course ul be able to code a operating system (kinda). A lecture of mine also mentioned that game developement requires quite a bit of maths.

So id imagine the deeper you go the more mathematical it becomes, basic applications however are not so heavy on maths. And sometimes even if it you will cope with it. I find that some people who absolutely hated maths, love to program and are very good at it.

For the type of applications that you mentioned as well as websites i think you will be fine. However some universities require you to do some hectic physics and maths which you then need to pass.

the thing you are doing is the exact thing i want to do

and yes i can do maths and physics but i am not going to enjoy it like you said about urself



I'm sure that at the begging any Computer Science curse you will have classes of Discrete Mathematics

This book was the one adopted by my teachers in the 1st semester of my CC course:


By the way Discrete Mathematics was one of my favorites classes at the university, it's fun how Mathematics can be amazing.



To be honest while computer programming itself doesn't always require much in the way of mathematics it does require exactly the same sort of thinking. If you struggle with maths you're likely to struggle with programming.