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Math for Programmers? (pg. 3)
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| Trancealot |
Check this out if you like math and programming.
http://mathcs.holycross.edu/~spl/MATLAB/matlab.html
If you or someone you know did Engineering in College most likely you have used this program.
You can do this stuff also in C++(OPEN GL :whip: ), Cobol, fortran but takes extra long so they made it easier with MATLAB. |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by ziptnf
What a joke. I'd love to give someone a Calculus exam with no practice other than reading wikipedia and see how they do. |
I'm almost tempted to take you up on that. One month, fifteen minutes a day, and I have no prior experience in Calculus (other than helping an ex-girlfriend with an assignment in college statistics - and I don't even know if that counts.) |
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| ziptnf |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trancealot
Check this out if you like math and programming.
http://mathcs.holycross.edu/~spl/MATLAB/matlab.html
If you or someone you know did Engineering in College most likely you have used this program.
You can do this stuff also in C++(OPEN GL :whip: ), Cobol, fortran but takes extra long so they made it easier with MATLAB. |
MATLAB is good, as well as Maple. MiniTab is a good program for statistics too. |
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| djnitride |
I have been considering doing some of MITs open courseware as a programmer with no higher education. Not sure if I will really get anything out of it though :O
What is MIT OpenCourseWare?
MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT.
OCW is not an MIT education.
OCW does not grant degrees or certificates.
OCW does not provide access to MIT faculty.
Materials may not reflect entire content of the course.
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/ |
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| Watts |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
or prolog |
I wish I recommended this first. Good call. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
I've never tried Haskell, but I've dabbled in Scheme / Lisp.
Functional programming is neat in theory but pretty mind-bending. To me anyway. |
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| d-miurge |
| What kind of maths does an average American know right after high school? |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
Average? Very basic algebra, geometry, and trigonometry.
Slightly above average students will know basic calculus. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by d-miurge
What kind of maths does an average American know right after high school? |
If I recall correctly, and I've got nothing to back this claim, French students are way better at maths by the end of high school than the average American student (I'm saying this because our educational system is modelled after yours, and Brazilian students are often astonished by how easy high school is when they move the the US for whatever reason).
All I have to offer is anecdotal evidence, so... |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
When it comes to public school math programs: France > Britain > U.S.
This is the impression I get from the way math majors talk about it, anyway. |
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| d-miurge |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
If I recall correctly, and I've got nothing to back this claim, French students are way better at maths by the end of high school than the average American student (I'm saying this because our educational system is modelled after yours, and Brazilian students are often astonished by how easy high school is when they move the the US for whatever reason).
All I have to offer is anecdotal evidence, so... |
Ordem & Progresso? :p
I watched a bad film tonigh where they learned intercept theorem in high school, while in France we learn it in middle school (we call it Thalès theorem btw). I was wondering if it was a lazy scenarist or somehow true.
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Average? Very basic algebra, geometry, and trigonometry.
Slightly above average students will know basic calculus. |
Any integral, complex number? |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by d-miurge
Any integral, complex number? |
Yes, a little, for the students who take "advanced placement."
Not for the average, though. |
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