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Re: Guidelines before posting I think that learning from our own mistakes is often the best way to make sure those mistakes aren't repeated, it's just that sometimes in 'real life' or in school people need guidance. I was under the impression that this was a help and discussion forum and that would anyone intrested in computer science would have access to the shared knowledge of collective experts available through this site. I am looking forward to seeing what information I can gather from it.
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And you will find this to be one of the best places to learn that I have ever seen. The people you will meet here are great! and eager to share their formidable knowledge.
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Originally Posted by zeroth
And you will find this to be one of the best places to learn that I have ever seen. The people you will meet here are great! and eager to share their formidable knowledge.
That's good to know!! Looking forward to needing some guidance!!
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Almost all the teachers I know only know theory stuff, and no real world stuff. It's a shame.
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I want some advise. Is it necessary to be a mathmatician to be a programmer.
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Not really, but knowing it really helps.
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Originally Posted by yaredo 
I want some advise. Is it necessary to be a mathmatician to be a programmer.
Not really. I am looking to study computer science at uni and the entry requirements are (i live in britain):
A or B at maths (age 16)
A-C Maths (age 18) =OR= A-C at Computing (age 18)
Most unis are like this. They say that to do a degree in computer science, maths is very important but you do not need a qualification in it if you have previously studied a computer programming related course and got a good grade
You will definately need to be excellently qualified at maths to program games though !
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I think hes really checking to see how many people will respond to a very old thread. So far 3, counting me. 
Do you need to be a programmer to be a mathmatician? Or does the inverse logic not apply?
Do you need to be a programmer to be a mathmatician? Or does the inverse logic not apply?
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Originally Posted by yaredo
I want some advise. Is it necessary to be a mathmatician to be a programmer.
You don't need to be a mathematician unless of course you work for a company like NASA. But you do need to know college algebra and trig. Never needed anything else in over 25 years programming.
Last edited by Ancient Dragon : May 11th, 2007 at 9:07 pm.
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Well you need to have good math skills to do games programming (ie OpenGL and DirectX). Even so, I don't think it's necessarily the knowledge of math as much as it is a good set of math-related skills to be able to think logically and abstractly, etc.
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