Well I plan on being a computer programmer, thats about all. My passion is for programming loads of code and making my visions a reality.

I want to get a good job at a game company programming and I know they look for levels of math and everything, so in order to get a GOOD programming job and be able to do anything involved with the programming how far in math should I go?

Tyler L
Kaotic Entertainment
"Live Hard, Learn Hard, Game Hard"

This is the way it went when I was in Highschool:
Algebra 1
Geometry
Algebra 2
Trigonometry
PreCalc

Then In College it goes:
Calc 1
Calc 2
Calc 3 Muli-variate Calc
Differential Equations
then whatever like stats or linear algebra and discrete etc...

For me learning any Math was like trying to fit a square block into a round hole, it just didn''t fit. But now its my best subject (Probably because I studied 20 times more for it than anything else)

The thing about math and computer science is: Math is supposed to teach you to think logically. At high levels in computer science you will use mathematics to proof algorithms etc.

But everything is relative and you can get a BA in comp sci at most schools with maybe one semester of the "baby calculus" and an easy statistics class.

Any place good place to learn about math online???

Cheers.

MIT has notes for some of their mathematics courses available online here

[edited by - Rivendell on October 24, 2002 11:29:56 PM]

Look at the university you want to go to and see what the Software Engineering program requirements are. You can also look at the math that is required for those course. This will give you an idea of what to take in high school.


Make it work.
Make it fast.

"I’m happy to share what I can, because I’m in it for the love of programming. The Ferraris are just gravy, honest!" --John Carmack: Forward to Graphics Programming Black Book

"Not to be discouraging but Calculus...any calculus...is 10 times more difficult than anything you''ll see in highschool." -- err... Im in highschool (sophmore year) doing calc A, I do calc BC junior year, and on to stat senior year.... I think a lot of highschools have honors programs that deal with calculus before college

math is important and all, but I think more important is the ability to think analitically and the ability to make somthing that is abstract, logical for a computer in a procedural fashion.
math is just a tool that aids this process along the way.

I have been a programmer of multiple languages for 3-4 years and I have just began taking ALGEBRA 050. (Im 17)

-= Twisted Matrix =-

quote: Original post by Anonymous Poster
"Not to be discouraging but Calculus...any calculus...is 10 times more difficult than anything you''ll see in highschool." -- err... Im in highschool (sophmore year) doing calc A, I do calc BC junior year, and on to stat senior year.... I think a lot of highschools have honors programs that deal with calculus before college

Lets do the math on this one:

Calc A: one year
Calc 1: 3 1/2 months
Calc A: teacher barely passed college to get a teaching degree
Calc 1: teacher was a once promising young mathematician is now a frustrated middle aged female ph.D that hates undergrads.

You know how they always put easy problems first in the textbooks? In Calc A/BC THEY''RE ALL EASY PROBLEMS!