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  • Re: Math and programming

    From nelgin@VERT/EOTLBBS to All on Thu Apr 24 22:55:38 2025
    On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 19:19:12 -0700
    "Digital Man" (VERT) <VERT!Digital.Man@endofthelinebbs.com> wrote:

    Re: Math and programming
    By: Matthew Munson to All on Sun Apr 06 2025 06:31 pm

    should i try and self teach myself some mathematics so i could
    understand programming or can one program without the need for
    Calculus?

    Most programming does not invovled much math and definitely not
    Caluclus.

    Some basic knowledge of order of operations helps plus a bit of stuff
    like a negative plus a negative is a positive, as in 8 - -8 = 16.
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  • From Jimmy Anderson@VERT to Dumas Walker on Sat May 3 15:48:57 2025
    Dumas Walker wrote to MATTHEW MUNSON <=-

    should i try and self teach myself some mathematics so i could
    understand programming or can one program without the need for Calculus?

    I think if you are going to be programming for a system that is meant
    to do a lot of calculations *for* math or science, maybe. I programmed
    on systems that worked with taxes and child support payments for 27+
    years and had to at least have a grasp on basic math... addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, how to figure out a percentage, etc... but never used any higher math.

    If you are planning to program most anything else, a knowledge of basic math might help, but I am guessing you'd not need higher math, either.


    Someone mentioned Python - you can load libraries that will give
    you certain premade functions. There are math ones I know...


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  • From Bogomips@VERT to all on Tue May 6 09:06:52 2025
    Re: Math and programming
    By: Nightfox to Matthew Munson on Sun Apr 06 2025 07:07 pm

    should i try and self teach myself some mathematics so i could understand programming or can one program without the need for Calculus?

    You don't need to learn math in order to learn programming.

    Nightfox

    I just ordered Hello World from Ebay. I took it out of the library a few years ago and had fun with it. It's geared for kids and beginners.

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  • From Jimmy Anderson@VERT/PALANTIR to Bogomips on Wed May 7 12:57:52 2025
    Bogomips wrote to all <=-

    I just ordered Hello World from Ebay. I took it out of the library a
    few years ago and had fun with it. It's geared for kids and beginners.

    Cool name. :-)


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  • From Shitty@VERT/ALCO to Matthew Munson on Thu Jul 17 23:10:00 2025
    should i try and self teach myself some mathematics so i could
    understand programming or can one program without the need for Calculus?

    There's no need for advanced math skills unless you're writing software that solves advanced math problems.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Shitty on Fri Jul 18 08:42:50 2025
    Shitty wrote to Matthew Munson <=-

    should i try and self teach myself some mathematics so i could
    understand programming or can one program without the need for Calculus?

    There's no need for advanced math skills unless you're writing software that solves advanced math problems.

    And, in that case, you pulled your copy of "Numerical Recipes in
    FORTRAN" off the shelf and cribbed the algorithm from the book. Or C,
    if that was your flavor.



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  • From dmux@VERT/ABINARY to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Sep 22 12:47:00 2025
    Numerical Recipes in C

    Hah, I have a hardcover copy of this book in my cubicle. I found it at the thrift store. I find the code rather incomprehensible though.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to dmux on Sat Oct 11 16:05:53 2025
    Re: Re: Math and programming
    By: dmux to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Sep 22 2025 12:47 pm

    Hah, I have a hardcover copy of this book in my cubicle. I found it at the thrift store. I find the code rather incomprehensible though.

    The FORTRAN version I started out with was great, the code was quite readable. I don't know if it was FORTRAN 66 or FORTRAN 77, but back then the looping was pretty simple. They might have had a GOSUB command back then, not sure now.

    I wish I'd saved my code from school - lots of ANSI C compiled on PC, VAX assembly language and FORTRAN on a variety of big iron. Even some Modula-2 and LISP!

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  • From Dr. What@VERT/CABANABR to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Oct 12 10:29:00 2025
    The FORTRAN version I started out with was great, the code was quite readable. I don't know if it was FORTRAN 66 or FORTRAN 77, but back then the looping was pretty simple. They might have had a GOSUB command back then, not sure now.

    That's what a SUBROUTINE was for under FORTRAN. No GOSUB needed.

    But FORTRAN did have some interesting IF and GOTO constructs.

    ex: IF (variable) label-1,label-0,label+1
    or 2 types of computed GOTOs. One similar to BASIC's ON GOTO. But the other you could set a variable to a label and goto the variable.

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