seeking advice regarding schooling

[aardvark]

I am enrolling in several programming courses at a community college in order to help teach myself C/C++.  I am succesfully teaching myself at present using books.  I am wondering how much Math I should know before trying to program professionally.  I know algebra and geometry, however, I noticed the prerequisets for the computer math courses are trig. and calculus.  Are these essential?

 

[rotovegasBoy]

It all depends on what area of computing you wish to go into.  Pure programming (as you  may have seen) does not require much high level math knowledge, unless you start getting into time effieiency and processor utilisation.  A good grounding in math helps a bit to understand why one algorithm is better than another but if you are told buy a designer what to use then as long as you know how to use it thats fine. I'm not sure what level of mathemetics is required by employers but having a good knowledge of math opens up the more interestin areas of computing such as optimisation and database theory.

 

[ssingh]

It depends on the requirement. If you want to do some Numerical Analysis, then it would be beneficial to know Calculus. Otherwise, if you know algebra and Geometry , you are half done. Nothing to worry about.<br><br>Siddhartha singh<br><A HREF="mailto:ssingh@aztecsoft.com">ssingh@aztecsoft.com</A>

 

[tmoses]

i am going to school right know for computer science and i would suggest math courses such as Discrete Structures.&nbsp;&nbsp;you have to learn calculus etc.. but Discrete Structures deals with sets, matrixes, partitions etc.. It gives the mathmatical bases for alot of programming concepts ex. Recursion.&nbsp;&nbsp;You will have to take this course anyway if you go into comp. sci in college so you might get a head start.&nbsp;&nbsp;As of what math basis you need to go on, basically none.&nbsp;&nbsp;Thses are only additional things that can add ot your understanding of how prgramming languages are set up.&nbsp;&nbsp;probaly a better area to look into would be books on logic structurs and design, flowcharts, and object oriented desing.&nbsp;&nbsp;These will help you alot more than books on math.<br><br>ackka<br><br> <p>moses<br><a href=mailto:tmoses@iname.com>tmoses@iname.com</a><br><a href=

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