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[Tyler Aviss]

I'll jump in on this. You don't have to be a math whiz, but often being good
with patterns/logic is very useful.

IMHO, coding is great for NOT doing math. Drop the formula in a function and
let the computer do the work. Name/comment your code well and you don't have
to remember all those pesky formulas...

Code is kinda like spreadsheets but better: a way to get a lot of
calculations done with a minimum of input/remembering, and a lot of accuracy
(so long as you watch for rounding and old Pentium processors)

On 2010-12-16 2:33 PM, <sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org> wrote:

More to the no-math idea, I still own a book by Doug Cooper called Oh!
Pascal!, whose idea for delivery of programming concepts was to teach it
with as little math as possible. The last edition I am aware of was
published in 1993, and I see that on Amazon, it still sells for 75 bucks.
It had some really fascinating programming problems in it. I got my copy
used, an earlier edition, for just 2 or 3 dollars. Books like this make me
wish that Pascal was back again as a teaching language (or that production
languages like Lazarus were more popular).

Paul


> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 01:19:36PM -0500, Michael Lauzon wrote:
>>This is more for the programmer...

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