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How much math?

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-12 1:01

Hello, /prog/. I'm currently going to school for computer science, and I was curious as to how math-intensive real-world programming is. Can you get by just being comfortable with arithmetic and algebra? Or do you need to be able to do Calculus and Trigonometry like a professional to actually be able to be good and employable?

Name: Anonymous 2012-09-13 0:01

>>45
OpenGL might create matrices for the transformations you want, but if you don't understand that concept of composing transformations and how they can collapse to a single matrix through multiplication then the API isn't going to make much sense to you.
Math is all about recipes, random search and black box functions, where yous just supply value and get result. You dont have to understand how your brain works to use it, same with a good API - it just works.

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