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- From: jtbell@presby.edu (Jon Bell)
- Subject: Re: Info on being a Systems Programmer/Analyst?
- Message-ID: <DoM9I1.3F7@presby.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 12:03:37 GMT
- References: <3150eada.14098156@News.why.net>
- Organization: Presbyterian College, Clinton, South Carolina USA
-
- <Stuart.Johnston@Chrysalis.org> wrote:
- >Many people say that to be a programmer, you need a lot of math
- >skills, but I wonder if that is true. I'd like to know specifically
- >what type of math is used and how it is applied.
-
- You don't usually need a lot of math as such (unless you're programming
- in a field in which math is heavily used), but if you want to be a good
- programmer/analyst, you do need good problem-solving skills of the kind
- that are supposed to be taught in math courses.
-
- If you hate doing word problems in math or physics, you'll probably hate
- programming once you get beyond learning a programming language itself
- and into solving real-world problems. More specifically, you'll hate the
- analysis and design that precedes the actual coding of the program.
-
- --
- Jon Bell <jtbell@presby.edu> Presbyterian College
- Dept. of Physics and Computer Science Clinton, South Carolina USA
-