2026-09-12 20:29 UTC
@meltedcheese@c.im @mttaggart@infosec.exchange case in point: as a teenager I was told that good maths skills are a good basis to have when studying CS - it wasn't before several years after graduation - and after meeting several people who had studied maths that I finally understood, why
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@meltedcheese@c.im 2026-09-12 20:41
@mainec@fromm.social @mttaggart@infosec.exchange Agreed. A program is not so different in the skills needed than a proof, but with certain contrast: proofs are sometimes not easily translated into software (guaranteed to finish before the heat death of the universe) and programs, except the more trivial and independent, are not generally amenable to proof.
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-09-13 01:26
@mainec@fromm.social Especially if you want to do graphics programming, like for game development. To do that, you need to know your trigonometry and whatnot. @meltedcheese@c.im @mttaggart@infosec.exchange