Hobbyist or Professional?

[programmerinprogress]

id rather be a great mathematician than a great programmer.

but wouldn't it just drive you crazy being able to play around with all those numbers and have nothing to do with them?

seriously though, I agree RyanPridgeon (because i'm incredibly biased!) I feel accomplishment from creating efficient algorithms and improving things (like when you write out a heap of code that works, but then you think of a much shorter way of doing it )

So I would probably end up preferring to be an expert programmer (although I wouldn't exactly frown upon being an expert mathmetician)

then again, I don't know what it is to be an expert mathmetician or programmer so my opinion is fairly redundant :P

[RyanPridgeon]

id rather be a great mathematician than a great programmer.

but wouldn't it just drive you crazy being able to play around with all those numbers and have nothing to do with them?

seriously though, I agree RyanPridgeon (because i'm incredibly biased!) I feel accomplishment from creating efficient algorithms and improving things (like when you write out a heap of code that works, but then you think of a much shorter way of doing it )

So I would probably end up preferring to be an expert programmer (although I wouldn't exactly frown upon being an expert mathmetician)

then again, I don't know what it is to be an expert mathmetician or programmer so my opinion is fairly redundant :P

Alot of the AS maths course helps you directly with programming problems, especially in such things as game development :P

Mechanics, Decision Maths... all these things are quite helpful :P

[eatcomics]

I would have to say that the fun part of being a professional is the road you take to get there