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Re: Hobbyist or Professional?
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 3:48 pm
by programmerinprogress
avansc wrote: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
Re: Hobbyist or Professional?
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 5:10 pm
by RyanPridgeon
programmerinprogress wrote:avansc wrote: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
Re: Hobbyist or Professional?
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 6:51 pm
by eatcomics
I would have to say that the fun part of being a professional is the road you take to get there