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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? :lol:

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? :lol:

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 :)