I use maths a lot more than I ever thought I would, but it's all common sense. Maths is easy in code.
You just need to say it out loud, like if you want to have a grid with 3 columns, like a table, I just say to myself.

"Ok, make X = 1. Then go through the loop, if X is 1, then we do a row start. Then we put in the cell with all the stuff we want in there. Then after that, if X is 3, we'll close the row and make X = 1, otherwise, we increase X by 1."

but in code, all that looks like is

$x = 1;
foreach($products as $product) {
if ($x == 1) { echo "NEW ROW"; }
echo "ALL THE STUFF WE WANT FOR A CELL;
if ($x == 3) { echo "END ROW"; $x = 1; } else { $x = $x + 1;}
}

It's easy.

$x = 1..... means you're make X be 1
$x == 1.... means you're seeing if X is 1.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:39, 3 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

that's algebra, mate
that's only a tiny bit of maths.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:44, Reply)

i don't thinkk he was saying he was covering all of maths in his job, badge

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:45, Reply)

True, yeah.
I was more covering the "maths is easy in code bit" really
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:48, Reply)

so yeah, the bit of maths he uses in his job he finds easy
i don't thinkk he was saying he was covering all of maths in his job, badge.

do you find simple things difficult?
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:49, Reply)

no, Q, I don't
but what you said is not the same as what he said, now is it?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:50, Reply)

he said maths is easy in code and then gave an example of the maths he finds easy in his coding
he did not say 'I DO ALL OF THE MATHS AND FIND ALL OF IT EASY' at any point.

Its not wonder our universities are going to shit with people like you working there
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:52, Reply)

in fact, i'm gonna say the whole education system is your fault now
stupid prick
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:53, Reply)

I can't take responsibility for any failure in the schools system, Q.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:54, Reply)

i think you should, this thread is a perfect example of how teachers like you are letting the system down

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:55, Reply)

I'm not a teacher.
I don't even really lecture that much, I'm mostly research.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:56, Reply)

so now you're lazy too?
michael gove has a lot to answer for
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:57, Reply)

Those that can do... quint.... those that. can. do.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:59, Reply)

which is why I mostly do, "do".
rather than teach.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:10, Reply)

"research" is clever people speak for
"fuck about on google all day"
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:11, Reply)

Yeah', but its not a real job with deadlines and shit.
Cancer would be cured YEARS ago, possibly on a spaceship, if you had performance reviews and deadlines that mattered.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:17, Reply)

haha, yeah right.
Deadlines in academia are if anything more brutal than in industry, because it's someone elses money you're justifying spending.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:19, Reply)

It's always someone else's money, the clients or the govs....
Pull the other one. Michelin star restaurants to sweet talk into a contract that would make millionaires out of everyone if the PROFIT was shared out.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:30, Reply)

No, I'm paid to bring in research funding
therefore I spend more time doing research than teaching.

I mean, obviously, Gove does have a lot to answer for, but my laziness isn't down to him.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:09, Reply)

i have never liked you less

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:12, Reply)

then my work here is done.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:13, Reply)

Whats the difference between a university and a school anyway?

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:59, Reply)

I think you know the answer to that, PP.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:08, Reply)

One is for older people?

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:16, Reply)

University qualifications are more specialist and more difficult than school qualifications
(in geneneral, I mean you could be doing War Studies at Kings, most 5 year olds I know could piss that).

Universities are also places of research as well as teaching.

Age doesn't specifically come into it, but you need teh equivalent of school qualifications to get into University.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:40, Reply)

Our universities aren't going to shit
it's apparently our schools. Do try and keep up, Q.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:53, Reply)

don't change the subject, badge
you were wrong and i was right.

for once
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:53, Reply)

It is also logic, another bit of maths.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:45, Reply)

Yup, this one, I think.
like knowing how things flow and effect other things. Like if you wanna center something on the screen, you'll have to know where to place the top left point of that object. Or creating a chart with a veriable number of bars at different levels.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:48, Reply)

I don't understand it at all
But give me some chemistry maths and I'll be right.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:45, Reply)

MOL

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:48, Reply)

you are a MOL.
Unless you're talking about the mol of substance, in which case to calculate it you either need the Ideal Gas Equation, the Concentration and volume, or the mass and molar mass of the substance in question.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:51, Reply)

I knew I should have done it lower case.
I'm ashamed of myself. Bully.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:52, Reply)

You should be ashamed. you're a shit person.

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:53, Reply)

Where are the mods when you need them?

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:56, Reply)

Brighton, I shouldn't wonder.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 10:12, Reply)

andy.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/programming-is-not-algebra/
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:47, Reply)

No, sorry, I understand that
but the only thing that really translates from maths into code is algebra

and logic, to satisfy Bartleby, but I'm never convinced logic is really maths. see also: statistics.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:50, Reply)

Well, there are other bits, like generating bar graphs by knowing exactly where to place each line and block and label*
Or knowing how to handle resources in that 8,16,32,64 etc stuff, whatever that progression is called. Or counting the seconds (or miliseconds sometimes) since The Epoch (1st Jan 1970 00:00:00).

I don't really know about different types of maths to tell you the truth, my point is, if you learnt how to code before you did maths, then you'd be able to do maths a lot easier.


* You're a mug if you do this today though; so many bits of code you can knick to do this for you, and they'd animate it.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:58, Reply)

Except the fundamental problem that hangs people up about programming
is that it *isn't* maths.

In maths saying
a=10
b=20
a=b

is just wrong. In programming it's the whole point.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:45, Reply)

Ttdr

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 24 Jul 2012, 9:51, Reply)