Re^2: Perl Assignments Needed

How much math is in your computer science? I remember in my high school the assignments were mostly simple computational physics and math problems.

When I was at high school, I liked very much to mix my programming skills with the knowledge I got from other subjects. For instance:

write a 2D solar system simulator
reproduce Mendel experiments
write a plotting program for math functions
write a linear equation solver
draw 2D proyections of simple 3D figures
...

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Re^3: Perl Assignments Needed by amarquis (Curate) on Sep 18, 2007 at 20:13 UTC
The 2D solar system simulator is kind of neat, I remember doing that too. The reason that I lean towards some sort of math problem or physical simulation is that when I was in high school I was always wondering "Where's the application of this? How good do I have to be before I can do anything with direct application?" in my programming classes. With something like a 2D solar system simulator you can say "Hey, I built something that charts the courses of the planets based only on the laws of physics and my programming skills, how neat is that?"	[reply]

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Re^3: Perl Assignments Needed
by amarquis (Curate) on Sep 18, 2007 at 20:13 UTC

The 2D solar system simulator is kind of neat, I remember doing that too.

The reason that I lean towards some sort of math problem or physical simulation is that when I was in high school I was always wondering "Where's the application of this? How good do I have to be before I can do anything with direct application?" in my programming classes. With something like a 2D solar system simulator you can say "Hey, I built something that charts the courses of the planets based only on the laws of physics and my programming skills, how neat is that?"

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