What's up /sci/, i have a question for anyone who is a comp

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>>8874463

Read an intro to programming book and do the exercises like "C++: How to Program". It will eventually click.

>>8874463
>>8874490
Dude, you're just in the 2nd page, calm down.

Anyway, I don't have any experience on programming and shit like that but you should ask on /g/ as well.
Make a thread there or search on the respective programming threads so they may help you.
But I don't guarantee it.

And /sci/ will help you soon, see >>8874496
however remember this board is kind of slow but sadly it's a little faster because of the shitposting about Nye.

>>8874490
check out /g/ for the programming thread. most of /g/ is literal shit but some of the generals have good information and intelligent people willing to help out.

also be aware the current time really impacts the answers you will get

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>applied mathematics
Carrying out the computations is the job of the machine. Your job as a programmer is to describe the outcome you want and prove that the instructions you give actually lead to your desired outcome.

The parts of math that are closer to programming include logic, proofs (induction + recursion), number theory, combinatorics (plus the more combinatorial parts of statistics) and, if you decide to venture down that rabbit hole, category theory / type theory.

One thing you can try, as a math student, is to get more practice at proving theorems (proofs and programs are very closely related, but that's for another thread). Project Euler may be a good place for you to try that.

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>>8874496
I have some textbooks and some "self help" intro to programming books. The individual step (loops, lists, etc.) make sense. But putting it all together to make a useful program is where I lack. I think of programming more as an art more than a tool, because you can write a thousand different programs to do the same task.

Maybe I'm just not creative enough to think it though.

>>8874499
>>8874500
Ah, thanks m8s. Usually don't post in sci, I'll try g.

>>8874505
Yes, I've used Euler for some ideas.

I don't have much experience with proofs other than linear algebra where they were super simple ones. But I can see the connection, now that you mention it. Never thought of it that way.

>>8874512
>But putting it all together to make a useful program is where I lack

Felt the same way starting out. You just have to get used to thinking in terms of loops/conditionals/etc. In a year or two, you'll look back and wonder how you ever struggled.

>>8874505
Found this book on a bus when I was 15. Fell in love with the Tower of Hanoi. Became a phrenologist. (Bump.) Never looked back.

>>8874463
Programming is sadly unlike most sciences is more of a skill. So what you do is you get some exercises and try them, get your ass handed to you. Find someone who is better ask them what you did wrong, fix and repeat. Do this and your brain will start to see patterns. After enough patterns it will be so much more easier. You will be doing ACM problems for fun. Hope this helps.