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In programming how important is it to be good at algebra?

When I think of a math requirement for programming, algebra and calculus are not the first two topics that pop into my face bucket. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_mathematics Logic, for the most part, is a requirement of any kind of programming. Even if you're working through some...
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- Post #34
- Feb 3, 2012
- Forum: Programming
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Is there a "visual" compiler that can compile for Win,Mac,Linux and Unix?

The Qt framework would certainly get you where you want to be, but the UI code is mostly done in with a declarative syntax that is then pre-compiled into generated c++ code. Most of it won't compile without Qt, but the editor isn't bad and Qt Designer is a great visual UI editor as well. Some...
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- Post #7
- Oct 24, 2011
- Forum: Programming
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Free Programming Editors

vim with ctags
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- Post #2
- Aug 2, 2011
- Forum: Programming
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12 year old son wants to start learning game programming...

He is twelve. Unless he has a knack for math at a highschool level or a strong programming background then you may want to start with something like Scratch. http://scratch.mit.edu/ Leave the soul crushing experience of wading through thousands of lines of graphics API documentation for when...
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- Post #8
- Dec 9, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Excel Programming - Willing to pay

Hack it together with python!
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- Post #5
- Mar 12, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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How do programmers and database engineers remember/track everything?

It's not too bad until you get above four or five million lines of code in the application. Hopefully you're not storing every source file in the same directory. Doxygen is great though.
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- Post #5
- Mar 5, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Cygwin vs. MinGW

I keep things simple and platform independent. You can do whatever you want. Aside from the obvious problem that people will make mistakes and somehow tie their buildscripts to the local machine, you're forced to install additional packages to get the thing running. It wouldn't be a...
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- Post #11
- Mar 2, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Cygwin vs. MinGW

I think the biggest difference I've noticed between cygwin and mingw is the use of bash for writing build scripts. Please don't do that, for the love of every poor prick that has to look at what you write months and years down the road.
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- Post #9
- Mar 2, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Best book on algorithms

I really don't recommend reading it alone, but Introduction to Algorithms (Cormen/Leiserson/Rivest/Stein) is really popular with the academics. Lots of math, proofs, and basically everything that the person who just wants to write cool web pages doesn't give two wits about. If you're...
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- Post #4
- Mar 2, 2010
- Forum: Programming
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Mass Effect 2: I need a save from Mass effect 1.

The Titantic sinks. ET goes home. Newt dies between Aliens and Alien3. Kyle dies in Terminator.
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- Post #31
- Jan 19, 2010
- Forum: PC Games
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Netflix Coming to PS3

Down with Bluray, Digital Streaming is the future!
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- Post #40
- Oct 26, 2009
- Forum: Console Gaming
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Sigh C

Seems like the point of the assignment is more of an exercise in translating math to software than to write some monolithic conditional. Trying to solve the problem without using math works, but not in an elegant way. Test it extensively if you're going to go with this, and expect that the...
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- Post #7
- Oct 21, 2009
- Forum: Programming
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Deciding on a programming language

How useful is C# without the .NET framework? At that point it would be like Java without the bulk of the Sun APIs, right?
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- Post #13
- Jul 24, 2009
- Forum: Programming
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The PS3 is like an onion

Armchair-developer-console-fanboys. They bicker like this every time.
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- Post #53
- Jul 20, 2009
- Forum: Console Gaming
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The PS3 is like an onion

Scott Rohde needs to understand that the PS3 wasn't unearthed as the last vestige of some ancient technologically advanced civilization. Sony seems to sell people on the idea that nobody in the world could POSSIBLY understand the capability of their magical miracle box every generation, and the...
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- Post #12
- Jul 17, 2009
- Forum: Console Gaming

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