• src@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This is sadly how a lot of Computer Science students think nowadays.

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      1 year ago

      I think the problem is that they are trying to teach math to generalists where in front of them are students formed to understand programmatical problems.

      Where the problems be restructured to a programatical problem, then it would work far far better.

      Mathematical exercises aim to solve 1 problem with 1 given set of parameters, programatical exercises aim to solve 1 problem with ANY given sets of parameters.

      And that’s what made me loose interest in math during my CS years.

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        1 year ago

        Mathematical exercises aim to solve 1 problem with 1 given set of parameters

        Maybe you just had some really bad teachers, but I couldn’t disagree more. A big part of maths is proving statements that hold very generally (and maybe making it even more abstract, e.g. applying it to anything you can add and multiply instead of just real numbers). It kind of starts when your answers start being formulas instead of numbers but it goes much further