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[johnny]

I would choose both.

[v0id]

I chose both too. I do prefer programming over mathematics though, but I enjoy mathematics a lot too.

[chili5]

Um yeah I said both also.

I like math better but programming is a lot of fun when I get time for it.

I only like math better because I'm way better at it.

Although I don't really know what math has to do with programming?

[WingedPanther]

I'm a mathematician, and use that training to inform how I approach programming. At the high ends of both, programming theory IS math. One of my graduate courses was on Recursively Enumerable Sets. Translation: what are the theoretical limits of what a program can do?

[John]

I too chose both :)

[broncoslb]

I would have to choose both, but I enjoy figuring out programming problems better than straight math problems though.

[G_Morgan]

chili5 said:

Um yeah I said both also.

I like math better but programming is a lot of fun when I get time for it.

I only like math better because I'm way better at it.

Although I don't really know what math has to do with programming?

Have a look at functional programming. There's quite a lot of mathematics involved there. Basically an entire branch of language theory came from the mathematical concept of lambda calculus.

There's also plenty of stuff like set theory, computational complexity, etc involved in CS (a good example, relational databases are entirely based on set theory in principle).

[TcM]

Programming. I'm not much into maths, although I can solve programming problems with Maths, but I would prefer if it was non-math related.

[R-G]

Interesting views and opinions. However, maybe we should ask the question what actually was first? The chicken or the egg?

We can trace the field of mathematics back 70.000 years ago. The field of computer science or in this case the computer programming would not exist without the field of mathematics at all. It has very much to do with computer science as some mates mentioned here. The field of mathematics has given the theoretical basics of the computer science. It is basically the only universal language that can describe the nature and all things around us.

However, I totally agree in this matter Winged Panther!

[WingedPanther]

I tend to trace the birth of computing back to two men: Turing and Babbage: both mathematicians. Do with it what you will :)

[chili5]

So mostly the math is more involved in the theory behind the programming?

I've made several programs and I don't remember using any math in them.