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[vaironl]

hi guys, my name is vairon not much to say about me except that i am Spanish.
motivated toward learning programming languages , and that is all.

Looking towards C++ help.

[WingedPanther]

Welcome aboard!

[Alexander]

Welcome to our forums. Glad you could get started with a language like C++, it is a good one!

[vaironl]

Alexander said:

Welcome to our forums. Glad you could get started with a language like C++, it is a good one!

Thanks for acceptance to the forum.

I got a brief question which I don't know if I should ask on another post but here it goes..

Does a programmer need to know allot of math?
(knowing that I might want to choose this as a career , I'm afraid that math would be required , because I am just horrible at it.)

[Alexander]

vaironl said:

Does a programmer need to know allot of math?

The math in day to day programming is relatively minor, you need to work with minimal subtraction and addition along with logical operators (less-than, greater-than) to know how many times a loop will run for example. for(i = 2; i < 6; ++i) will run 4 times. Or for example to print a 10x10 multidimensional array:

for( i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
  for( j = 0; j < 10; j++) {
    std::cout << array[i][j] << " "; //What do you think will i and j be without actually running it?
  }
  std::cout << std::endl;
}

It mainly is visualizing what the code will do, if the math is wrong it will usually always make an obvious bug which you can fix and learn from, unless working with algorithms to sort arrays and calculate values dynamically within or something, you may not need all that much math.

[vaironl]

Alexander said:

The math in day to day programming is relatively minor, you need to work with minimal subtraction and addition along with logical operators (less-than, greater-than) to know how many times a loop will run for example. for(i = 2; i < 6; ++i) will run 4 times. Or for example to print a 10x10 multidimensional array:

for( i = 0; i < 10; i++) {

  for( j = 0; j < 10; j++) {

    std::cout << array[i][j] << " "; //What do you think will i and j be without actually running it?

  }

  std::cout << std::endl;

}

It mainly is visualizing what the code will do, if the math is wrong it will usually always make an obvious bug which you can fix and learn from, unless working with algorithms to sort arrays and calculate values dynamically within or something, you may not need all that much math.

Sounds good, But still i understand Math is a subject which will always be a daily part of our lives.

By the way, I did not understand anything in those codes :[.. I hope learning the language is not Extremely hard.. ( Though i have heard lots of people get frustrated)

[Alexander]

It always looks tough at the beginning, and requires reading a lot of different books and materials online to get even the intermediate stuff, you will get the hang of it once you know what each bit of syntax does.

If you feel that this language is too tough, feel free to tell us what kind of applications you wish to make or learn and we can provide options for easier languages, C++ is a lot more general (and thus slightly harder) than something like C# or Python - Although what you learn in C++ you can certainly use in nearly every language (a plus)

[vaironl]

Alexander said:

It always looks tough at the beginning, and requires reading a lot of different books and materials online to get even the intermediate stuff, you will get the hang of it once you know what each bit of syntax does.

If you feel that this language is too tough, feel free to tell us what kind of applications you wish to make or learn and we can provide options for easier languages, C++ is a lot more general (and thus slightly harder) than something like C# or Python - Although what you learn in C++ you can certainly use in nearly every language (a plus)

Sounds Like a good idea thanks for for the explanation. I will open a new thread soon about what compiler to download and where to go to actually start before i buy the books, because i still need to do some banking to buy them.

Hope you can reply to that thread thanks for the great help

[TheCompBoy]

Welcome to the codecall forum! hope we see each other around here :)

[vaironl]

TheCompBoy said:

Welcome to the codecall forum! hope we see each other around here :)

THANKS !

[LuthfiHakim]

Hi Vairon, welcome to CodeCall!