Fountainhead
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Y=mx+c , y-y1= m(x-x1), m1m2=-1 m=tan(teta) were fully forgotten when I moved to college to do Engineering in CS . Thanks to my first company which gave me a PC with VS6 (to be used only 2 hours a day...)and a compass , protractor, pencial and a japanese scale . It was exhilarating when I found myself applying my mathematical knowledge aquired at the age of 13 to 15 in a software job(CAD programming) ! . All the day I would be drawing arcs , triangles and lines based on angle to x/y axis , length of hypotnese , tangetial point , intersection points etc etc and arrive at algorithms which would be coded in c++ . What a life it was ! Though the pay I got then is now equal to the amount I spend on booze , the peaceful sleep I got then has never returned . In my college days when our friends moved to thier major departments we found most of the guys preferred mechanical/eletronics to CS . One of my best friends quoted this as the reason "A man has to choose Mechanical engineering as this is the first engineering conceived by man - right from the invention of wheel. All you CS preferring guys are just cowards aiming to do feministic(!!) tasks of coding in a stupid box..fools ..." I have moved to different CS domains in the last 8 years but I never again found such a manly(?!) way of coding(living ?) . Anyway I feel I outdid his comments because I , at least , proved him wrong that CS is not just about CS :-\
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dharani wrote:
One of my best friends quoted this as the reason "A man has to choose Mechanical engineering as this is the first engineering conceived by man - right from the invention of wheel. All you CS preferring guys are just cowards aiming to do feministic(!!) tasks of coding in a stupid box..fools ..."
As a physicist, I'd say the same thing about a mechanical engineer...
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dharani wrote:
One of my best friends quoted this as the reason "A man has to choose Mechanical engineering as this is the first engineering conceived by man - right from the invention of wheel. All you CS preferring guys are just cowards aiming to do feministic(!!) tasks of coding in a stupid box..fools ..."
As a physicist, I'd say the same thing about a mechanical engineer...
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73Zeppelin wrote:
As a physicist, I'd say the same thing about a mechanical engineer...
It seems science consists of a lot of posturing
Johnny ² wrote:
It seems science consists of a lot of posturing
Nice troll - just like the guy who started this thread.
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Johnny ² wrote:
It seems science consists of a lot of posturing
Nice troll - just like the guy who started this thread.
OT Just an update on the maths. As you recall I got my daughter some maths books. In preparation for a Parent Consultation Evening, I have received a short report. Her maths have gone from strength to strength an estimated final grade is A* (the highest) with her present position as A. Needless to say, I'm happy at her progress, as I am for the subjects of Biology, Chemistry & Physics where she is presently A on each.
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OT Just an update on the maths. As you recall I got my daughter some maths books. In preparation for a Parent Consultation Evening, I have received a short report. Her maths have gone from strength to strength an estimated final grade is A* (the highest) with her present position as A. Needless to say, I'm happy at her progress, as I am for the subjects of Biology, Chemistry & Physics where she is presently A on each.
That's excellent Richard. I'm impressed that you were willing to cater to your daughter's interests. Many parents just don't care as I clearly saw when I was teaching. This is an excellent example of how good results in math are achievable despite the general opinion that math is a difficult and arcane subject. Science is such an important part of a child's education, this is fantastic.
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OT Just an update on the maths. As you recall I got my daughter some maths books. In preparation for a Parent Consultation Evening, I have received a short report. Her maths have gone from strength to strength an estimated final grade is A* (the highest) with her present position as A. Needless to say, I'm happy at her progress, as I am for the subjects of Biology, Chemistry & Physics where she is presently A on each.
Richard A. Abbott wrote:
Needless to say, I'm happy at her progress, as I am for the subjects of Biology, Chemistry & Physics where she is presently A on each.
Congratulations are in order to you and to your daughter.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
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That's excellent Richard. I'm impressed that you were willing to cater to your daughter's interests. Many parents just don't care as I clearly saw when I was teaching. This is an excellent example of how good results in math are achievable despite the general opinion that math is a difficult and arcane subject. Science is such an important part of a child's education, this is fantastic.
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Richard A. Abbott wrote:
Needless to say, I'm happy at her progress, as I am for the subjects of Biology, Chemistry & Physics where she is presently A on each.
Congratulations are in order to you and to your daughter.
Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface
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OT Just an update on the maths. As you recall I got my daughter some maths books. In preparation for a Parent Consultation Evening, I have received a short report. Her maths have gone from strength to strength an estimated final grade is A* (the highest) with her present position as A. Needless to say, I'm happy at her progress, as I am for the subjects of Biology, Chemistry & Physics where she is presently A on each.
As an aside, are there any good maths tutorials etc. online? I've completely lost touch with anything mathematical, and I would just like to rekindle basic skills, to keep them from atrophying in case I may need them for some programming problem some time.
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As an aside, are there any good maths tutorials etc. online? I've completely lost touch with anything mathematical, and I would just like to rekindle basic skills, to keep them from atrophying in case I may need them for some programming problem some time.
Brady, there are plenty of on-line tutorials, however, the portal that is the BBC have a Bite-Size revision for all subjects here http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/[^] . For maths, http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/maths/[^] is the home page, and their RSS feed is http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/maths/maths.xml[^] Also, this is a website also for Maths revision for GCSE and higher grade http://www.mathsrevision.net/[^]. The books I purchased for my daughter included 1. Edexcel GCSE Maths, intermediate, Heinemann, ISBN 0435 53270 7 2. Letts Revise AS & A2 Mathematics, Letts, ISBN 1 84315 477 3 and 3. Bostock & Chandler Core Maths for A Level, Nelson Thomas, ISBN 978 0 7487 5509 7 These and computer and other books I have purchased through www.bookdepository.co.uk[^] and their prices are most reasonable with free delivery worldwide. In fact, the last book I purchased from them was (a 1400 page hard back version) Troelsen Pro C# 2008 and the .net 3.5 platform, marked $59.99 and I paid £23.30