I’m a first year computer science student, having returned several years after finishing high school.
As I delve deeper down the rabbit hole I am gain a greater appreciation for the importance of math in computer science.
The problem is I don’t enjoy math, I read an article called Lockhart’s Lament that I think sums up my experience with math in high school. I want to learn more math to improve my programming abilities and broaden my problem solving abilities and at the moment I am working through Rosen’s discrete math text but it feels like a grind.
I used to enjoy math as a kid, and I naturally enjoy problem solving and logic. I am hoping to somehow rekindle my interest in math. Has anyone managed to rekindle their interest in math for its own sake?
Where did you start, what type of things did you do? I’d be interested to hear other peoples experiences, maybe inspiring books or good text books
The problem your solving with the math as you learn it must to be important to you, then the math will be worth it. Just reading a book that bores you without working on a problem you enjoy simultaneously probably won’t work very well.
If you have been running into programming that requires math, find some variant of that programming that is important to you, and solve it, learning the math required as you go.