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shateredsoul:
what about programming in video games? how math and physics heavy is that?

Remember, i'm not trying to get a job in programming (read above).

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: shateredsoul on December 17, 2010, 02:18:24 am ---what about programming in video games? how math and physics heavy is that?

Remember, i'm not trying to get a job in programming (read above).

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It all depends on the game.  If you plan on doing 3d games, then plan on knowing matrix math like the back of your hand.  If you plan on using physics in your game, then you either use a third party library or create your own physics library for the game.  I've done both and while the third party library worked pretty good after we finally got it working, it also implemented a lot of features we didn't use that slowed down the game.  Creating my own mini-physics library worked significantly better when I was working on simpler games.


--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 17, 2010, 09:35:31 am ---I also doubt that any programmer is regularly using math at the level that they were teaching/requiring it.
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In my current job (non-video game related) I wouldn't say I'm using it regularly, but I'm using it often enough that it's biting me in the ass that I don't remember it all.  I've had to spend a lot of time relearning a lot of the advanced math (mainly the math from my advanced physics classes) I originally learned in college.

I agree they do make Comp Sci harder then it should be in college, but since around 75% of the people dropped out because it was too hard, that makes my degree look that much nicer to employers, so I'm not complaining :)

SavannahLion:
Damn atomsmasher beat me to it.

As for crap courses. Some the courses my cc required for CS was geology and American History.  I get that schools want well rounded students but geology as a requirement for CS? Maybe if I was doing a reboot of DigDug.

SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on December 17, 2010, 09:35:31 am ---I'd say that the lack of qualified graduates here has a little more to do with colleges doing everything they can to flunk out domestic students while bending over backwards to cater to international ones than it does with lazy American students.

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I thought that had more to do with that whole minority equality thing.

SavannahLion:
Oh that's right, evil topic.

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