Article View: alt.computer.consultants
Article #150Re: Info on being a Systems Programmer/Analyst?
From: Wintermute
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 12:03
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 12:03
23 lines
1861 bytes
1861 bytes
John Tessin wrote: > > Greg Higgins (higgins@cs.niu.edu) wrote: > : is overexposed to a calculus oriented curriculum. You might try > : looking into some beginning number theory texts. Mathematics is a > : huge field of knowledge; the glimpse you get in high school is only > : one small slice of it (and not necessarily the best slice :-) ). > > Symbolic logic is also helpful. They are sometimes carried in philosophy > departments. Some handy computer/information science theoretical areas: - Discrete mathematics, including set theory, graph theory, combinatorics - Algebra, including matrices, vectors - Symbolic logic, including propositional logic, predicate calculus - Algorithms, including complexity and computability issues -- Wintermute <3mal5@qlink.queensu.ca> <http://qlink.queensu.ca/~3mal5/> "If I really knew how to write, I could write something that someone could read and it would kill them." - william s. burroughs
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<3163BA81.15A5@qlink.queensu.ca>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.ccs.queensu.ca!newsReferences:
<3150eada.14098156@News.why.net> <4j8ll6$src@slbh00.bln.sel.alcatel.de> <4jh6i4$912@dub-news-svc-3.compuserve.com> <4jlhmi$3g2@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4jt6k1$946@mp.cs.niu.edu> <jtessinDpAty6.J8t@netcom.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.ccs.queensu.ca!news From: Wintermute <3mal5@qlink.queensu.ca> Newsgroups: alt.computer.consultants,comp.edu,comp.lang.basic.misc,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.pascal.borland,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.os2.programmer.misc,comp.programming Subject: Re: Info on being a Systems Programmer/Analyst? Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 07:03:13 -0500 Organization: System Infinity Message-ID: <3163BA81.15A5@qlink.queensu.ca> References: <3150eada.14098156@News.why.net> <4j8ll6$src@slbh00.bln.sel.alcatel.de> <4jh6i4$912@dub-news-svc-3.compuserve.com> <4jlhmi$3g2@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4jt6k1$946@mp.cs.niu.edu> <jtessinDpAty6.J8t@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: qlink.queensu.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; qlink 5.4 sun4d)