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by tptacek
4436 days ago
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This comment is a little frustrating, because part of the point of linking to the Stack Overflow post is to continue the discussion, which is obviously germane to our site. Why not dig into specifics of how you'd approach the intersection of math and CS? |
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Meanwhile, I actually write a blog called "Math Intersect Programming." Even though it's more about my specific interests than how a freshman should approach the topics, and I certainly emphasize the mathematical ideas over the engineering challenges, it still gives a good idea of what I would suggest:
Orient the learning around applications in CS. Find a problem that requires the mathematics you want to learn, and learn it with the persistent contextual understanding that you are trying to do something more than just tinker with definitions. Do this for one application and repeat as desired.
My view is that when this is done, you learn to focus on the things that matter over the things that are used to fill empty space in courses (calculus courses come to mind as a specifically abhorrent example of this). You get better at seeing the forest over the trees.
The problem is this avoids the OP's question (and this ensuing discussion about the OP's questions and the purported answers), since you can't organize a single class around it. Another problem is that very few books are written this way, or are only superficially so.