| Interesting. I absolutely suck at math, and I blame the computer. Here's why :) : When I was a kid I was good at 'arithmetic' in school (grade school, I really wouldn't call it math). Anything up to say raising stuff to arbitrary powers and doing lots of multiplications, long division up to fairly high numbers without pencil and paper. Then high school came along. In the first year I was probably the best of all the kids at math, it didn't cost me any effort either, trigonometry and so on was a breeze. I liked doing it, the teacher was great. Then in the second year of high school we got a fairly lousy teacher (sorry, it's the truth, especially when compared to the guy from the first year), and I got access to a computer. That changed everything. Computers were so much more fun than math yet somehow related that my interest in mathematics dropped like a stone and my interest in computers went through the roof. After that mathematics never managed to wrest my attention away from coding long enough to make it count. Even today I have an almost untouched calculus course sitting on my bookshelves that I've been planning to work my way through 'one of these days' for the last decade or so. Programming is just too much fun. I know I'd be a better programmer though, with more math under my belt, so maybe, one of these days... |