<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Hi Luke --<div><br></div><div>I just wanted to encourage you to work through the "mathier" exercises in Section 27. If I remember correctly, only Sierpinski and the exercises in the Newton's Method section needed a bit of outside research (this from someone whose last formal math course was high-school trig). Also, "find-root" is hard to test if you don't know how to properly find the root of an equation in the first place. Other than that, I think the all the math you need to know is in HtDP. </div>
<div><br></div><div>If you suffer from a bit of math phobia, solving these exercises is great boost to your self confidence. They <i>are</i> doable if you dig in a bit. As you can see, the people on this list are a great resource, so if you decide to tackle them, don't be afraid to ask for help. The reward is, in my opinion, worth the effort.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Good luck!</div><div><br></div><div>Dave Yrueta</div></span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:38 AM, wooks . <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wookiz@hotmail.com">wookiz@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br><div><div>On Nov 4, 2010, at 9:45 AM, wooks . wrote:</div><br><blockquote><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px">Unless you are headed for CS grad school or are Google/Microsoft material (by ability or by being in a brand name school) nobody really cares about your CS degree.<br>
</span></span></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>I think this is an overly narrow perspective. </div><div><br></div><div>NEU works with a lot of co-op employers (100s) and almost all of them care about high quality programming. Indeed, they forced NEU to re-train MS students when they enter because the typical NEU/MS co-op student wasn't as good as the undergraduates we produce. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I am sure there are companies that don't care what kind of software they produce but there is a dearth of good programmers as far as our co-op employers are concerned. </div><div><br></div><div>-- Matthias</div>
</div></div><div><br><br>Everybody (including most companies, including me before I was exposed to the Design Recipe and FP) thinks the software they produce is good. <br><br>Many companies are not enlightened enough to seek alliances with universities that are producing well trained programmers. <br>
<br>I would absolutely agree that there is a dearth of good programmers etc but the response of many employers to this problem is to widen their recruitment outside (and often far far outside) of the discipline. <br><br>
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