• @hglman@lemmy.ml
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    642 years ago

    Its got to be a relatively small group who knows enough to understand loops and is also afraid of math symbols.

    • @karstin@lemmy.world
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      152 years ago

      I’m in that group I think. I do like a liiitle bit of coding in some tiny specific progrqmming language in one piece of software that I use. I understand the basics but try to avoid having to do it. But while code is a little scary to me, math is much scarier lol

    • Choco1ateCh1p
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      52 years ago

      I believe this group could be bigger than some may think. I, and the team I work with, work with for loops similar to these on a regular basis. And only one of us has a bachelor’s degree in math. The rest of us don’t really understand the math unless it is applied.

    • @Malfeasant@lemmy.world
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      22 years ago

      Those of us born in the 70s… Doing anything with a computer required knowing at least a little programming, so we learned at 8 years old, then when we got to high school/college, we were taught by people who knew nothing about programming because they were already old and didn’t think they needed to learn anything new…

    • Maybe not so small?

      I never encountered these math symbols but for loops are like step 3 in any programming language after variables and conditionals