Programming Definition and 1000 Threads

Homework Statement I have make a program that solves the distance between 2 points on a triangle. Homework Equations none The Attempt at a Solution /* homework 1 */ #include <stdio.h> #include <math.h> int main(void) { // Declare and initialize variables float x1=1, y1=5, x2=4, y2=7...

So, I see a lot of people saying and job postings requiring programming skills but are not themselves actual software engineering jobs. So my question is for jobs that require programming on the side i.e some non-cs engineering or technical job. How much experience or how many cs classes does...

So, I did a little searching around on these forums before I posted this, and I do see lots of threads about working for NASA but not something about my specific situation. I'm currently attending a college working on my AA. After that, I'm probably going to transfer to a University, where I'll...

I love programming(both high and low) and physics.I would like to design/analyse and program microcontrollers that control UMVs and robots.My most favourite job would be working at a space agency designing and programming the microcontrollers that control space probes and satellites PS:The full...

I'm an 2nd year student aiming for the major "Geophysics", my course, "Numerical Programming for Geophysicists" is teaching me how to use Octave, not Matlab, and they force me to use the terminal, not the GUI, on top of that we use Linux, i am also learning Shell and Python. Regarding the...

I'm currently working as a .NET developer and i totally hate it. I am not applying to anymore .NET jobs in my future. I'd like to move into the Web Development realm so I've taken steps to get me there: learning html, css, javascript (jquery+other frameworks), php, etc. I'm going to continue...

So I recently posted on here how I am torn between the two courses, computer science and physics, I am leaning towards computer science as I really want to head into the software engineering side of things e.g. game development etc. However, I feel like programming isn't as large a part of the...

Hey guys. I'm graduating in mechanical engineering at a university in Brazil. I'm currently on my second semester. I've started running after a mechanical engineering degree mostly because I've got a strong interest in the field of aircraft engineering, and my initial plan was to graduate in...

Hi friends, I have an avid interest on Mathematics and progranming and am working very hard to become a great computer scientist/ engineer. I have been researching books that woukd help me in this goal and by all accounts, TAOCP is one of them. I am convinced that studying this book wilk...

Dear PF Forum, I want to learn web programming, but there are specifics information that I need to know. What is the most famous database in web programming? My SQL? Is it true that PF Forum database is MySQL? If this is true, then the conclusion is MySQL can handle millions of post, hundreds...

Hello all, I have come here to gather what the communities view is on the possibility of quantum computing in relation to the actual logic behind synchronous programming and the laws that (seem to) govern the quantum realm. Coming from a background in computer science, I have studied the basic...

Hi, I was just wondering if there were any good resources/sites for learning to plot and solve differential equations and any other math for that matter, specifically in Python? The physics program at ASU is great but we aren't really given any class time to learn how to program, it's all on our...

Hello everyone, Head of our Physics department has asked me to teach a programming course for a few of their PhD candidates (mostly theoretical) who unfortunately are very bad in programming. He has shortage in his department and he wants someone from CS to do the job. I looked around and it...

i am new to this one.and this is about assembly programming.on reading about assembly on tutorialspoint i came up to this.i didnt understan it correctly.it says "Allocates10 words (2 bytes) each initialized to 0" what does this statement mean? please someone tell me about the meaning of this...

I will be starting a PhD next month. I know there are other things I need to worry about (actually getting through the next 5 years for one), but I would feel a bit more at ease if I discussed this before hand. First off, I'm pursing the degree because I love math and hope to be a professor...

Hi everyone, I have opted for an instrumentation course and I am worried about the programming part as i don't have much knowledge about programming. Is it necessary to learn C before learning PLC programming or i could start from plc programming? If I could start from plc then which book i...

Can learning of programming languages like C, Python, Fortran or mathematical packages like Matlab or Mathematica be helpful in developing mathematical thinking in high school students? Logically I tend to answer positively, but have no direct experience with that. Has anyone seen boosting...

I am a thirteen year old passionate to learn calculus(and possibly programming) but i do not know how to start. Please help.

How hard is c++ debugging compared to c? What do you think o f the sentence: "It s easier to shoot your foot in c. In c++ it s harder, but when you do, you blow away your whole leg"? Is it really hard( considering the fact code isn t "context free" and it may vary from compiler to compiler, it s...

If we list all the natural numbers below 10 that are multiples of 3 or 5, we get 3, 5, 6 and 9. The sum of these multiples is 23. Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000. This is the code for python I found (didn't create) which I believe is correct: max = 1000 result = 0 for...

Hi everyone... I'm a communication system engineering student and in my university we use studying Java. Now, for this summer, when I ll have free time, I was thinking about doing some practice with programming and maybe studying a new language, such C++( it s still a widesprrad language and I...

Hello, I've been thinking about writing a Chrome or Firefox (preferably both) browser add-on that would initially make things easier for me (i have some ideas and things that i'd like to implement for some sites) and hopefully i'll be able to help others if I'm able to publish my work on the...

Hey everyone. I'm getting ready to start my first year of college and I'm trying to decide between mechanical and electrical engineering. At first I was more interested in electrical, but then I heard that electrical engineers do a lot of programming which I'm not really big on. How much...

Hello to all! I have written this 1D FDTD code but the results I take are very large and after some timestep they get to infinite/NaN... I really don't know what's wrong. The expressions I have used are the exact given solution for the Maxwell equations. Thank you for your help. program yee...

Computational Imagination has an interview up with John D. Cook. John is an applied mathematician who I have occasionally corresponded with, and in this interview he talks about his transition from academia to industry, the different careers he has had, and offers some tips on software...

Homework Statement Hey, so basically I'm doing Advanced Higher Computing Science at school (It's a Scottish qualification), and I need to build an orbital simulator in VB.Net 2008 (nothing too fancy), but I'm having issues planning it all out. I'm only going to have one planet orbiting a star...

Hi All, I am currently a Masters Student in a Biomedical Engineering program and have a B.S. in applied physics. In the majority of the research I have and am doing has been computational and I have been taking engineering classes more on the computational side besides the bio based courses I...

I came across this new programming puzzle game on steam. http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/ The constraints of the machine make for some interesting programming puzzles. You get a grid of nodes. Each node can execute 10 or so really basic instructions (MOV, ADD, SUB, JMP, SAVE, SWAP). You...

Hello! (Wave) I am looking at the following example of Memoized Dynamic Programming algorithm. memo={} Fib(n): if n in memo return memo[n] if n<=2 F[n]=1 else F[n]=F[n-1]+F[n-2] memo[n]=F[n] return F[n] Could you explain me why we check if $n$ is in memo although memo is a set...

I've been taugth Matlab in university but I want to improve my programming skills and learn other programming languages. I want to ask where to begin? Can I learn it on my own? I can go to some courses too.

Hi Everybody! I've got a job doing stress analysis as an engineer at an aerospace company. My best days are when I get to spend all day writing VBA codes/macros to automate stress analysis procedures or whatnot. I was thinking about getting a certificate in Data Analysis aka Data Science at...

program factorial implicit none integer::fact,i,n print*,'enter the value of n' read*,n fact=1 do i=1,n fact=fact*i end do print*,'factorial is ',fact end program when input n largest number then answer is incorrect. how to solve

It seems a lot of stuff done for aerospace is in C/C++ or Python. Both of these are a few decades old now, and they seem to still dominate in the industry. I know that ESA has plans to start using Java, but what other current programming languages do you think would be viable options for use in...

Hi all, I have been teaching myself some programming by using Alice 2.3 freeware. My question is whether/to what degree, the structures used in Alice generalize: Alice's main items are : methods, events, functions, parameters, variables. Is this also the case for general programming...

So I see all of this talk about how you everyone should know how to program, etc. However, I don't get the purpose of it. I have seen people saying that you know how to program so you can tell the computer what to do. But even then what is the benefit of that? Others said that with programming...

Hi there, I hope this is the right place for this question and furthermore doesn't appear rude that my first post is a question! If so, I do apologise, I haven't been able to find an appropriate place to ask this. I'm working on calculating the position of the sun at a given day of the year for...

I am interested in doing some MATLAB programming but I cannot afford to buy the software. Can HS students use MATLAB for free?

Hi people, I'm trying to figure out what's wrong with my code. My goal is to calculate the average number of stones it takes so that 2 stones become adjascent on a 19x19 goban (the board of the game of go), when we randomly pick an intersection and place a stone on it. The answer should be...

Hello, I am looking to purchase a new laptop for my CS studies. From what I have learned thus far is that I need something with a lot of RAM and a fast processor. I was advised to stay away from any I3s. I think I might have found something that will work, but I'm not sure. I was looking for...

What kind of programming projects can be done using Kivy? More specifically, can Kivy be used for making desktop apps, video games?

I'm revisiting python, because recently our physics department decided to adopt it as our computational language, and I missed the class. I've also been given the impression that it's a very good language for algorithms and what-not. According to...

I've been contributing to an open source calculator, and I wanted a way to take integrals of functions. I suppose you could implement a definite integral function by using Riemann Sums, but I can't find any way to implement indefinite integrals (or derivatives for that matter). I've heard that...

Particularly, I mean trained skills rather than traits. For example, for a blank student/graduate who knows only physics theory, learning LaTeX would put them a little bit ahead. Then maybe some programming, learning simulation software etc. I'm finishing up my 2nd year in undergraduate right...

I want to switch either a standard AC socket or a USB outlet on and off on a programmed cycle. But although there are many consumer-ready timers available to do this at set times of day, programmable to the minute, I want to be able to randomize the cycles and have it programmable to the second...

What are the chances of finding work or a career if an average person were to take two beginning programming courses? Would this be enough for a possible career as a computer programmer?

I'm currently a database programmer, which is ok but repetative. What it lacks (in my experience at least) is the spirit that my degree had. I miss thinking analytically, doing integrals, using my brain to make things from scratch rather than memorising the motions of something already invented...

Homework Statement I'm currently working on a project in which I have to solve the energy eigenvalues of the Schrodinger equation to compute the mass of certain Mesons. We've been taught very little programming (so apologies that my understanding is very basic), and are therefore given any...

Hello. I'm currently taking a physics course that gives me the freedom to take any subject related to semiconductors and do some research on it, presenting it at the end of the semester. I know I want to do something related to programming, but I'm having a hard time finding a theme. Hence me...

Homework Statement I need to write a Python program, which would: 1) Ask for a name (input function) 2) Keep asking for the name if it is not entered correctly(if it has a digit in it) 3) If the name is entered correctly it will print the name Homework Equations How should I continue the...

I really need help with a big Python program. Our professor has been MIA for the whole term and now we need to submit a program. I thought I was doing and learning fine on my own, but the program simply does not work for me. I need it till Thursday and I am ripping my hair out because I cannot...