What do you guys think, why do people say that programming requires mathematics and physics?
To me it seems exactly the opposite. Applying the knowledge of mathematics and physics appears to be a way to get away with not knowing how to do something the right way.
For instance, you can make conical gradients using trigonometry and JavaScript, but if you know how to use Photoshop and advanced CSS, you are going to get better results. If you know the physical formulas, you can make a pendulum move perceptively correctly in your analog clock, but you will get better results if you use a physics framework.
What do you think about that?
To me it seems exactly the opposite. Applying the knowledge of mathematics and physics appears to be a way to get away with not knowing how to do something the right way.
For instance, you can make conical gradients using trigonometry and JavaScript, but if you know how to use Photoshop and advanced CSS, you are going to get better results. If you know the physical formulas, you can make a pendulum move perceptively correctly in your analog clock, but you will get better results if you use a physics framework.
What do you think about that?
