[Past|Present|Future] Timetravel - Hoax?

[Ravenshire]

Yep. In high school, while learning Pythagorean Theorem, I was awake late one night when I figured out that 3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2. Visions of Pulitzers danced in my head (ok, maybe not Pulitzers, but I thought I'd discovered something significant) until class the next day when my teacher said I'd found a Pythagorean Triple.

Oh....

I've found it's far more common for youths to think they've stumbled upon something earth shatteringly new, but it can happen to just about anyone, especially when they're learning (or even just thinking) about something that they knew little or nothing about before.

It happened to me once too.
When i discovered that momentum equals mass multiplied by velocity.
I didn't even know the terms "momentum" or "mass" or even "velocity",so my equation was something like f=w*s (Roughly translated by my younger me as force equals weight multiplied by speed).

As i grew older i stumbled upon a very similar equation in my textbook.
I was overjoyed,atlast i could tell myself that i was soooo fucking smart and that i was better than everybody else in my class.
Of course i couldn't tell this to any of my friends because then they'd make fun of me trying to seem like a genius. 
So my happiness was limited to only me - but it didn't matter.

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A good grasp of mathematics is essential to being a good coder.

Stop depressing me man.
I was insecure when i entered the world of coding because of my lack of grasp of mathematics.I went for a 2 month course in Java as a starter.
It SUCKED,i was literally a looser in that class,everyone was like so fucking smart which made me sooo sad.
The teacher was really mean to me too,she said that i'll never be a good coder and that i should very well quit.Needless to say i felt useless and depressed.I quit after 2 weeks.
But after some time i realized that what i did in every day of my life could be made easier by coding.I found some real-life applications of coding.

So i went on some website and tried to learn coding(I was desperate to prove my teacher wrong).I learned so much after many hours or trying and i made an app to do all the number conversions in c++ (without any functions,like i wrote the code from scratch).
I felt so fucking happy,like FUCK YOU TEACHER i'm FUCKING AWESOME NOW.
I used my app to do all my homeworks at school HAHAHA

I later realized that all i needed to code was good logic and problem solving skills which was natural to me(Thank god.).Although i've heard that coding gaming engines and shit takes a tonload of math(Never going in that direction.)

If you're in the US, your local community college can give you the basics in mathematics you need for coding. Logic and problem solving will let you write small, simple apps, but if you really want to pursue coding, you need the math. If comm. college isn't an option for you, you can hire a tutor, buy an online (or offline) self-learning program, hell just start visiting some of the thousands of learning web-sites. The info is out there. The only person that's gonna stop you is you.