PROACTIVE PROGRAMMERS

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." Will Durant in The Story of Philosophy... When software engineers design and implement computer programs, they use, for instance, higher-order, lambda, and generating functions to create and manipulation of discrete structures (e.g., numbers, lists, and dictionaries) that have distinct values. When engineers describe a discrete structure using formal mathematical notation, it better enables them to see both the trade-offs in the structure's design and implementation and the connection between one structure and another. As pointed out by the The Art of Problem Solving team in the article Why Discrete Mathematics is Important, "the mathematics of modern computer science is built almost entirely on discrete mathematics." This course will give you a foundation in both programming and discrete mathematics!