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Stompy · 04-14-2004, 08:35 AM

I wish they'd give a practical application for these methods as they taught them. Perhaps I'd retain a lot of it better if I actually saw HOW it's actually used.

A lot of teachers plop this stuff in front of you and say, "This is a derivative, and this is how you work the problem," but they never actually give you a link to a real world issue of when it would normally be used. It's the age old question of, "When am I actually going to be using this?"

One situation where I heard a lot of this is used is in 3D Graphics programming, which I want to try and get into as I'm going through it all.

04-14-2004, 08:35 AM	#13 (permalink)
Stompy Banned from being Banned Location: Donkey	I wish they'd give a practical application for these methods as they taught them. Perhaps I'd retain a lot of it better if I actually saw HOW it's actually used. A lot of teachers plop this stuff in front of you and say, "This is a derivative, and this is how you work the problem," but they never actually give you a link to a real world issue of when it would normally be used. It's the age old question of, "When am I actually going to be using this?" One situation where I heard a lot of this is used is in 3D Graphics programming, which I want to try and get into as I'm going through it all. __________________ I love lamp.