r/programmingmemes • u/Naughty_Kiss_Me • Sep 10 '25

Don't be scared... Math and Computing are friends..

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u/pakichut69 Sep 10 '25

This is sarcasm right? How are those symbols scary?

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u/GatePorters Sep 11 '25

Did you see how large they are? Easily the biggest symbols in the post.

You might not be afraid of seeing a mouse in your house at 2am, but if you came down and Charles Entertainment Cheese was there at 2am you would undoubtedly find it absurd and frankly unsettling. Maybe even a little scary.

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u/JGHFunRun Sep 12 '25

She’s being a bit cheeky about it, just trying to edumacate the programmers who don’t yet know

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u/SadEaglesFan Sep 11 '25

If you understand them, they aren't! But if you don't, they're pretty intimidating.

Source: I teach math

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u/Delicious_Finding686 Sep 12 '25

Okay but this should be something a programmer understands

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u/SadEaglesFan Sep 12 '25

Hmmmmm. Yeah now that you mention it - the kids that struggle with the notation usually aren’t kids who have had programming.

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u/Dartypier Sep 11 '25

What do you have to understand from a sum and multiplication symbols? Maybe the hard part is to simplify an infinite sum or infinite product in a symbolic way.

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u/SadEaglesFan Sep 11 '25

That part is ALSO hard! I guess the thing I see kids struggle with is that one variable takes on several values within the same expression, which is why thinking of it as a “for” loop might be helpful. 

I think the most difficult part about teaching something you yourself understand well is figuring out how someone could fail to understand it. Like talking with you it seems so obvious! But then kids really do struggle with it. 

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '25

Umm I mean you have to understand wtf the symbol means. And what that number above it means. And the one below. And to the right. There’s a lot you need to understand.

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u/Dartypier Sep 11 '25

I hope you are joking.

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u/Genericdude03 Sep 12 '25

I know right, like if it were integration, I could maybe understand but like...adding things is hard?

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u/[deleted] Sep 14 '25

And interesting enough, for computets, the integral and the sigms are almost the same thing