#math textbooks for HS

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haughty hedgeBOT
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Prealgebra by Julie Miller, Molly O'Neill, Nancy Hyde (skip if already familiar)
College Algebra and Trigonometry by Margaret Lial, John Hornsby, David Schneider, Callie Daniels
Precalculus by Michael Sullivan

(but this may be a better question for #book-recommendations in the future!)

dreamy quarry
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i didn’t even notice there was such a channel

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oh it’s not on my channel list

tranquil briar
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is there anything else you'd still want to ask in this thread?

dreamy quarry
tranquil briar
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theoretical CS or practical CS?

dreamy quarry
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i’m a sophmore in HS taking pre-calc and next year i’ll be taking calc 1 and 2

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practical

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theoretical would probably fry my brain x~x

tranquil briar
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truth be told, I don't think you need a lot of math for basic software development and stuff. you might need more math in the more involved areas like cybersec, big data, IoT, etc.
but basic software development is really more about problem solving, decision making, and actually producing clean, maintainable code than math.

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that being said, knowing some discrete math/logic, a bit of calculus, and a bit of DSA (if you count that as math) should carry you through most practical CS courses.

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(however, please do not entirely quote me on this. I am but a budding high schooler myself; I'm going off what I've personally seen in course outlines.)

dreamy quarry
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oh oh i also plan to go into cybersecurity too. uh i’m going into a career tech program my school offers and it basically revolves around IT

tranquil briar
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then you might want to be a little more familiar with discrete math.

dreamy quarry
tranquil briar
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well discrete math isn't just that but that is a good start.

dreamy quarry
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i have a logic textbook collecting dust in my closet and it has some of the terms i see in discrete math courses

tranquil briar
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if you wish to see the full scope of discrete math, try Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics by Ralph Grimaldi.

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discrete math is honestly a ragtag group of random stuff packed in there, from what I understand.

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there's logic, there's combinatorics, there's set theory, there's graph theory (possibly important to you!), etc.

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so logic is but one part of discrete math. it's not the entirety of discrete math, and it is also not fully covered by discrete math.

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but whatever logic is covered in discrete math should ease you through any practical CS course.

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so is there anything else we could help you with?

dreamy quarry
tranquil briar
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glad to have helped!

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you can mark this post as .solved when you're done then.

naive shadow