Happy New Year! Happy New Blogging!
This blog is now posted once a week. Each week will answer questions related to Computers, Mathematics, and Schools.
Who Wants To Be A Programmer?
So you want to be a computer programmer or software developer. You're thinking you could start with $60,000 a year salary after you graduate with a bachelor degree in Computer Science. But do you really want to study all that hard and spend the rest of your working life in front of the computer day and night? Didn't you wrote a school report for your teacher on what you want to be when you grow up? Then here are four answers that can help you decide your answer to the question.
A. I want to be a physician so I can heal sick people and be a wealthy doctor.
B. I want to be a politician so I can be president and rule the world.
C. I want to be a programmer so I can create the next Minecraft and be a millionaire.
D. I want to be a poet so schoolchildren will write of me in their school reports.
What is your final answer?
Suggested website:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-signs-meant-programmer/
Who Is The Greatest Mathematician In The World?
There are many people who have brought our knowledge of mathematics to what it is today. Thanks to that person or persons who had the idea of using stones for counting sheeps so shepherds will know when to look for a lost sheep. Thanks to Euclid for Geometry so high schoolers will have some real challenging homeworks. Thanks to Boole for inventing binary algebra so Turing can be called the father of computer science and have everyone buy home computers. But if one is to choose the greatest mathematician of them all, he or she has to be one who has helped the most people understand and learn mathematics. That accolade goes to Rene Descartes who invented the Cartesian coordinate system, which makes understanding calculus, drawing on a screen monitor, plotting on a graph, and other things palatable.
Suggested website:
http://fabpedigree.com/james/mathmen.htm
What Should Be The Universal Language Of The Whole Wide World?
If everyone in the world know how to speak one common language, then one can go anywhere in the world and be able to speak to anyone in the world without sounding like a foreigner. But what should be that one common universal language for everybody to learn. Should it be the one that more than half of the world already know? Chinese, anyone? Should it be the one that is easiest to learn? This depends on what language you already know. Should it be the one that is easiest for computers to know, or rather, to write in? Most computers are written in computer languages adapted from the English language, using only a hundred or so English words, and using only 26 letter characters, more than enough to fill a keyboard. Actually, the default or de facto universal language is already English, thanks to Shakespeare, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet.
Suggested websites:
https://jakubmarian.com/is-english-a-hard-language/
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0775272.html
https://www.alsintl.com/blog/most-common-languages/
http://www.hutong-school.com/how-many-chinese-characters-are-there
http://blog.esl-languages.com/blog/learn-languages/english/english-language-global-number-one/
Happy New Year 2016!
John Sindayen
