Re: Programming skills required by mathematicians?

"rAgAv" <ragav.payne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Hello,
>
> I'm a highschool graduate and I'm going to major in Mathematics this
> Fall. I would like to have a foundation in programming so that it
> would be useful in my later career as a mathematician with interests
> in logic, numerical analysis, formal systems and that sort.
>
> I don't know enough technicalities to seek the right sort of
> programming that I should learn now. I wish to hear advice on what
> sort of programming skills a pure mathematician would find useful.
>
> Regards.
>
> PS - At the moment, I know only the basics of C++.

An excellent choice. Whilst its not the simplest language to learn, you
have 
start already. Its widely available on range of platforms, is completely 
general purpose, great for building abstract data structures (trees, hash 
tables, matrices etc), and has been around so long and so widely that
there 
lots of code libraries you can access, on line tutorials etc.