Background

In the past, I’ve always heard people mention “Oh you’re studying Computer Science? You’ll really need math!” and I never understood it. To me, programming was about building things, it wasn’t about applying random formulas or solving for some value of x. I always remarked: “Uh… yeah sure.” without really meaning it. I thought about programming related concepts like web design and could not understand what they had to do with math. However, over the years I’ve been exposed more to different parts of programming and have seen where mathematics comes into play. Game development is the most recent example I’ve come across, so I’ve decided to write about it.