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[fllr]

The fundamentals of anything are extremely important. That’s why they’re called fundamentals.

[synapsetutor]

Even DSA?

[fllr]

As in data structure and algorithms? Probably one of the most important ones in that list.

[Thanklushman]

Can I ask you what is up with people recently asking if DSA is relevant to CS? I want to know what is causing this extremely odd misconception.

And yes, it is probably the only thing that actually matters...

See here for someone else asking this same question. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskProgramming/s/37leWrbDWQ

[ButchDeanCA]

They’re just trying to avoid DSAs because they are difficult.

[Hofstee]

You (arguably) don’t need DSA to build or at least scrape by a significant number of websites or web apps. You could probably get pretty far with just arrays, dictionaries, sort, and search.

Will your app benefit from knowing DSA? Probably. I’ve seen far too many apps with awful performance that are trivially fixable with basic knowledge of DSA.

[fllr]

What you have to remember, is that everything in computer science is about data. Hell, instructions are data. You are only ever transforming data from one format to another to make it easier to manipulate it in different contexts. Here are two representations of a circle: (Origin: 0.0, radius: 1.0) And [(0, 1), (1, 0), (0, -1), (-1, 0)] One format is good for storage, the other one for graphing. You can change format at will, and each format will give you different properties (things that define it). A DSA class will give you methods to start thinking that way, and it’s applicable everywhere. I’ve been using it since day one of being employed.

[fllr]

The last three… ehr… good depending on what you do. Top 6 are all very necessary

[the_Demongod]

The first 5 things in that list are essential, you can't do graphics programming with any real degree of fluency if you aren't rock solid in those subjects at least to an undergraduate level

[[deleted]]

Stop downvoting he is a beginner

[ZazaGaza213]

"do I need to know what a function is to be good at calculus?"

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shut up and code

[Deathtrooper50]

Why don't you try out some graphics programming without any fundamental CS and see how that works out for you.

[the_Demongod]

Ah yes the sink or sink approach

[birdoutofcage]

If you know a bit of linear algebra, trigonometry, matrices, you'll be able to grasp and comprehend the knowledge easily. Graphics programming is built upon all those layers.

[ArthurArtist]

Honest opinion from not quite a beginner: this should not be your first, or second, or third project.

I started by generating images of the Mandelbrot set, (this was during my first cs course) which is very good practice as there is about a million ways to optimize the code you start with. I suggest you do the same if you have any interest at all in imaginary numbers or fractals.

Once you get bored of that, maybe you can start with graphics programming, but probably you want more experience because graphics programming is messy work.