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I'm glad that the computer science i will be doing won't require things like vectors, etc, because I have no intrest or need for them.
So did I when I had a quite mathematical course on these topics.. but now that I think of it, you'll need vectors and matrices for several things. If you think of a vector as an arrow in a plane then you'll need to know some operations on vectors to for example, calculate 3D graphics (and the coordinates of the system are stored in a matrix). The course on computer graphics is next year but that's what I've heard so it'll become useful then. Or, if you think of a vector as a bunch of numbers in a sequence, then it's basically an array
In the assignment I'm doing now, the idea is to use a genetic algorithm to evolve the numbers in a vector which can be used for an artificial intelligence Reversi (Othello) program.. I admit, you don't need to know much about vectors there because you're just using an array in the code. But on the other hand, if you're a "computer scientist" (that word sounds so much better than the Dutch "informaticus" 
), you should know what a vector or matrix is and preferably a little more than "a certain way to represent a group of numbers" 
So did I when I had a quite mathematical course on these topics.. but now that I think of it, you'll need vectors and matrices for several things. If you think of a vector as an arrow in a plane then you'll need to know some operations on vectors to for example, calculate 3D graphics (and the coordinates of the system are stored in a matrix). The course on computer graphics is next year but that's what I've heard so it'll become useful then. Or, if you think of a vector as a bunch of numbers in a sequence, then it's basically an array
In the assignment I'm doing now, the idea is to use a genetic algorithm to evolve the numbers in a vector which can be used for an artificial intelligence Reversi (Othello) program.. I admit, you don't need to know much about vectors there because you're just using an array in the code. But on the other hand, if you're a "computer scientist" (that word sounds so much better than the Dutch "informaticus" ), you should know what a vector or matrix is and preferably a little more than "a certain way to represent a group of numbers" 
