![]() Great ideas don't flow out of us with a beginning, a middle and an end-they require an iterative process of divergence and convergence (the ‘double diamond model’, for those familiar). Our brains naturally think in a non-linear fashion. Task management is done in yet another program, and so on.Īt the same time, we noticed how text editors don’t do a good job of supporting thinking. They often spend more time in a text document outlining feature specifications than they do in their design program designing the actual interface. Working in the design industry, we noticed how designers struggle to communicate their ideas with design tools alone. These were passion projects that were fun to build and use. We are also long-time productivity junkies, having built nine different note-taking and task management apps over the past eight years. It was acquired by InVision years ago, where we went on to build numerous other design tools. Our first startup – Macaw – was one of the first no-code tools on the market. Tom started building web-based design products with Apple back in 2011. We've spent our careers working on creative tools. Hi HN, This is Tom, Adam, and Brandon from Clover ( ) – a digital notebook that blends notes, tasks, whiteboards, and a daily planner into one streamlined app. You are smart enough.Launch HN: Clover (YC S20) – Notes, whiteboarding, and daily planner in one toolġ40 points by attasi 7 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 105 comments If you’re interested in CS, please please please don’t pass up an opportunity to learn about it just because math is scary. Take advantage of those!!! I probably wouldn’t have survived calculus without them, but I did! And you can, too! There are free online courses and resources, KA being only one of them, that exist to help you learn at your own pace. So I turned to KhanAcademy, started with a high-school level algebra course and worked my way up, slowly wading back into math until I was ready to swim in it. I hadn’t done any kind of “deep math” in at least three years, and even then, I didn’t totally get it. Honest to gourd, when I decided I was going to go back to college after a few-years-long break, the thought of stepping into a calculus class scared me so badly that I almost wanted to back out. When most people say they’re not good at math, they usually mean they’ve forgotten a lot of it, or it was never taught to them in a way they understood, or they’re overwhelmed because they feel like they’re in a class that’s way beyond where they think they should be. Exercising your problem-solving skills helps a TON with your coding skills. Taking math courses turns your logical brain into a hot logical beefcake.Įxercising your logical brain helps a ton with your problem-solving skills. Math is like a gym for your logical brain. CS majors have to take a lot of math courses because learning math sharpens your brain’s logical skills. And it’s important! Not because you’re going to be thinking about double-integrals while you’re coding (I sure as hell never have). I want to get that point squared away – a lot of people think they’re not smart enough to study computer science just because there are other people in their major who have more coding knowledge/experience than they do, which is, uh, nonsense, because you’re all there to learn.Īnd math is part of that learning. Yeah! You’re smart enough! There’s a lot to learn, regardless of whether you’ve coded before or not. ![]() □ DON’T LET THAT BEAUTIFUL BUT INSECURE BRAIN OF YOURS TELL YOU OTHERWISE ![]() First of all…hold up, let me get my megaphone.įirst of all, □ YOU ARE SMART ENOUGH FOR CS
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