I am currently a high school freshman and have finished most of the math my school offers. I understand Calculus I/II(BC/Single Variable) and have a relatively good understanding of Calculus III(Multivariate) up to surface integrals. I have some understanding of differential equations, linear algebra, and some real analysis(though very little). What should I study to keep going in math? I am very interested in math and want to keep learning. The few things I have to consider though is that I have to do most of the learning on my own since I know no one who is anywhere near my level at math(well at least no students teacher is probably close) irl. I also am applying to a program called TAMS that basically has you live at college for two years to finish high school. One of the things they want you to do though is take a test at the beginning that is supposed to tell them where you are in math. From what I've heard it goes through linear algebra and differential equations. I would love to do really good at that test and at the least get out of most of the classes so I can do math I haven't already taught myself. thanks for any help.

EDIT: Basically what I'm trying to ask is what should I study next in math? It seems there are a lot of choices and I want to study something interesting, but I also want it to help me later on in college and high school.

I wrote this for my English/World Geography class for school and I wondered what you guys thaought of it. It is my only large piece of fiction I have written. My group said they liked it, but they may have just liked that I wrote the whole thing

http://www.booksie.com/other/short_story/ruler501/doomsday-in-dallas

Any critiques are welcome

We have had two great submissions by Sorunome with MafiaBot and Merthsoft with MineBot for the first Coding Battles Contest. Please try each out and vote for your favorite. After one week the poll will end and the winner will be announced.

This is merthsofts submission

Here's my submission:
http://merthsoft.com/MineBot.zip
There's an instance running on EFNet, just DCC CHAT it if you want to play

This is Sorunomes MafiaBot submission see this topic for usage instructions http://ourl.ca/16715

Thanks, but I didn't know i'd be able to go on internet so soon And you made something wrong in that zip, i thought i told you that some files belong in a folder. Well, here is it now correctly (attached) i didn't change anything, I also include the executable. Compile it with:

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g++ -std=c++0x -pthread main.cpp -o MafiaBot

I'll be glad to see who wins and hope great development continues on both of these wonderful IRC bots

And while the voting is running for this in the original topic thread http://ourl.ca/16662 I am excepting new ideas for the next contest.

EDIT: I just remembered that I didnt put this here and not everyone will read the official rules. Please only vote on omni or on cemetech since otherwise your vote counts twice and its unfair to the competitors to have one person be able to count for multiple

This is my contest idea it is a bot that manages various card games. Post any suggestions here currently I'm thinking

Poker(maybe different kinds...)
Blackjack
Go-Fish
Speed if I can think of a good way to do it

This is a matured version of http://ourl.ca/8809

THE GAMES HAVE BEGUN THE CONTEST WILL END AUGUST 26th AT 2pm CST

The idea of this contest is relatively simple. A poll is posted and people vote for a project idea/theme. Once the poll is completed the contest will be announced and coders will have 3 weeks(subject to change based on contest idea) to complete their submission. To submit their final result they post in the voting topic(which will be made on the last day) within 24 hours. Source code is all that is required for the submission though binaries for windows/linux/mac are encouraged. You make work individually or in a team.

RULES:
1) With your submission make sure you post build instructions including any libraries needed for compiling
2) The work must be done by you or your team no taking others code or having others write it for you
3) You submit your source/binaries within 24 hours of the contest end
4) Your code cannot contain more than 15% code written before the contest started
5) Do not annoy people to test your program
6) Do not vote on both cemetech and omnimaga please limit your votes to just being on one site they will be combined for the final results

Please follow the rules they all have good reasons behind them and everyone I've seen has been doing great work and it would be a shame to be disqualified after working so hard.

The project idea will be decided through a poll. Post your ideas here for inclusion in the poll(which will be made later this week)

FAQ:

Q: What programming languages can I use?
A: There is no assigned language any comp language can be used. You will most likely want to choose languages which are more cross compatible though as anyone who wants to run it and cannot definitely wont be voting for you.

Q: Is this just another game making competition?
A:  Project ideas do not have to be games they can be anything that can be programmed on-comp for comps(excluding websites). The contest will be over making what the community decides is the best idea.

Q: Can we use code from previous projects?
A: You can but it should not be more then 15% of your code. See rule #4

Q: Can I have more than one submission?
A: No we do not want to flood the voters with too many submission and if each person is making 2 or more it could get hectic...

Q: Is this now a cross-site contest?
A: Yes it was suggested that it be crossposted on cemetech and from there it has evolved to the point that there are polls on each site and submissions will be accepted on either.

Q: I use a password in my source can I censor that?
A: Of course you can just leave a comment on the line that says its been censored and you need a real password to run it

Current Project Idea:
IRC bot that plays/manages IRC games. This is a text game that is run by a bot. If the admins approve it maybe there can be and omnimaga-games channel for the winner

Next Project Ideas(pre-poll):
Maze Themed Game
Snake
Tetris
Paint Style program
Map Editor with testing program
Music composition software
2d rts-fps game engine
minesweeper
Jump and Run Game
Red Code like game(program something that plays the game)

Project Ideas that are too general:
AI game
Tools/Utilities
platformer(I may just not understand the category well enough on this though)
Simulation Game

Ideas that can not be in the next contest:
IRC bots/programs

We dont want too close topics to previous ones so we can maintain diversity

I currently play saxophone/clarinet and am going to learn how to play piano probably. I would like to learn how to write good music. What would be a good way to learn how to write good music? I have messed around with musescore before and gotten some success but they never sound quite right. I would also like to know how to understand how music works when listening to it. I would be very thankful for any free online resources for learning.

Attatched is one solo i tried to write about a week ago so you have an idea of what i know(just enough to play the instrument )
EDIT temporarily removed pdf so i could remove my real name

I created Simon the memory game for prizm using pSDL to show the basics of what it can currently do(I'm working on image loading and I may be able to finish before I leave tomorrow).
At the first menu heres what you can do
Press 1 to start it with text at the bottom for which arrow it maps to
press AC/ON to start without the help
press esc to exit

while it is running it will who each color/help if you enabled it for 3/4 of a second and then once all are shown it will go to black and you can start inputing arrows and the screen will change to the appropriate color
if you manage to get to 25 correct you win(the game)

My code is not exactly the best example of SDL code but here it is...

EDIT: fixed error where esc could lock up calc

I was planning on writing a C game that could run on both prizm and nspire and I wanted it to detect which it was being compiled for at build time are there any preprocessor symbols I could use for that?