How do I get into Computer Algebra? I'm a math student with some basic programming experience...

>It is an algebra interpreter, you moron.

Please read one of these

shut the fuck up you retarded faggot

I get what you say but every CAS needs an interpreter and is, in a manner, just an algebra interpreter.

Sure, the inner workings of the computations and manipulation are a big deal, but all of that is for nothing if you do not have a good way to tell your program what exactly you want it to do and for that you will need an interpreter.

That or you will have to severely restrict what kinds of problems your program can understand and solve.

parsers are not interpreters

>How do I get into Computer Algebra

How to use Computer Algebra software/libraries or how to make them?

>parsers are not interpreters

>In computer science, an interpreter is a computer program that directly executes, i.e. performs, instructions written in a programming or scripting language, without previously compiling them into a machine language program.

And that is why the bit about the computing is important. A CAS is also not just a parser, but a full interpreter and that was my point. However you decide to structure your commands, they form a programming language.

hijacking with a similar question

CAS doesn't execute anything. You're giving it an string, it parses it and computes an operation (diff/int/simplify) on it, and then it returns a string.

>diff("x^2+5") -> "2x"

> c++

inferior to lisp for most purposes

Dunno why but i cannot post on /adv/ for shit despite i love that board, apparently i have a "Connection Error".

Anyway Get into MechEngy with some EE courses and get a CS minor if your school near you doesn't offer Robotics or Electronics major