When it comes to programming, I’m a bit stumped. I have to say that this is a great little primer for me, because I can’t think of anywhere else to do a better job of programming than this, but I’m curious about stochastic vs deterministic programming. It’s something that I’m going to have to really apply to my life.
It can be hard to know which is harder to code. Im not sure if the developers of the game are trying to make this distinction or if they are just being lazy, or both. Either way it is a great little primer for beginners. Just be aware that although this site is a good resource for all kinds of things, its not really for programming.
In other words, it’s not as simple as you might think. The game of programming is far more complex than simply “programming with a computer.” Programming with a computer is not the same thing as programming with a human brain. This is why most programmers have a hard time doing programming with a computer. Most programming is not just “writing code.” It is more like trying to figure out what the “computer” is thinking.
I know this because I was a programmer for a rather long time. I wanted to be able to have fun. I was also interested in the world of games specifically.
Programmers who have to do programming with human brains will often complain that their software is slow and buggy. This is because most programmers will be spending a large portion of their time coding code rather than simply thinking about what the computer is doing. A programmer who doesn’t spend a large portion of their time thinking about the computer might find programming slow and buggy.
Sure, that can be true, but that doesn’t mean that programmers can’t find ways to reduce lag and speed up their code. Programming is an art. Every programmer I know has had their own favorite technique for programming. My favorite technique was stochastic. Stochastic programming is a process of programming code that is highly random, but still very fast.
Deterministic means that the program is deterministic, meaning that the answer always jumps to the correct answer every time. Stochastic means that the program is slightly unpredictable, but highly predictable. The best stochastic programmers I have seen are, like myself, a mix of the two.
The main reason for the term “stochastic” is that it means that your code is slightly unpredictable in the sense that you don’t make a mistake, make a mistake, or make a mistake when you run into a mistake. It means that when you make a mistake, you stop running into it and instead you make a mistake.
Deterministic means that your program is very predictable. Deterministic programming involves a lot more programming than stochastic programming. Deterministic languages are based on using variables and not doing calculations in the first place.
Most programming languages are deterministic, but the difference is that deterministic languages are much easier to write than stochastic languages. Deterministic languages are based on a very simple set of rules that determine when to run the program and when to stop. A deterministic language such as Java is very easy to write because it requires very little code. Some languages like Haskell provide much more powerful constructs, called types, but are relatively hard to write.