Now hear me out, there are some apps that are more or less just study guides but I was thinking of something like Duolingo that could handle math inputs up to like calculus levels. I know this is possible because sites like symbolab, Wolfram and even the testing and homework software the schools use can decipher complex functions and determine if they’re correct.
How come no one has made a gamified math tool for people at the college level? One reason ive heard said is “noone is interested” but… Money is very interesting and I know plenty of college students would be drooling for an app like this.
So I’m just asking you all, what do you think would be the big holdout for you as a developer to not take on a project like this. Why do you think no one’s made it?
This is so true of many people.
I was a professional game developer for two decades. I was never formally trained, I am completely self-taught.
I must break things apart and build them up from the individual molecules, in order for me to understand things.
When I learned trigonometry in school, or should I say when they attempted to teach it to me, it flew over my head like a flock of birds. I could understand none of it nor could I understand any of the reasons.
When I started to develop an obsessive passion for programming when I was around 14, and I needed to figure out how to shoot a bullet out of a cannon at a certain angle and break down the components of motion into x and Y… I felt like I invented trigonometry myself in about 3 hours.
People are weird and everybody approaches things differently. I could see myself beginning to Intuit calculus concepts with a game, but at the same time I think it’s such a specialty ask that it’s not realistic.