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True - you can't go too far in programming without math.
by positivity89 10y ago
True - you can't go too far in programming without math.
- jordanlev 10y agoI very much disagree. I suppose it depends on how exactly you define "far"... but I've been a professional programmer for 15 years now, and have very little math skills (maybe some algebra? mostly forgotten by now, and calculus always escaped me). As a web developer, most of my skill have to do with designing user interfaces and API's, learning various libraries/languages/frameworks, defining problems, estimating, communicating with other humans, etc.
- prof_hobart 10y agoWithout basic maths, sure. But I've had a 30 year career in software development (covering everything from low level comms software in the 80s through to workflow automation software today) and I never got further than A level maths - which for non-Brits, is the exams you typically do at around 18. I don't feel the lack of a university maths background has ever particularly held me back.
- coldtea 10y agoQueue in the "but I've done decades of CRUD apps/websites without math".