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Anecdata: As a software engineer who studied physics before C.S., it feels like I've had a massively unfair advantage my entire career. Served me very well.
by redsymbol 10y ago
Anecdata: As a software engineer who studied physics before C.S., it feels like I've had a massively unfair advantage my entire career. Served me very well.
- wwweston 10y agoCan you describe the advantage? (Was within a hair of a physics minor before I studied C.S., but might have wiped out the advantage by switching to Mathematics?)
- sampo 10y agoMost of the CS students don't like math, so CS teaching has developed a tradition of only the minimal need-to-know math exposure. But then you have to always operate at the very edge of your math competence, because that is all you were taught. If you have a solid math foundation, then most of the math concepts you face in CS are well within your comfort zone.