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Do you have to love math to be successful in IT? No lol - what a fallacy. It's totally acceptable to be a great developer without knowing how to hand code a bub
by bigtoga 18y ago
Do you have to love math to be successful in IT? No lol - what a fallacy. It's totally acceptable to be a great developer without knowing how to hand code a bubble sort or how to calculate the tangent of a klabobble. If you want to work at Google then yes, it's probably a good idea to have a CS degree though. I think this person just isn't really sure what she wants though. "In the end, CS just seemed like a dead end job. I want a career." Huh?
I would assume that more than 80% of IT workers worldwide do not know higher mathematics. I've been an IT trainer for nearly a decade and trained thousands of people as well as worked with many as a consultant and I base my guess on my own exp.
- dgabriel 18y agoYou got downmodded, but it's entirely true that there are very good developers with less than great math skills. That said, CS degrees typically require some mastery of the subject.
- gizmo 18y agoMath for IT? No. For real computer science? Absolutely. If you don't understand math you can't understand all the cool parts of computer science. 3D - it's all math. AI - from minimax to clustering algorithms: math. Writing CRC and hash algorithms: math. Security in general: math. And it goes on and on. If you know math you can build a raytracer in a weekend, like this guy: http://www.superjer.com/pixelmachine/ http://www.superjer.com/pixelmachine/ Really, who wants to build CRUD (DB create/retrieve/update/destroy) applications his whole life?
- keating 18y agoI would personally introduce mathematics into a CS curriculum through heavy use of computer graphics. Having an application for the knowledge makes it suddenly relevant.