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Maths for web dev? You don’t need any maths beyond what you’ll learn in junior school: Arithmetic Basic algebra Basic Boolean logic That’s it. You’ll mostly
by usgroup 7y ago
Maths for web dev? You don’t need any maths beyond what you’ll learn in junior school:
Arithmetic
Basic algebra
Basic Boolean logic
That’s it. You’ll mostly be wrangling interfaces and/or api/DB plumbing. Making things testable and repeatable. Reliable. Etc.
In my experience most programmers are useless at maths. Mathematicians and programmers are mostly separate populations and it’s relatively rare to find a solid programmer that’s also a solid mathematician or vice versa: totally different set of aesthetic preferences.
Meanwhile you will find plenty of programmers that skim a book on graph theory and think they know something. Or mathematicians that write crap matlab code and say they can programme.
- Viliam1234 7y agoAlso, knowing math will make you think about how you could solve the problem, while everyone else's first reaction is "there is probably already a library for that". And there usually already is a library that does a similar enough thing. Therefore, knowing math will leave you endlessly frustrated, because the kinds of tasks you would like to do are exactly the kinds of tasks you shouldn't be doing.