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> In my opinion, the only type of mathematics that is useful to ALL programmers is discrete math. If we were to think there exists a subset of programmers who
by tchalla 6y ago
> In my opinion, the only type of mathematics that is useful to ALL programmers is discrete math.
If we were to think there exists a subset of programmers who don't find Discrete Math useful, what would those programmers look like?
- mhh__ 6y agoWeb developers, or at least the folks who just do A->B frontend stuff. Without being elitist, I've done some of it and the only stress I felt mentally was due to the baggage of learning the frameworks and things (I might have used an integer or two but nothing more)
- twic 6y agoMore generally (and less insultingly!), any programmers who mostly work with frameworks, rather than writing solid chunks of their own code. I had a job building e-commerce websites on top of a framework. Our code was a thin layer invoking and customising the framework. It was difficult work that we charged a lot for, because it required extensive knowledge of the framework (which was badly designed and poorly documented). But it never involved thinking really hard about programming itself. I would imagine most Rails programmers are in a similar place.
- AnHonestComment 6y agoI think a lot of people really liked discrete math, which is awesome. My experience in industry suggests probability, linear algebra, and category theory are all more useful in practice.