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I gave up maths as soon as I could at school (16) and didn't study it for an A-Level. It was required for my CS degree, but they let me in without it. I had to
by iamben 6y ago
I gave up maths as soon as I could at school (16) and didn't study it for an A-Level. It was required for my CS degree, but they let me in without it. I had to apply myself a little more to pass the maths modules, but I don't think maths has really been important to me or my career.
I can totally understand WHY maths would be important for some programmers (and why thinking mathematically would help), but "programming" covers such a spectrum - for me it's always felt more like the Lego I spent my entire childhood building was more important. Somewhere between logic and creativity.
- mattlondon 6y agoSame here, although my degree didn't require maths A-level. There are times when I wonder "hmm would I have known this alreay had I done A-level maths at school?" but that I think is general imposter syndrome more than anything. At least for me, I've never needed anything particularly special maths-wise for professional work, apart from derivatives for ML/AI and even that was just academic-self-pleasuring from the course I took... no ML library requires you to mathematically prove something before you can use them (at least not the ones I have used)
- ashconnor 6y agoI did A Level Maths and I don’t recall any of it showing up when I did my degree at the University of Liverpool.