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I’d say for most software jobs calculus is not required?

• Jensson 5y ago
  If you don't work in webdev or the equivalent mobile apps then it is important for quite a lot of jobs. If you work in webdev then I agree there is not many reasons to get a degree, but what if you want to work in some other fields where it helps? I really doubt that the number of people who works in webdev matches how many people have a passion for webdev, feels like many would prefer to work in fields which requires a bit more technical skills than that. Math is the fundamental building block for doing so many interesting things with programs, so to me every interesting programming job requires boatloads of maths. Sure you can do forms and crud and authorization checks and messaging apps and large distributed systems etc without maths, but that doesn't sound terribly exciting to me.
  • katbyte 5y ago
    I used to write device drivers, advanced math never came up. I did devops and wrote applications still no advanced math. Like I enjoy the fact I know calc but I’m not about to oversell it’s usefulness for most programming. Math is not the fundamental building block of software imho, logic is.