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As a software engineer, I wish I had learned stats instead of calculus. Some exposure would have been great, but the high school & university requirements were
by canadaduane 4y ago
As a software engineer, I wish I had learned stats instead of calculus. Some exposure would have been great, but the high school & university requirements were way off target wrt its usefulness in computer science. It was a painful process of learning, failing, and re-taking calculus, squeaking by, only to never use it again. I was a straight-A student otherwise.
- TaylorAlexander 4y agoI get that. As a robotics engineer, some cursory understanding of integrals and derivatives is useful. But what I really mean is that, as a person, I just really enjoyed calculus. I found I was very good at it, and that experience helped me understand why some people choose to focus their career on pure mathematics. I am happy I took calculus not as a means of training for the workforce, but because I found it enriching on its own. And I never would have taken all that time if it wasn't offered to me as a class in public school that counted as credits towards graduation.
- raegis 4y agoWhy is this either/or? I took both calculus and statistics in college. Were you forced to choose one or the other?
- leaflets2 4y agoSeems to me that calculus was required, but stats wasn't, and at the time it didn't seem that important? Where I grew up btw we studied only calculus, integrals and stuff, no stats, in high school. (Stats in uni)