As a life long programmer who has also led teams of other programmers I would say lighten up on the expectation of formal math. While this example sounds a real

As a life long programmer who has also led teams of other programmers I would say lighten up on the expectation of formal math. While this example sounds a real good one, there are different kinds of programmers who excel and conventional maths aren’t consistently their strong suit (though logic and algorithmic thinking may be imperative.) One thing which is curious, how many good programmers aren’t formally trained as programmers. I once worked for a guy who began as a finance geek who started his own million dollar company by teaching himself how to program. One thing that impressed me was his ability to sit down and power through things until he got them done. Unlike myself, who avoids doing work until the perfect solution emerges from the problems’ complexity (and then writes the minimum amount of code in the most abstract form to get the job done.) Success takes many forms, so exclude nothing by expectation!