As programmer (20+ years of experience) with a master degree in engineering, I think I can compare programming with calculus. In general, calculus is continuou

As programmer (20+ years of experience) with a master degree in engineering, I think I can compare programming with calculus. In general, calculus is continuous, while most of programming is discrete. I dare to say that you can be a very good programmer without knowing derivatives and integrals, which are only at the very basis of calculus. Most formulas used while programming, have already been derived by a physicist or mathematic. Most (99 per cent) of programming paradigms can be fully understood and applied without calculus. I learned about exponential functions, logarithms and for loops way before knowing calculus.