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> If I were given a choice whether to spend hours learning integral calculus or partial differential equations, I’d have most certainly said no! I'd have said.
by musicale 4y ago
> If I were given a choice whether to spend hours learning integral calculus or partial differential equations, I’d have most certainly said no!
I'd have said... yes?
Unfortunately school greatly reduced my enthusiasm for certain subjects – and for reading books.
And my enthusiasm for computing was further diminished when it became something I had to do to survive.
- eternityforest 4y agoThat's one data point. I definitely wouldn't have said yes. I didn't even think math would still be useful today(And in fact, it mostly isn't for non-STEM and non-business people). I didn't know getting a degree would be anything I'd ever want, self taught programmers seemed to do better back then. I was not in any place to predict the future, nor was I ever one of those people strongly motivated by ideas and abstractions for their own sake.