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Counter point - I am terrible at Maths, like awful. I failed Maths for Computer Science in my degree but managed to get a pass on it as all my other grades wer
by xs83 4y ago
Counter point - I am terrible at Maths, like awful.
I failed Maths for Computer Science in my degree but managed to get a pass on it as all my other grades were great. Overall it has really not affected my life in any way or my career throughout my 15 years as a code monkey through many roles into now a CTO position for the past 5.
There are a lot of things and patterns you pick up as you go, and maybe I just got lucky and was in the sweet spot of tools developing fast enough to act like a permanent crutch for lack of mathematic ability.
I guess this is different if I were planning to be a game programmer but for a web focused engineer it has been absolutely fine
- HideousKojima 4y agoI would agree, your typical dev writing CRUD apps needs an ok grasp of algebra, and that's about it.
- Myrmornis 4y agoWhat would you say they need the algebra for?
- HideousKojima 4y agoLet's suppose the business logic in your basic CRUD app needs to calculate some value based on one or several DB fields. You need to know enough algebra to convert that into a formula that you can use in code.
- analog31 4y agoI've worked with lots of engineers and programmers who are in the same boat, and they do just fine. I personally think that a person has to be genuinely interested in math beyond maybe high school algebra, in order to do anything with it beyond passing their college classes. A few of us are happy to take care of math for everybody else. I'm in that boat. And I can't even honestly say it's gotten me further then the math-averse folks, but maybe it's helped me compensate for some of my other deficiencies.