The lead up to calculus is brutal. I did poorly in high school math, got my requirements finished by the grace of BYU online. Never took precalc. Then in colleg

The lead up to calculus is brutal. I did poorly in high school math, got my requirements finished by the grace of BYU online. Never took precalc. Then in college I crammed for the placement exam and got directly into the upper level calculus track - and from then on I loved math. Unfortunately in the traditional track, calculus is the first and only class that "makes sense", as in someone would want to take it. But it takes years of preparation (supposedly). In the meantime like you I took some interest in programming.