Nothing is needed in terms of academic training - a good mind can work around lots of things. If you're a poor communicator, you can still develop software, it

Nothing is needed in terms of academic training - a good mind can work around lots of things. If you're a poor communicator, you can still develop software, it's just harder. Same with knowing low level languages, and what goes on in Operating Systems. And math too. We all bring toolsets. The more tools, the better. Also - logic is very much a part of math. Good geometry classes involve a lot of proving. In the end, the lesson from Geometry is proving things as much as it is the sum of angles of triangles between parallel lines.