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I majored in math. If you're doing full-stack web dev (what this guy seems to be doing), it's useless. You'd only need math if you were doing something like mac

I majored in math. If you're doing full-stack web dev (what this guy seems to be doing), it's useless. You'd only need math if you were doing something like machine learning or computer graphics. And like I said, there's nothing you learn in school that you can't learn online. Math classes especially tend to be taught straight from the textbook.

WalterBright 12y ago
Learning how to use calculus to solve engineering problems doesn't come from a math book, it comes from engineering classes. Not knowing math can shut you out from many forms of programming such as (as you suggested) graphics programming. > there's nothing you learn in school that you can't learn online That's pedantically correct, and I'm sure such people do exist, but I've simply never encountered one in 35 years of working in the industry.
- JDiculous 12y ago
  There's nothing pedantic about it. Out of all the internships/jobs I've had, the far majority of anything I ever did was learned on the job. Often it was without much help or direction, and thus I was forced to teach myself. Although school definitely has its advantages, a huge drawback is that it gets you accustomed to being hand-holded through everything, rather than forcing you to being autodidactic and independent.
  - WalterBright 12y ago
    It's been said, and is my experience as well, that college teaches you how to learn. You majored in math, evidently in college, so you had that benefit as well. Possible or not, I still don't know anyone who learned math outside of college.
    - JDiculous 12y ago
      College didn't teach me how to learn. Working a job where I was forced to learn (because my paycheck and the company itself depended on it) taught me how to learn. In the real world, there's no answer key, and no professors or TAs handholding you. Nobody learns math outside of college because nobody needs to (of course there are exceptions).

WalterBright 12y ago

Learning how to use calculus to solve engineering problems doesn't come from a math book, it comes from engineering classes. Not knowing math can shut you out from many forms of programming such as (as you suggested) graphics programming. > there's nothing you learn in school that you can't learn online That's pedantically correct, and I'm sure such people do exist, but I've simply never encountered one in 35 years of working in the industry.

JDiculous 12y ago
There's nothing pedantic about it. Out of all the internships/jobs I've had, the far majority of anything I ever did was learned on the job. Often it was without much help or direction, and thus I was forced to teach myself. Although school definitely has its advantages, a huge drawback is that it gets you accustomed to being hand-holded through everything, rather than forcing you to being autodidactic and independent.
- WalterBright 12y ago
  It's been said, and is my experience as well, that college teaches you how to learn. You majored in math, evidently in college, so you had that benefit as well. Possible or not, I still don't know anyone who learned math outside of college.
  - JDiculous 12y ago
    College didn't teach me how to learn. Working a job where I was forced to learn (because my paycheck and the company itself depended on it) taught me how to learn. In the real world, there's no answer key, and no professors or TAs handholding you. Nobody learns math outside of college because nobody needs to (of course there are exceptions).