[nv-vn]

Highly agree. As a current high school student, I've gone out of my way to study discrete math. Though I found calculus interesting, it's not particularly applicable to any part of CS except for a few concepts. OTOH, DM is incredibly useful for practically everything, which is what led me to seek it out.

[aoki]

if your interests tend toward machine learning, you may run into calculus again. in particular, if you keep going past the "train a neural network" phase (for which very basic calculus is fine) to the optimization problems that are under the hood of most ML algorithms, you wind up in the land of functional analysis.