I've ignored math prereqs my entire life and turned out fine. If you're genuinely interested, it's not too hard to learn the math as needed. It might actually be a better way to learn, because you're learning is always in service of other learning.
I haven't taken that Coursera course, but in college, I believe only calc I and II are the prereqs for intro to data structures and algorithms. Though I know solid engineers who understand applied CS who don't have a good grasp of math at all.
> It might actually be a better way to learn, because you're learning is always in service of other learning.
Me in freshman calculus: Why are we learning these Taylor series? It's so boring, and I'll never need to use it
Me three years later in upper-division meteorology: It turns out 90% of what we do is numerical methods because fluid dynamics is hard with limited data.
It's definitely easier for me to learn things when I have an application for it.
I haven't taken that Coursera course, but in college, I believe only calc I and II are the prereqs for intro to data structures and algorithms. Though I know solid engineers who understand applied CS who don't have a good grasp of math at all.