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by pryelluw 1960 days ago
But is it math or programming skills you want to measure? Cause math is not programming. Hell, you don’t need to know more than high school math to program.
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You need to know more than high school math to write software in an engineering firm though. It's not about the mechanical act of making a computer do something, it's about knowing what to make the computer do and how to do it most efficiently.
It is a domain specific skill in many domains.