[mayanraisins]

I think I’m in your target audience. I’m a developer that studied Computer Information Systems instead of Computer Science to avoid the math classes.

I’ve often wondered if it was the material or how it was delivered that I struggled with. I seem to do better at math when there is a piece grounded in reality, like in physics or geometry. I can use that math to build a deck or calculate how fast an object is moving. Computer programming also falls into this category. I start to struggle when the math isn’t representing anything notable, and instead, just letters and relationships between them floating in space.

As a developer that values good naming and readability, I’m surprised that math uses single character variable names like x, y, h, or k, when it could be named what it is representing. I’m going to assume this is something that carried over from pen and paper, but maybe worth the extra writing when learning.

I have a long list of things I’d like to learn, such as speaking other languages and studying crafts outside of software development, but I do often consider going back to take another shot at math beyond intro Calculus.

Thanks for the resources and the goal of helping people like me. I’ll check them out.