[tpr1m]

For years and years I've wasted time in the classroom with Algebra, a skill I will _never_ need in my lifetime. As a computer science major, I find it perfectly equatable to make my math teacher sit through the same amount of time in some of my major-specific classes, since he will get just as much value out of them. Not to mention I have to pay for it.... difficult or not, most math classes simply are not useful. This differs from other "general" classes, such as English.

[jinfiesto]

I find this to be short-sighted. I also program, and have found Algebra to be very useful. Solving a problem trivially with Algebra can sometimes save you lots of programming work. Granted I don't use Algebra in my day to day, I'm glad I know how to do it and have found it useful often enough to say I'd be less of a programmer without it.

[rimantas]

As a programmer I use the most basic skill algebra teaches— manipulating abstractions—every day. I don't get how programmers claim that they have no use in thinking.

[theorique]

A computer science major who never uses algebra? I call shenanigans.