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by cognisent
416 days ago
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It was my grades in math that ultimately failed me out of my undergraduate CS program. My university had: Calculus 1, Calculus 2, Linear Algebra, Vector Geometry, Multi-Variable Calculus, Applied Combinatorics, Discrete Math, Differential Equations and maybe more that I don't remember. So many that CS majors could take one more math class and get a minor. Yeah, I never thought this made sense, but so many people did; and, I always hear people on Slashdot talking about how programming IS math. None of that has been my personal experience, and I'm coming up on 21 years as software engineer. Discrete was the ONLY math course that I really enjoyed and did well in the first time around. For me, this always made sense. |
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I can count the times I've ever applied math past approximately high school algebra 1, on one hand. Period, in private life, in hobbies, at work. I'm not sure I've ever used any "college level" math, for anything at all.
I've, and other programmers I've known, gotten excited on the very few occasions anything even slightly mathematically-tricky came up, precisely because it almost never happens.