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by rcirka 4525 days ago
For web, front-end, or mobile apps (excluding games), I agree math is not necessary. These type of apps rarely uses math, they simply streamline data and present it on the screen. It can't hurt, but it isn't a criteria when I interview developer.

Of course, once you get into back-end systems, data analytics, and algorithms, math becomes much more useful, if not a necessity.
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at-fates-hands 4525 days ago
Agreed.

I've done quite a bit of front-end work and one of the teams I was on built a large graphing application. It required algebra for some of the plotting routines, but nothing too major.

It wasn't until I got into relational databases that I saw you really needed more applied mathematics to be a good database designer. Then you start to read about Dijkstra and Codd and suddenly realize your HTML, CSS, JS world seemed rather small by comparison.

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blister 4525 days ago
Yeah, and it's REALLY important for graphical programming. Vectors, Matrices, and Quaternions nearly killed me when I started doing work that required it.
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