[Discuss] OT: Do CS grads need calculus?
Daniel Barrett
dbarrett at blazemonger.com
Tue Apr 7 12:35:14 EDT 2015
Math... definitely. Calculus? Probably not.
Programmers will definitely benefit from learning algebra, geometry,
graph theory, and combinatorics. Maybe some probability & statistics
too. Any of these subjects can teach you to be rigorous and precise as
well as calculus can.
Personally, I haven't used calculus in three decades. OTOH, there are
certainly domains of programming that require explicit knowledge of
calculus to solve problems.
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Dan Barrett
dbarrett at blazemonger.com
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