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Is not that god damn hard. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a software engineer of 10 years. I've had a few roles during that time. Sr Engineer. Architect. Director of Engineering. Not only have I almost never used any math every time I did I copy pasted the algo to use from stack overflow or similar tech blogs. I did terrible at math in HS, never took calc struggled with trig and graduated HS with a 2.7 gpa and never went to college. Who the fuck started this meme of programming === math. The only thing close to math in programming I've done is when I learned the basics of lambda calculus when I was flirting with learning functional programming

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

it's because computer science is essentially a branch of math. it's just that you don't actually need to understand computer science to use a computer