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You NEED to be good be in math to program.

Whilest for some highly specialist fields you definitly do, but for a lot of jobs things don’t get more complex than calculating averages.

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OTOH, you need to be good at the same kinds of reasoning that leads one to be good at math. Not knowing much math isn’t a problem, but not being able to learn math is probably a dealbreaker.

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I’m bad at math and struggled heavily through calc 2 and barely passed with a D+ but had little issue with data structures and algorithms (except when the algorithms were written in math notation, but still got through it after being explained in a logical set of steps instead).

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10 points

Nail on the head.

The reason programming curriculums are so math heavy is because of teaching logic.

You’re either right or wrong in math. There is ONE answer to the formula. You can sometimes get there different ways though. The logic on your path is the key.

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I’d I unironically say that philosophy and logic classes are extremely helpful for programming.

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When I was in college I took a symbolic logic class taught by the philosophy department that was indeed useful. OTOH, I was told later it was originally created as a CS class and only moved to the philosophy department for political reasons.

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I’d argue that you do need to be good at math to be an effective programmer, it’s just that that doesn’t mean what a lot of people think it means. You don’t need to know all the ins and outs of quadratics, integrals, and advanced trigonometry, but I think you do need to have a really solid, gut-level understanding of basic algebra and a bit of set theory. If you’re the sort of person whose head starts to swim when you see “y=3x+2”, you’re going to find programming difficult at best.

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I don’t even know what a y=3x+2 is but I have no problem with programming, algorithms and data structures

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I don’t think it’s so much about the actual math, but learning good logic and problem solving skills, which math helps with.

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