[Discuss] OT: Do CS grads need calculus?

Daniel Barrett dbarrett at blazemonger.com
Tue Apr 7 13:30:36 EDT 2015


On April 7, 2015, Mike Small wrote:
>How do write a statistics text book without any calculus?

Yeah, that's why I said "maybe" probability and statistics. :-)

I haven't needed calculus for three decades as a software developer
(YMMV), except during a school assignment to write a LISP program that
calculates derivatives. That was a fun assignment BTW. Really drove
home why LISP rocks.

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Dan Barrett
dbarrett at blazemonger.com




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