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[Discuss] OT: Do CS grads need calculus?
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- From: dbarrett at blazemonger.com (Daniel Barrett)
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 12:35:14 -0400
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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. -- Dan Barrett dbarrett at blazemonger.com
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