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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 13:30:36 -0400
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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. -- Dan Barrett dbarrett at blazemonger.com
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