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[Discuss] OT: Do CS grads need calculus?
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- From: gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)
- Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 07:45:11 -0400
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Sorry for the late response. I have found a number of times in my job as a software engineer where having a background in calculus not only helped, but I could not have done the job without it. I currently work in IBM's Risk Analysis group where I do have to deal with mathematicians, but to understand a complex algorithm you need the background even though today, many of these algorithms are canned. But the subject is CS grads. A CS grad generally needs to have a good understanding of algorithms, and to do this calculus helps, especially with the analysis of an algorithm. On many occasions I had to go into some code and find out how to speed it up. On 04/07/2015 11:11 AM, Stephen Ronan wrote: > Perhaps some of you may find of interest this thread: > "Do CS grads need calculus?" > http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/2015/04/sort/time_rev/page/1/ > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:B7F14F2F PGP Key fingerprint: D937 A424 4836 E052 2E1B 8DC6 24D7 000F B7F1 4F2F
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