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How Good at Math Does a Programmer Need to Be? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm working my way to a CS degree and am currently slogging my way through an 8-week Trig course. I barely passed College Algebra and have another Algebra and two Calculus classes ahead of me.

How much of this will I need in a programming job? And, more importantly, if I suck at Math, should I just find another career path?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Depends on the industry and depth you want to go to, gamedev for example you can do without any, but all lower level custom graphics and physics are pretty calculus heavy.

Website dev can be entirely independent of math

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ya, in gamedev you just need triginometry, lerp, quaternions, matrix multiplications and basic 3D math and maybe some more.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Me opening rpgmaker to do some matrix multiplication

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