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Discussion on: How important is math in computer programming?

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Daniel • Edited

It really depends on what you are programming. If you want to become a video-games developer, you absolutely need to know maths. Specially geometry and vectors.

For Neural Networks, you will need to know calculus in order to understand the papers.

If you are a web developer and work with a high level programming language, literacy skills are the most important because your main job will be, not making the computer do what you want, but understanding other developers' code and write code that other developers can understand.

Being able to code a big amount of business logic without making a spaghetti mess, is a really important skill to have, and it does not require any knowledge of mathematics.