Being goot at math.
I actually graduated in Mathematics and became a developer by chance. But when it comes to those seldom problems that deal with abstraction, generalization, visualization and figuring out how things work from a bunch of data I feel like I have an edge over my colleagues.
It's not something that's always necessary, but it's good to have in a team, and I think it helped me improving some other developer skills.
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Being goot at math.
I actually graduated in Mathematics and became a developer by chance. But when it comes to those seldom problems that deal with abstraction, generalization, visualization and figuring out how things work from a bunch of data I feel like I have an edge over my colleagues.
It's not something that's always necessary, but it's good to have in a team, and I think it helped me improving some other developer skills.
This is a great articulation of math.
I too have a degree in math, yet I rarely use algebra or calculus for programming. Instead its all about abstractions (and sets).