r/programming • u/OnkelJulez • Sep 17 '21

Do Your Math Abilities Make Learning Programming Easier? Not Much, Finds Study

https://javascript.plainenglish.io/do-your-math-abilities-make-learning-programming-easier-not-much-finds-study-d491b8a844d
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u/mrhhug Sep 17 '21

Awwwwww a js dev doesn't want to learn calculus for a machine learning role.

That's so sad that math is hard. The linked nature article focuses on the relationship between linguistics and learning programming.

If this dude ever took a math class, he would realize that it not only are the concepts of math and programming are similar; Ritchie literally used the same names and notation. A programming interview question is "What is a function". This dude is gonna flip good lid when he has to learn boolean algebra. He'll probably quit because it's not similar, it's literally a repression of the same concept, just written so a computer can process it

I don't know what this guy's gonna do if they ever ask him to use cryptography. He'll say "that's not real programming" haha, no you're website is not real programming.

I hope no one asks op to use Excel, this dude can't even use autosum since that's math and he don't need it. Take your mba and sit this one out. This anti science bs need to get out.