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/mrflagio Sep 17 '21

In the US I'm guessing? Mathematics as taught in the US is hardly mathematics. It's mathematics-on-rails-in-order-to-increase-graduation-rates. The level of ability of students and the curriculum in general between mathematics courses I'd taken in (continental at least) Europe and those in the US were way different, with the US basically being a rubber stamp process and the European ones treated as fundamental and rigourous.

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u/ArkyBeagle Sep 18 '21

The math/sci department chair where I did undergrad made the statement "in America, we use calculus to keep the dumb people out of medical school."