Algorithms are math. Logic is math (and philosophy). Finance is math. Statistics is math. Metrics (QA, Marketing, Business) are math.
Math is a large field of study. There are obviously portions of coding that have nothing to do with math, but the vast majority of it involves math in some way.
I find it hard to believe that somebody could be a good coder without being good at least some aspects of math.
Be leary of coders who say they don't know, or don't like math.
"Be leary of coders who say they don't know, or don't like math."
This is a silly statement, how does a preference to a potentially unrelated field of study relate to the skill of the developer?
Web developers very rarely need any advanced math concepts for example. If you're not gonna hire a web developer because he doesn't like maths you're gonna have a hard time hiring. In fact from my personal experience most developers don't like maths. In Romania they go to Informatics universities as opposed to Mathematics-Informatics ones in order to evade a large part of maths.
Do you disagree with my assessment of the breadth of the math discipline? Or are you really saying that a coder could get away without know any math what-so-ever?
I said advanced mathematics, you obviously can't get away as a programmer without knowing basic maths.
However generalizing that a programmer who hates maths is a programmer you should avoid is beyond silly. It depends on the subfield. If you're gonna hire a game engine developer who doesn't know trigonometry or linear algebra of course you're gonna have a bad time, but if you're hiring a mobile developer you don't care how good he is at calculus.
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Algorithms are math. Logic is math (and philosophy). Finance is math. Statistics is math. Metrics (QA, Marketing, Business) are math.
Math is a large field of study. There are obviously portions of coding that have nothing to do with math, but the vast majority of it involves math in some way.
I find it hard to believe that somebody could be a good coder without being good at least some aspects of math.
Be leary of coders who say they don't know, or don't like math.
"Be leary of coders who say they don't know, or don't like math."
This is a silly statement, how does a preference to a potentially unrelated field of study relate to the skill of the developer?
Web developers very rarely need any advanced math concepts for example. If you're not gonna hire a web developer because he doesn't like maths you're gonna have a hard time hiring. In fact from my personal experience most developers don't like maths. In Romania they go to Informatics universities as opposed to Mathematics-Informatics ones in order to evade a large part of maths.
Do you disagree with my assessment of the breadth of the math discipline? Or are you really saying that a coder could get away without know any math what-so-ever?
I said advanced mathematics, you obviously can't get away as a programmer without knowing basic maths.
However generalizing that a programmer who hates maths is a programmer you should avoid is beyond silly. It depends on the subfield. If you're gonna hire a game engine developer who doesn't know trigonometry or linear algebra of course you're gonna have a bad time, but if you're hiring a mobile developer you don't care how good he is at calculus.