"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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"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.