25: Do you need to be good at maths to become a programmer?
Maths and coding often go hand-in-hand. But can you do one without the other?
A Question of Code · Ed & Tom Hazledine
June 24, 201933m 31s
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Show Notes
It's a common assumption that all programmers are maths wünderkinds. But is that necessarily the case? Many coders do come have a strong mathematical background, but does the correlation imply causation? What is like to learn to code when you've previously been a humanities specialist? Can you get by without any maths at all? Find out all this, and more, in this week's illogical instalment of A Question of Code.
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mathsmathmathematicscodingprogramming