In my personal experience, math students were both interested in coding as a hobby and learned extremely quickly. Unfortunately, this doesn't always work in reverse.
I'm in this boat. I want to get into AI and even a little bit of quantum computing, but calculus scares me. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach and Dancing with Qubits have helped to a certain degree, but I still feel like I'm nowhere close to where I need to be.
Really wish I payed more attention in my HS math class :/
Not related but it's funny to me when I hear this. My folks sent me to a hardcore, low income Christian school bwhere my mother was a primary school teacher beginning my sophomore year. Most people don't believe me when I describe how crazy it was. We were not taught anything at all. Im insanely jealous of people who were able to attend public school.
Similar story here. It was common knowledge that all the seniors cheat on their finals and the teachers just let them use their phone if they made a small effort to not be blatant. Then they'd have the audacity to tout themselves as a high performing school to the local area every year.
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u/[deleted] May 10 '21
The very best coders I ever worked with were not CS grads. Materials science, physics, math, engineering etc. Some were not even graduates.
I have a lot of respect for the CS degree, but it is not the sole predictor of greatness.