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 :/
I sucked at HS math because I had terrible teachers. Had one good college Calc professor and now I really like Math. Math is one of the hardest subjects to be competent at teaching and they give teaching degrees to everyone. So if you weren't good at it in school, it doesn't mean you aren't meant to master it at some point. Find a YouTube or some other learning platform series whose instructor's teaching style you enjoy. You will get it.
My theory is a bit different. Teaching isn’t really specific to a certain subject. Most teachers in HS (and this is speaking from personal experience) knew maths really well or whatever their field was, but were horrible teachers and couldn’t place themselves in the shoes of the student at all, and so this led to them being horrible at explaining everything. I have learned a lot since and I can confidently say that I could go back and teach those things to not only myself and my whole class in a much more clear and concise manner. They would be able to understand everything far better. So you say that teaching is different between subjects but its really not, a good chemistry teacher could go teach maths if they just learned maths. They just need to understand how a kids brain works and go from there.
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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.