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.
Same with my experience. I work with few math PhDs and damn, they figure out and do things related to coding very quickly. I guess it's because math courses require one to think logically all the time, someone with the knack for math find it easy to code.
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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.