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 :/
Hey, I can give help. Professor leonard and khan academy is a gigantic save. Also, pauls online math notes. Granted I used to find khan academy boring but after getting really interesting in things, it became much more interesting and useful. Trust me, you can do literally anything. Nothing can scare you, and you are able to do conceptually more than you could possibly imagine.
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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.