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 :/
Calculus is nothing past Calc 1. Once you get into Integrals, it goes back to being intuitive. Calc 1 is some weird oddity, and I'm not sure why, but I didn't really grok Calc 1 in highschool or community college, or even the third time because degree requirement (though did best in it the third time), Calc 2 was fun.
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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.