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iam13islucky
7y

I'm a CS student, and I'm having serious doubts. I love programming and my job on campus has me making a .net site and such which I enjoy.
However, I'm doing really bad in calculus again, and if I fail it I may never get to retake it because it's my third try. I know I can get a job without a degree, but I'm unsure if I even want to program anything that would require knowledge of calculus anyway. I understand what it accomplishes, but I don't want spend the rest of my life applying calculus. Is it really that important in industry? Or is it just something college puts an undue pressure on?
My CS courses don't challenge me much, and I enjoy them a little, but is being great at calculus required?

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  • 1
    7y
    No. I never took calculus in college and didn't do well with it in high school. I also majored in Digital Media and not CS, so your mileage may vary. But if you can still get your degree and plan on doing web stuff, I doubt you'll run into any problems that will require a working knowledge of calculus.
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    7y
    @Pythoneer I see where you are coming from, but I just don't agree. I'm a one and done kinda guy, and when I find a way to solve it, I implement it and move on. I have a shitty memory and don't enjoy constant repetition. Calculus is remembering rules and applying them over and over
  • 2
    7y
    Sadly you're pretty much just going to have to suck it up and deal with it. You'll probably never need calculus in a dev job unless you end up doing something really niche, but to get the degree you're going to have to find a way to live with it.
  • 1
    7y
    To summarize what everyone said

    You're not going to need it on most gigs. So:

    http://youtu.be/ZXsQAXx_ao0
  • 1
    7y
    Counter strike student? ? Haha jk
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