Math seems extremely important to me as a programmer, even for CRUD apps.
Let's say you graduated HS and slept through your algebra classes. Now a few years later you're a programmer with pretty much no math skills other than what you've learned in elementary school.
Math seems to teach you one of the most fundamental and useful things about programming. The ability to reduce a problem from something that is complex into something that is not complex.
I've only gotten a taste of some basic algebra after taking some online CS courses and really, coming into it with a background of "embarrassingly poor math skills" I can really say that it has changed my life for the better.
I'm still clueless when it comes to some algebra but I find myself looking at problems and being able to solve them much easier now and this is only after a few weeks of programming related courses that happen to use algebra on some occasions.
The math isn't what made it easier. It's applying the same things to solve math problems to programming.
Let's say you graduated HS and slept through your algebra classes. Now a few years later you're a programmer with pretty much no math skills other than what you've learned in elementary school.
Math seems to teach you one of the most fundamental and useful things about programming. The ability to reduce a problem from something that is complex into something that is not complex.
I've only gotten a taste of some basic algebra after taking some online CS courses and really, coming into it with a background of "embarrassingly poor math skills" I can really say that it has changed my life for the better.
I'm still clueless when it comes to some algebra but I find myself looking at problems and being able to solve them much easier now and this is only after a few weeks of programming related courses that happen to use algebra on some occasions.
The math isn't what made it easier. It's applying the same things to solve math problems to programming.