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[Discuss] OT: Do CS grads need calculus?



Sorry for the late response. I have found a number of times in my job as
a software engineer where having a background in calculus not only
helped, but I could not have done the job without it. I currently work
in IBM's Risk Analysis group where I do have to deal with
mathematicians, but to understand a complex algorithm you need the
background even though today, many of these algorithms are canned. But
the subject is CS grads. A CS grad generally needs to have a good
understanding of algorithms, and to do this calculus helps, especially
with the analysis of an algorithm. On many occasions I had to go into
some code and find out how to speed it up.


On 04/07/2015 11:11 AM, Stephen Ronan wrote:
> Perhaps some of you may find of interest this thread:
> "Do CS grads need calculus?"
> http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/2015/04/sort/time_rev/page/1/
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