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Re:Language Aptitude Not Math Predicts Programming Skill by 0xff00ffee on Monday April 13, 2020 @11:55AM (#22856912)
I guess it depends who you are talking about. Computer Scientists are generally great at math, but it doesn't mean they are good programmers. A good programmer has style: from how the code looks, to how it is arranged, test, regressed... to how defensive the code is to soft-failures. I've worked with spectacular computer scientists who wrote compiler kernels, but their code looked like a big pile of... well, you get it.
Re:Language Aptitude Not Math Predicts Programming Skill by tj-teej on Monday April 13, 2020 @01:38PM (#22857981)
Makes sense, as naming is the one of the two hardest problems in programming!

(the other is maintaining distributed cache consistency and catching off-by-one-errors :D)

Re:Language Aptitude Not Math Predicts Programming Skill by tobmlt on Monday April 13, 2020 @03:00PM (#22858875)
Agreed! Questions though... about two... is this two where two comes from 0,1,2 ?

Also, on a relational note, what kind of “and” are you using?

‘Could be my isolation talking, but the further I look into this comment the more dad/logic jokes I see. Caveat: am dad.

Eh hem... I will see myself out.

Re:Language Aptitude Not Math Predicts Programming Skill by anta40 on Monday April 13, 2020 @01:17PM (#22857751)
In general, you don't need to be exceptional at math for doing programming. A basic understanding of arithmetic is sufficient. Okay, perhaps if you work with numerical analysis on daily basis, or doing type theory/lambda calculus/any theoritical computer science stuffs.
Re:Language Aptitude Not Math Predicts Programming Skill by ttizya20 on Monday April 13, 2020 @01:19PM (#22857767)
It's 2020 and the g factor ism't mainstream