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You don't know what you don't know. You can have a fine career in programming without math -- but with math you can have many great careers.
Keep taking math and working hard at it. Stop when it gets too hard.
Two of my three favorite classes in college were math classes -- combinatorics and algorithms.
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You don't know what you don't know. You can have a fine career in programming without math -- but with math you can have many great careers.
Keep taking math and working hard at it. Stop when it gets too hard.
Two of my three favorite classes in college were math classes -- combinatorics and algorithms.