Is it normal that i enjoy computer programming, but i am not good at math?

I like programming, but I'm no good at math. I feel like programming requires a lot of math, and I don't feel smart enough to do it, but I am in college for it.

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  • handsignals

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    • thegypsysailor

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      • handsignals

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  • Sumi

    Spent 6 years working under an expert programmer who worked for a major defense company in the United States. We talked about all sorts of things and one of them was how bad he was at math. Good to know but programming does not require it.

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    • IPaidForWinrar

      That's a relief!

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  • Anime7

    I took one computer programming class and it did not require a lot of math, but that doesn't mean that it was difficult. It was pretty tough. Honestly though don't say that you're not smart enough to do something. Do you have any idea how crazy awesome the mind is? It can hold and comprehend a lot of information. When it comes to you though all you have to be willing to do is put in the effort into understanding the material. If you face a challenge don't give up, face the problem and keep trying to approach it in different ways until you get the solution. Because honestly, nobody is ever too dumb to solve a problem, it's usually just a matter of asking yourself how much effort you want to put in to understanding the problem before you give up.

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    • IPaidForWinrar

      Thanks, that really made me feel a lot better! I honestly didn't think this was normal at all.

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  • thegypsysailor

    Unfortunately your teachers let you down. With the introduction of calculators into the classrooms, the school system created whole generations of Americans that are "bad at math".
    Pushing buttons and receiving an answer on a screen, with little thought involved, has become the American Way. It seems that so many Americans have no real life left and (as witnessed on here in so many posts) hide away in their rooms with their computers, bemoaning their lonely, pointless, empty lives.

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    • Couman

      The problem may in fact be the opposite, that they still make people do calculations on paper and tell them it's "math". But really it's just arithmetic, the part the computer will be handling anyway. While being able to do arithmetic on paper is a moderately handy skill, schools spend to much time on it give people the impression that being good at it is a perquisite for the real math.

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      • IPaidForWinrar

        This is completely true. I feel like the math I do now is trivial.

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    • RomeoDeMontague

      This is so true its not even funny.

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  • GreyWulfen

    It's a common misconception that you have to be a pro in maths to be good at programming. You really just need logical thinking rather than pure knowledge of mathematical rules.

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    • IPaidForWinrar

      I'm a lot better at logic than I am at anything else. :)

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      • GreyWulfen

        Then I really don't see much of a problem.

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      • GoraIntoDesiGals

        Did you really pay for Winrar?

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  • Terence_the_viking

    Good lucjk.

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    • IPaidForWinrar

      Thanks! :)

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