<p>I'm currently enrolled at my local community college and I'm currently in Elementary Algebra 2 (I really messed up on my assessment test) I plan on transferring to a CSU hopefully in two years. I was wondering how high in math do I have to go as a CS major? Also what fields withIn Computer Science that requires little math application. </p>
<p>I’m barely on my second semester of Computer Science, and I have yet to use any difficult math. I asked my professors the same question and they just said you don’t need to be great at math, you just need to pass it. Don’t worry about it. I’m bad at math too, yet I find programming some what easy. As for how high in math you need to go, (if by that you mean how many courses you have to take), It depends on your school. I only have to take Algebra, Pre-Cal, and Discrete Math and I really don’t know what fields require little math.
I say do what I did…. Just go for it. </p>
<p>CS majors typically need calculus 1 and 2, linear algebra, and (most importantly) discrete math. CS majors within engineering divisions will also typically require calculus 3. Some may also require a probability or statistics course.</p>
<p>Use <a href=“http://www.assist.org”>http://www.assist.org</a> to check course requirements and equivalencies between California CCs and CSUs/UCs.</p>
<p>I’m in the same boat. I’m not “horrible” at math, but I don’t glide though it either. I studied on Khan Academy before taking my placement test at a Community College, but still got a horrible placement because I was in a hurry and nervous. </p>
<p>I took Beginning Algebra last semester, I’m taking Intermediate right now. This summer I will be taking Pre-Calculus. That leaves me with Calc I and II for my second year before transferring. </p>
<p>My sister recently graduated from UMich one of the top colleges for CS. She currently has a job as a programmer and gets paid pretty well. I also am not great at math so I asked her is she uses Calc or any of the advanced math subjects. She told me that she never uses calc or linear or matrix algebra. </p>
<p>You’ll use linear or matrix algebra if you do a bunch of number-crunching. But that’s a small minority of programming jobs. Most programming jobs don’t involve much more than basic arithmetic and elementary statistics.</p>
<p>The biggest math challenge you’d face is trying to get through a typical CS program, which will have a lot of math requirements because that’s just the way it’s always been done.</p>