<p>What kind of math skills do programmers use? I've always heard that CS requires a ton of math but I'm wondering how its applied?</p>
<p>depends where you work/ what you work on</p>
<p>I know some people from pixar were looking for CS interns familiar with sparse matrices lately.</p>
<p>the majority of programmers dont have to use linear algebra like some computer graphics stuff demands, I would say the key skill a CS person needs is utter logic … no real math is needed for most applications (at least not stuff that requires training and rigorous study)</p>
<p>I haven’t seen a single programmer that has actually used advanced math to do anything. That’s not saying such jobs don’t exist, rather that most programming jobs have little to no math at all. The real world is much less mathy than the academic world.</p>
<p>Yay, good news for me =D Although my program requires dif. eqts -_- Although I hear its not too bad…although I am interested in comp graphics</p>