simple question

[goodguy33]

to all the good devs here in the sro section and in general,how much maths have you studied(if you did) and how important is it in programming?

[Devsome]

Got my A levels in school, so standard Math skills.
Depends on your application.

[AceSpace]

You should know the basic every-day math. If advanced math is needed, you'll learn it while you're learning programming. It shouldn't be an issue anyway.

[magicanoo]

+ - / * % ^ < > = ( )

These are the operators you're gonna need to deal with. If you can use them, Go learn programming. No complicated **** like calculus or algebra (unless you want to write an accounting program for example).

[mxii]

- bitwise operations (AND, OR, NOT, XOR, ..)
- bit shifting (<<, >>)
- Modulo

[​Exo]

Originally Posted by magicanoo

+ - / * % ^ < > = ( )

These are the operators you're gonna need to deal with. If you can use them, Go learn programming. No complicated **** like calculus or algebra (unless you want to write an accounting program for example).

I gotta disagree, "IF" he's talking it seriously, as a career or a profession later then he probably needs some decent math skills. You just limited the use of calculus and algebra to statistical applications which isn't true at all, like AT ALL!

-Graphics related topics in general (video processing, image processing, object modeling, audio handling, etc)
-Optimization and complexity analysis.
-And of course, algorithms and their proof, run-time analysis.
All these requires at least some decent calculus knowledge. Algebra as well, very essential for this kind of stuff.

@: If you know the basics and you really want to take this seriously then there's this one book I'd recommend. I haven't finished it yet but it's a great book written by one hell of a computer scientist/mathematician. It's "Concrete Mathematics" by Knuth. It covers a variety of math topics that you might need.