From: Jeremy Henty <jeremy@...>
Date: 2006-08-09T07:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

On 2006-08-08, manowarrior <luchezar.petkov@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2) Do I need lots of math to become a good programmer?

Speaking as a mathematician who later became a programmer, I don't
think there's any maths you *have* to know before learning to program.
There are some areas of maths which are very useful for good
programmers to know, and learning maths is one way of developing the
abstract thinking skills that all good programmers need, but if you're
just starting to learn programming I think the important thing is to
get lots of practise writing programs.  Don't worry about whether you
know enough maths, you can pick it up later if you need to.  For now,
just write programs!

Regards, 

Jeremy Henty