
Language Aptitude Not Math Predicts Programming Skill - ukj
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0xff00ffee
I guess it depends who you are talking about. Computer Scientists are
generally great at math, but it doesn't mean they are good programmers. A good
programmer has style: from how the code looks, to how it is arranged, test,
regressed... to how defensive the code is to soft-failures. I've worked with
spectacular computer scientists who wrote compiler kernels, but their code
looked like a big pile of... well, you get it.

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tj-teej
Makes sense, as naming is the one of the two hardest problems in programming!

(the other is maintaining distributed cache consistency and catching off-by-
one-errors :D)

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tobmlt
Agreed! Questions though... about two... is this two where two comes from
0,1,2 ?

Also, on a relational note, what kind of “and” are you using?

‘Could be my isolation talking, but the further I look into this comment the
more dad/logic jokes I see. Caveat: am dad.

Eh hem... I will see myself out.

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anta40
In general, you don't need to be exceptional at math for doing programming. A
basic understanding of arithmetic is sufficient. Okay, perhaps if you work
with numerical analysis on daily basis, or doing type theory/lambda
calculus/any theoritical computer science stuffs.

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ttizya20
It's 2020 and the g factor ism't mainstream

