Serious title: I’m scared of math but I want nothing more than to teach my dropout ass to code so I can stop stocking Shelves and become marketable/desirable to a country that isn’t literally a decade or so away from gassing me.

If it helps, i vibed with python real hard in a 101 course, but all that hexadecimal shit kicked my ass when I signed up for a 103 being cocky and all.

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    2 years ago

    I've been a software engineer for about a decade and don't do much math beyond basic addition/subtraction/multiplication/division or exponents - and most of the math I do only needs to be accurate within a factor of ten. And the computer crunches the numbers for me.

    You won't need to know much hexadecimal or octal or even binary, just know it exists and know how to google "convert binary to base 10".

    I wouldn't sweat it, you'll be fine.

    Good luck comrade! :stalin-heart:

    Edit: also, with all this pressure removed from needing to be good at math, you may find you like it more if you revisit it! Programming is pretty applicable to math if you ever want to try your hand at algebra or calculus for fun on the side. Calculus is actually super cool, there's a lot of really neat patterns and stuff and it's super satisfying when it clicks for you. Plus no one is grading you on it :)

    • pink_mist [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      It looks like OP was pursuing a traditional degree and if that is the case, they're going to face a shitload more math. OP could probably be a fine developer but they need a path from shelf stocker to dev career.

      • crime [she/her, any]
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        2 years ago

        Ah yeah, degree program will be an assload of complicated math that no one needs — i'd interpreted their post about thinking about doing a bootcamp or something

    • BetterBunkersBureau [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I believe you. Do you happen to have any self-taught/boot camp coworkers? I’m kinda asking out of seeking to emulate reasons.

      • crime [she/her, any]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, I've worked with some brilliant engineers that came out of bootcamps and I think everywhere I've worked had had at least one bootcamp or self taught engineer.

        Actually come to think of it, the senior engineer I'm trying to poach from a former company came from a non traditional path like that too — a lot of my favorite coworkers have.

        One bootcamp coworker from my very first full time job who started it of bootcamp around when I did started out of college (+ internships) — we compared salary once and she started 20% below me but caught up in about 3 years.