Mathematics

Do you need to be good in mathematics to be a good programmer? I never
was good in math, except for the basics
(addition/subtraction/multiplication and division). Anything beyond
that waved bye bye to me a *long* time ago... I appreciate the
calculator more and more. I always found math boring, but find
computers and programming tremendously fascinating.

Would I be able to get by in programming without any knowledge of
advanced mathematics? Couldn't I just use the good ol' fashioned
calculator? I know you're probably going to say: "It depends on what
kind of programming you intend to do." Well, I do not intend to develop
games or graphic related applications. It just isn't any of my
interest. I really have my heart set on wanting to develop internet and
hardware related applications for DOS and Windows written in the C/C++
and Object Pascal (Turbo Pascal and Delphi) programming languages. The
types of applications I wish to develop are things such as: TCP/IP
clients and servers, serial communications utilities, file manipulation
utilities, etc. I should also mention that I don't intend to make
programming a career...


Steve

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