r/firstweekcoderhumour • u/nevemlaci2 • 18d ago

mathsIsTheEnemy

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u/FemboysHotAsf 17d ago

If you cant even do the most basic of basic algebra, then yeah programming will be difficult, but mannn how do people think this

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u/CrashBugITA 17d ago

i had professors tell me this, someone even said I needed good CHEMISTRY knowledge. so yeah very first week coder humor but because everyone has been telling them the same thing

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u/nevemlaci2 17d ago

ikr, I work in the auto industry and dont even want to drive or know anything about cars really lol

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u/slaymaker1907 16d ago

I’m far from a first week coder, but the math that my coworkers do (strats/quants) is far beyond me. Trying to review their code is kind of like this meme.

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u/nevemlaci2 16d ago

I do a lot of time-series analysis in Python at work but I delegate all of that to numpy/pandas lol

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u/slaymaker1907 16d ago

Oh they use both, but I still have little idea what they’re doing.

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u/dumch 15d ago

bullshit

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u/ThePanhther 13d ago

The programm shall do the maths. Like just having a testing programm and trying out how I need to align the numbers because its simpler than calculating it myself.

But you probably should understand the expressions, even if not solving them