How will learning discrete mathematics and algorithms improve my ability as a programmer?
not at all
You'll be able to impress higher ups with cool recurrence relations of your algorithms you program
You might be able to write more than database access code for one..
>>53592951
I've never seen recurrence relation used in any real world program desu.
>>53592951
You need to know graphs, algorithms on them and some basic data structures.
>>53592951
Programming is literally applied algorithms. Its like asking how learning how to fire a gun will make you a better infantryman.
You will be able to confuse the code monkeys and have job security.
Discrete mathematics and in particular set laws help form the basis for notation in some networks courses. Studying software eng at unsw
Depends. I think real programmers need that shit for interesting challenges and being on the front of tech (machine learning, image analysis, game engines, etc). I'm a derp non-degree senior webdev and knowing how to structure models and integrate services makes me money above code monkey grade pay. Also having devops skills makes me unique in small teams. Yes, I'm an imposter. But I make dat skrilla.
>>53594993
what type of work do you do mostly? I just signed recently as a software engineer and think webdev is where I see myself going
>>53595047
Lots of stuff.
I authored a suite of bash scripts that run as our automated LAMP backup service on 20+ servers at my full-time job (reports via email and Slack, complete backup rotation, backups onsite and offsite, and logs everything, including alerts on backup-fails).
I've written an integration with (framework-redacted) between several services such as CloudFlare and SiteImprove and Brightcove Video and more and more.
I also do IA planning and implementation.
What makes me happy? Not writing some complex algorithm to solve an interesting math issue with software. What does, is a flawless service migration from one provider to another with 0 down-time.
Of course, I occasionally do the whole webdev thing (front+back-end), depending on the project. But I mostly like working back-end and tying services together. Also, DB schema architecting blows, but anytime I successfully import data from one schema into a complete new one (one framework into another usually), I'm immensely satisfied.
algorithms will give you efficient / quick ways to solve problems but
>discrete mathematics
just skip that meme m8
most programming (at least in my experiences as embedded programmer for ARM, linux system programmer, and web developer) is learning obscure meme abstractions and gluing libraries together (what you want to do is almost always already done by others cuz you aren't as creative as you think), you don't need to learn any special fields unless you directly need to program for those (say a discrete math calculator for ex)
