why do you need to be good at math?

Question

i hear this ALOT!! and yet i never encounter a need for math in c#,c++ or java. Heck! The code itself is a calculator

Answer 1

Nope, you dont need to be good at math. We have calculator nowadays.
You just need to be good at reading equations if you are planning to take some programming specific courses/topic.

Answer 2

for me I use math to control & animate my artwork in javascript beside calculation...not sure for other languages but when I do I'll let yah know ^.^

Answer 3

Maybe you are good at math already? Do you understand bools? Do you know about recursion? You probably use functions. That is math. Math has little to do with numbers and calculations.

Answer 4

Programming doesn't really request strong mathematic knowledge, mostly I use +-/*% and that's enough to build a lot of things. The knowledge of Math really depends on what's your final target. If that's build video games engin, remake Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop/...... that will be strongly necessary but if you want to build applications like Word, that would not be that high request. Personnaly I'm dumb at mathematics but I'm not bloqued by this problem because I got the logical, for the counting, which is the part I'm really bad, I let the computer do it :D