Do you have to be good at math to be successful in Computers

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Maths is pretty essential for programming and getting a uni degree in IT, not in networking or graphics design AFAIK though.
So guess it depends on what you're planning too study really, FYI keep up with your maths practise, i quit high school maths in grade 11 (told my teacher i was going too study for other classes in maths) then went and tried to do a computer science degree and realised i would have too go back and learn all the stuff i didn't in high school. doh.

NOPE! Maybe to get a degree, but not to program. 6502, macro, 8086, etc... Were ASSEMBLY languages even! Outside of things like more complex math on the 6502 with no math library, you don't even need math for THAT!

HECK, one app I wrote was a VERY complicated amortization routine that used roots, exponents, etc.... To determine any value given all other values with varable values including pay frequency, year length, etc.... Even THAT didn't really require math knowledge. We were REQUIRED to use a standard formula which is public domain.

That was far and away the hardest math rountine I had to do. Outside of some graphic programming maybe. It was originally done in DIBOL, and then rewritten in VAX MACRO. I rewrote the VAX MACRO version in C.

BTW Networking DOES require some math! Maybe even more than a lot of programming! You have to determine network saturation, cable length, and and/or things like subnet masks! On SMALLER networks, these limits will never be reached, and the subnet masks are given, or perhaps 255.255.255.0.(One friend of mine went into networking. He was even an MCSE!(Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer) He was at his new job for a few months, and actually called me about this. He never understood it, and had to get a crash course from me!) In larger companies though, you MIGHT just have to put pen to paper.

Anyway, all I am saying is don't think you need to know calculus, etc... to program. I almost WISH that was the case, there would be less "competition", etc...

Steve

It's for the degree. I know because it's what I'm going for. Not that I mind that requirement but I can see where some would.

eh.. i think math is more for the 'benefits for the brain' than actual application of the math itself

mikh07, it's really a crap shoot, applications of math come out of left field sometimes. I recall a TA I had tell me about an individual doing research for applications in radiology, which apparently, has something to do with knot theory. Otoh, the square root of negative one is crucial for EE/CE theory, but was considered heresy at the time it was thought of iirc. For the OP, if you're tenacious, you can get a degree in CS/CE/IT w/o being good at math, just put your all into passing those classes and code you happy little fingers off.