There have been a lot of questions on
whether the mathematics foundation is essential for starting a career as a coder
or software developer. There has been a lot of myth at the beginning of
learning a programming language – Let us focus on the programming language
itself, its syntax, semantics, the logic etc will become automatically come and
there is no need for Maths. You can still be a coder if you absolutely dislike
math, but slowly realization will dawn upon you that math is indispensable in
order to become a great coder. In my 20 years of blended experience in both academia and industries, I believe the foundation has been always a necessity for a great career, 20 years back or today also. IT industries who looking out of
Analytics Skill actually boils down to your logic and reasoning,
thinking that requires your mathematics
knowledge.
We're basically working
with numbers to effectively compute data. In the lower levels, even our characters are
turned into numbers. We also provide specialized and discrete mathematics courses to assist us in better
understanding the core concepts of each discipline.
If that doesn't persuade us, I'll list most of the
fundamental courses taught in a standard college Computer Science course, as
well as some of the mathematical ideas that are required and essentially taught
to thrive in those courses.
·
Introduction to
Computer Science and Programming— basic mathematics/arithmetic – Prime Number, Perfect number, Armstrong
number, the factorial of a number, GCD using Euclidean method, and many more
·
Computer Graphics,
geometry and coordinate geometry would prove to be a pre-requisite.
·
Computer
Network/Cryptography requires
linear algebra, probability, and statistics, differential equations, numerical
analysis. Pseudo-random numbers, probability, calculus has great requirements
in Cryptography.
Being in the discipline of Computer Science, we
must deal with a lot of mathematics. While it does not cover the full course,
it is useful to know that when working with something that is basically based
on 0s and 1s, a basic understanding of Math is required.
In GIFT, we have always focused
on building up the mathematical foundation of the students before joining
the regular Engineering or MCA Courses. Bridge course is conducted where the
exposure to the basics mathematics is provided to the students before starting
their Engineering 1st semester course. The students undergo lots of
practice exercises and one-to-one counseling in order to make them understand
the fundamentals of Mathematics. Furthermore, communication skill is also given
more importance. Students are allowed to present their assignments in
mathematics so they have a clear understanding and ability to articulate their
understanding to others. This creates an environment beforehand for the
students to make themselves understand the importance of learning the concepts
and delivering it in the right way. This has been a success story of GIFT for the last couple of years. Even in the COVID-19 Global Pandemic, GIFT has taken this
as a challenge and has successfully conducted the Bridge courses online
mode. Apart from the mathematics, we provide an exposure to the students on why
engineering, the job perspective, and the current trends in both IT and Non
IT industries. We create an ecosystem of learning so that it inculcates further passion for deep diving on their career outlook. GIFT believes in making
the difference from day Zero itself.
Courtesy: Jharna Dohotia’s article
“why-do-we-need-math-to-be-a-developer”