Will we use calculus in Software Development Programs.?

i am very week at calculus. but i want to join software development company. so will we use calculus in programming using C %26amp; C ++. Plz answer my dear friends .

Will we use calculus in Software Development Programs.?
Unless you want to go into game development or join a company that develops engineering software, calculus won't be a very big part of your software development career.





Graphics, statistical software, engineering software...calc may be needed, otherwise don't worry about it. Even if you couldn't integrate, most libraries would do that for you.





Furthermore, I would say that Differential Equations would play more of a role than calc, in the places where I would see calc used. Trig would, of course, be even more useful than either calc of DE.
Reply:Software engineering or developing as I understand it does not necessarily mandate that you need to know calculus or for that matter any mathematical concepts other than basic mathematics.





Well, if the company which you end up with uses calculus in the soft-wares they develop, then yes you will have to use calculus. I have been in software development since 7 years and I didn't use calculus till now.
Reply:I agree with the person that said you will mostly use logic. If you are logical and organized and know how to find answers when you don't know off the top of your head (google!), you will probably do fine. I think the next most useful mathematics subjects for you might be linear algebra (I used some matrix algebra in work at a gaming company... also basic physics), combinatorics (part od discrete math... permutations and combinations and all that), and probability %26amp; statistics. If you got a little taste of those, it could be helpful. But the majority of software development doesn't use much of any of those in your day to day work.
Reply:Probably.


Calculus is pretty intuitive, and computers don't understand the concept of almost infinite very well. I think that we will need a good A.I. for a computer to understand calculus, and that goal is getting within reach.





In college I specialized in the construction industry. I had to learn basic physics, statics, dynamics, and fluid dynamics. I also had to learn calculus. My understanding of calculus made it easier to understand where the formulas came from and how they are related to each other. A good college will probably want you to learn calculus for the same reason. I haven't used calculus since school, and you might not use it after school either. But it is a higher form of math and it is used to explain some pretty complex things like Einstein's Theory of Relativity, or how much coke a cola bottle can hold, or the actual location of a body orbiting the sun, and it's speed at that moment in time (the speed is constantly changing due to gravity and orbital mechanics; which requires some pretty advanced math to determine.)
Reply:Depends on what type of programming you are doing. You may not need calculus as much as you need linear algebra or discrete math. But calculus play a major role in BIG-O notation for proving run times.
Reply:yes and no .. its like this .. it depends on what application you are programming ,,,, .. its not what language you are using ... ok ?





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Reply:You may not need calculus for developing every type of software, but you should learn as much as you can of it. You may want to change to a job where you need it later on.


If you don't do well with calculus, hire a tutor to help you learn it. A good tutor will be able to get you up to speed, if you're willing to put in the time.
Reply:Not in C and C++ it's not.
Reply:depends what company. If the company makes software for engineers or physicists, the answer is probably yes. Gaming development might also involve calculus for game physics. On the other hand if you make a marketing application or web development, the answer is probably no (like what i'm doing right now).





While in school, they will make you take calculus though.
Reply:don't worry about calculus, I don't like it either. But, it's important that you are quite good at logic. By logic, I mean exact logic, coz computers are very exact. You will have to use a lot of logic in solving programming problems

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