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If I'm learning calculus for work, and my work is computer programming, then when I need to do calculus I have a computer handy. Some teachers say that you should learn how to do math by hand in case you don't have a calculator, but if I don't have a computer with me when I'm trying to computer program then I have bigger problems than not being able to solve some calculus, right?
@golemwire Quit thinking and study! :)
@golemwire I was in the humanities not STEM and had no need for calculus. But maybe there's an analogy to my having had to study various foreign languages, some of them "dead.
So why did I have to study them? (I mean, most texts normal people use have already been translated, right?)
Mostly because it gave me an opening into the heads of people who lived a long time ago in a culture far away. Could calculus give you a way to envision what the computer does with the programming you create? Or some better feel for data structures or the logical flow of your work? Help train your thinking patterns?