I’m in the same boat. I’ve been programming since I was very young, but never did well in math classes.
In programming you can always dig into the “how” something works, but math is descriptive as opposed to programming being prescriptive.
I got it in my head that I never understood math bc I didn’t get how it worked and that destroyed my academic career in math for my whole life.
It wasn’t until I read the first chapter of “Mathematics for Programmers” that it finally clicked for me. The last paragraph had a quote that was like “if this didn’t quite make sense to you, maybe you spent too much time learning how to think like a computer” and it shattered my whole worldview.
In programming you can always dig into the “how” something works, but math is descriptive as opposed to programming being prescriptive.
I got it in my head that I never understood math bc I didn’t get how it worked and that destroyed my academic career in math for my whole life.
It wasn’t until I read the first chapter of “Mathematics for Programmers” that it finally clicked for me. The last paragraph had a quote that was like “if this didn’t quite make sense to you, maybe you spent too much time learning how to think like a computer” and it shattered my whole worldview.