so it shouldn't be beyond reach of a motivated developer able to set aside some time to learn. MOOCs and organizing study groups with friends/co-workers can help a lot here as well.
I'm in the middle of that process right now. I only took Calc I in college and that was 20 years ago, so I have decided to work my way through a Calc sequence, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, and Probability and Statistics through a combination of MOOCs, "X For Dummies" books, Youtube videos (hello, Gilbert Strang!), Schaum's Outlines books, Khan Academy, a mammoth stack of college maths texts that I've picked up at used book stores, and questions on stats.stackexchange.com, math.stackexchange.com, learnmath.reddit.com, etc.
I'm doing the Ohio State MOOC on Calc I now on Coursera, and accompanying that with the Gilbert Strang "Highlights of Calculus" video series[1]. So far so good. I definitely think this stuff is learnable if one is willing to put in the time and work, even without going back to taking "on campus" classes at a university.
I'm in the middle of that process right now. I only took Calc I in college and that was 20 years ago, so I have decided to work my way through a Calc sequence, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, and Probability and Statistics through a combination of MOOCs, "X For Dummies" books, Youtube videos (hello, Gilbert Strang!), Schaum's Outlines books, Khan Academy, a mammoth stack of college maths texts that I've picked up at used book stores, and questions on stats.stackexchange.com, math.stackexchange.com, learnmath.reddit.com, etc.
I'm doing the Ohio State MOOC on Calc I now on Coursera, and accompanying that with the Gilbert Strang "Highlights of Calculus" video series[1]. So far so good. I definitely think this stuff is learnable if one is willing to put in the time and work, even without going back to taking "on campus" classes at a university.
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFW_V3qDH5jRyfpD9uiq6...