I didn't downvote your comment but your statement is a very misleading idea. Yes, the study of Computer Science is a discipline of mathematics but common programming done by most devs is not applied mathematics.
Sure, if we really wanted to, we could say baseball is "applied calculus" because when an outfielder chases after a fly ball to intercept it, he's tracking an inverted parabola... and cooking is "applied physics" because of thermodynamics ... but insisting on that is just being pedantic and academic. People do not need calculus and physics classroom training to play baseball and cook food.
> Sure, if we really wanted to, we could say baseball is "applied calculus" because when an outfielder chases after a fly ball to intercept it, he's tracking an inverted parabola... and cooking is "applied physics" because of thermodynamics ... but insisting on that is just being pedantic and academic. People do not need calculus and physics classroom training to play baseball and cook food.
No, we can't, because baseball and cooking aren't formal symbol manipulation, but both math and programming are. That is why all programming is applied mathematics, because it's all manipulating symbols in compliance with a set of formal rules.
Observably, many programmers manage to achieve considerable success without much or any mathematical sophistication. This is because the market places relatively little value on correctness, which is what math helps with, and far greater value on pleasantness, which doesn't require mathematical sophistication at all.
I didn't downvote your comment but your statement is a very misleading idea. Yes, the study of Computer Science is a discipline of mathematics but common programming done by most devs is not applied mathematics.
Sure, if we really wanted to, we could say baseball is "applied calculus" because when an outfielder chases after a fly ball to intercept it, he's tracking an inverted parabola... and cooking is "applied physics" because of thermodynamics ... but insisting on that is just being pedantic and academic. People do not need calculus and physics classroom training to play baseball and cook food.