Hello guys I am going to study in Poland on IT. I really want to be nice coder Now I am working as front-end developer(creating web-sites) and like it very much, but when I was in school I didn't study at all. Always was playing computer and faking as ill.
Now I have personal teacher of mathematic and I study hard atm, but really afraid of mathematic, physic and chemistry. What do You think? May You give me advice? Thank you
They probably wouldn't hire a Ukrainian over a newly arrived, non-Polish speaking migrant though, that's part of the difficulty. It's not too dissimilar from right here in the States!
Polish unis do sometimes include a bit of basic physics in computer science degrees but you don't need any knowledge of physics or chemistry to be a progammer. It helps to be good at maths but it's not essential. As long as you can manage to scrape a pass in the maths side of your degree you'll be fine. The most important thing is to master a programming language.
Nikulio, it's true, in Lublin, a Ukrainian can complete university w/o knowing Polish or anything at all. As long as you pay your tuition, they will pass you. They even don't care if you cheat or pay someone else to take your tests and do your coursework. How are you financing your studies ?
warsaw_wasraw, it is 1500 per year. Finance isn't big problem. Few agencies told me, that studying is really hard and lot of students come back after first year and it makes me feel bad.
am I the only person who thinks that?: why the heck did you chose to study IT when your maths isn't any good? if you are happy writing websites (in any framework) than just write them, read a lot about technologies you use (php? python? JS? *sql?), improve your skills. having a certificate from random uni in Poland will not help you- in most cases they aren't worth the paper they are printed on.
In the USA, math is quite important in the first few semesters of Computer Science. In OOP (object oriented programming) you need at-least Calculus 1 logic to structure objects and methods. Do some research and find out what language your specific school is heavy on I.E. java or C++ and start studying NOW. There is endless amount of content available online
I took A-LOT of math [Also College Algebra, Trigonometry & Pre-Cal] - Calc 1 - Calc 2 - Statistics - Discrete - Linear Algebra
In the USA many schools split CS into another branch called Information Systems: less math/physics and more accounting/economics. But I think you are selling yourself short by going down this path
Nlkulio, for most ordinary programming, for example developing business applications you don't need to have advanced mathematical knowledge. In that kind of programming you just have to apply existing forumlas to solve problems. However, when you get into very high level programming you need to be able to write your own algorithms. However you may never work in such a field. There really isn't that much advanced maths in day to day programmers for most software engineers but you do need to be a logical thinker and good at problem solving. Here's a link to a programmer's forum where real software engineers answer questions and this one is about the importance or otherwise of maths in programming. Here's one encouraging answer:
'To be honest, I was a horrible math student in school. Algebra was completely beyond me at the time, and I don't think I ever got higher than a D in it.
However, a few years later, after having worked as a professional software developer, I went back to college and took a course in algebra. To my amazement, it was the easiest class I had, and I got an A in it.
Truth was, programming taught me algebra, because virtually everything is just an algebraic expression.'
Sometimes what happens with maths is that it's not very well taught in schools and if it doesn't come naturally to you, you just give up and build up a mental block against it as a subject. When you come back to it from a different perspective you can find that you're more capable than you thought.
