I was following along until the casting spells stuff. I’m sure it can be like that too some, it’s just not my experience.
Learning to code made it so I didn’t have to know as much math in my opinion. At least not how to solve complex equations. That’s what computers do for me!
Coding does open your mind to new concepts though. Like the first time wrapping your head around nested loops, or following complex logic to find an elusive bug, which can be very frustrating, but also very satisfying when you find it.
The spell casting isn’t something I’ve felt myself, but I’ve absolutely heard it from other people watching me type apparent line noise into a weird dark window with nothing but text in an alien language in it.
Non-technical people in general understand neither bash nor vim, and they use their computers within the fixed constraints of the software they buy, unable to go beyond those constraints by themselves. When we make the computer do something completely new, they’re like: how are you changing the reality in front of our eyes with nothing but words?!
On the other hand, I can’t build a house, but when I watch others build one, it never looks incomprehensible to me. So yeah I think spell casting is actually not that bad in terms of comparisons.
Learning to code made it so I didn’t have to know as much math in my opinion.
I must be coding very different things than you are. Lol.
I’m currently making a domain-specific language for doing 3d modeling, and wow have I learned a lot of linear algebra. And I can sense that even so, I’ve barely scratched the surface.
Yeah, for that you would have to. I guess I did do math, but not really complex like you are describing. Mostly financial and statistics/graphing. Nothing involving spatial or predictive math. Hardly above high school math for the most part. I did look into inverse kinematics for giggles a bit, but ultimately noped out
Math is like any of the other science discipline I feel. The more you know, the more you are aware of what you don’t know.
Hank Green’s video “No Effort is Wasted” applies.
That said, I currently have no motivation for completely unrelated (system) reasons and I actually finished the last thing I started.
