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When I did my CS degree in New Zealand there were just two mandatory maths papers - statistics and discrete mathematics. Would be wrong to say I didn't get anything from them - but I'm not fumbling around truth tables or poisson distributions all that often either. Everything else was pretty standard: intro to programming, DSA, low level programming, compilers and networks. What I do find kind of mind blowing is comparing my lectures with the ones from MIT and CM (on YouTube) where they can't go more than a few seconds without jumping into math. Ultimately I'm left unconvinced I was deprived of anything important as a typical software engineer.


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