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A lot of programming is more linguistic than mathematical. If you stay away from hard core algorithms, graphics, scientific computing, AI, and similar things, you're likely to be able to get by with high school math and algebra.

One big area is UI/UX, which usually requires little math but does require design skills and good intuition about what makes a convenient intuitive user interface. Unless you are coding a rendering engine from scratch the math you'll hit in UI/UX coding will be arithmetic, basic bit manipulation (AND/OR/XOR), and maybe a little algebra.




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