Computer Science major but Weak in Math skills

[Joe33]

Originally Posted by ZeusAV

You need to take a Precalculus Algebra course and/or a Precalculus Trig course before taking Calculus 1 as both lay the groundwork for Calculus. You'll struggle mightily with Calculus if your algebra skills are not up to par.

My recommendation is to take the aforementioned courses and see if you can do well in them with maximum effort. If you do then continue on, if not then choose a different major.

Absolutely. Calculus needs the basics. Id suggest that you bone up on them. Buy some books and a homework generator such as " Infinite Algebra" and do problems until you get it right. I hire many engineers and need to get them up to speed. Its surprising just how many cant do math....
It will make your higher level course work much easier and fun.

[sj08054]

Calculus I
Calculus II
Discrete Structures I
Discrete Structures II
Probability

I have a CS background and been in the field for 20+ years and I must say I hardly use any of the above much. The above courses are "weed out" classes for CS. When you get to the Probability and Statistics, it actually gets easy.

[rarog]

Most of that is true, but discrete structures/math *is* quite useful. Now maybe you have a simple job where all the data structures you use are arrays or lists and you never need to mess around with graphs or trees or anything like that, but they truly are essential to the fundamentals of CS/programming.