I am a computer science major who is about to finish my first year of college. I’ve always been good at math, like A’s in high school, but calc… Not doing so hot. I know I’m going to retake it even if I do pass, I’m just worried that if I’m actually going to be using all of this math everyday as a computer scientist it might not be for me.
Don’t leave the major yet. There are lots of jobs that do not involve calculus. See how you like coding and databases. Also, you can become a patent examiner if you prefer to read and write with a CS degree. Thats a federal government job working for the Patent and Trademark Office in Virginia, as an example. You can go into marketing or sales of software, no math there. CS degrees are very versatile and many computer science positions today are focused on media studies too. So that set of people are more creative and perhaps less math type of thinking. You will learn calculus if you keep at it. If you had no exposure in high school, that is the problem. Most of your classmates took AP Calculus, I bet. So don’t worry, just take it again to learn it.