Comment by rafram
9 hours ago
There's some discussion of math skills in the article, but the headline courses with huge jumps in failing grades (CS10 and 61A) are pretty math-light. The former is "CS for poets," the latter is the first CS class for majors - lots of work on scopes, recursion, basic data structures, and, at the end, a simple Scheme implementation.
Understanding math well might help a bit, but they're the least mathy classes in the core Berkeley CS curriculum IMO.
Can confirm- I took both of those classes and don't remember any math beyond big O, which only technically counts.
And even that is much heavier in 61B IIRC (speaking as someone who did as well!).