I feel rather insulted.

True, CS majors will probably never see a real Algebra course in their degree.  At my university the highest math required for CS was 300-level numerics course which covers sensitivity to rounding errors and such (most majors avoided taking it for as long as possible!).  There are also a couple of math courses in disguise, such as formal logic (taught by the Philosophy department) and many of the theoretical CS courses (notably language theory, which covers finite state machines and Turing machines).

Sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound like Linear Algebra is easier than high school.  What I was trying to say was that Linear Algebra is much easier than the rest of Algebra (which is a huge research area that no one could hope to grasp in its entirety).  A university-level algebra course typically starts with this kind of material in third or fourth year (it demands a significant comfort level with proofs):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_(mathematics)

Snakenobi, I don't mean to sound like a douche, BUT,

''i am a critical thinker,can think logically and algorithmically''

How do you figure? How could you possibly know that you are critical, logical and think algorithmically? Your 18, aren't good at Maths and evidently know nothing about programming at all. Did you take an IQ test or how do you get to that conclusion?

Websites and stuff isn't hard. It just takes some time. If your weak in math then I would stay away from anything Computer Science related.

It has to be said that I've met a few PHENOMENAL programmers that suck at math, but every single one of them started coding java or fortran at a veeeery young age.

I'm just being realistic here ok. Also, that other thread where everyone turned against everything you said made me slightly less empathetic towards your cause.

EDIT:

Disclaimer - I had a 7 hour class (!) today so I'm not in the best space... Wave-space? Function-Space? N-Space? AAAARRRGGGG. I'm gonna get high now.

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''many maths'' !?

''get around 30~35 maths to start.'' !?

I can't help pointing out these things. It's in my nature. Those statements sound like a 6 year old's inattentive utterings.

What....

I don't even...

My brain just crashed.

EDIT: By the way, I hope you aren't taking me seriously. That'd be sad :(

The courses I did were pretty tough! Final exam was like this: 1.5 hours. 3 proofs (out of 50!) and 10 multiple choice questions. It was a massacre. 

None, none at all.

It's the same if you'd ask "How much English is involved in, say, Astronomy", well, if you gonna publish you works in English then you better know it. So depending on the subject the math 'involement' may vary from none (ok, that's pratically impossible, so let's say elementary) to certain degree in math requirement.

What applications? What services? You'd better narrow it down.

UPD: Ok, I've read  rest of the thread and it seems judging by what you gonna do a high school eduaction program would be more than enough. And if I remember my school days correctly I've finished my math education at school with differential equations and complex numbers, so it should be more or less at the same level elsewhere.

I define productivity as the capacity to provide good bug free code ;)

So not line of code written/day but projects completed on time per specs and that actually work as defined in the specs...

if anything too many lines of code is often a sympton of bad coding ( but not always).

As for coming back to the topic of this thread, you will actually need some maths skills because even the simplest program has to deal with lists and not processing them in a n square way is highly recommanded.....

Thats not a bad analogy eh!

Ah, yeah. I define productivity as amount of time working divided by amount of time at work and performance being what you outlined.

OT: I should clarify. You don't exactly need the math itself, you need the way you think that you learn by  learning math. That can only happen with a shitton of math.