"Programmers", sure. But for a professional, degreed practitioners let's have some proper education please. What the heck is so hard about a bit of 17th C. mathematics anyway? Or are we talking about more advanced topics like "Analysis" (19th C.)? Either way, I don't want a dumbed down low wage profession. I'm looking for parity with at least doctors, accountants and high school science teachers..
By the way, I am wondering if you had some bad teachers who themselves failed to fully understand calculus. Good teachers make all the difference.
I totally agree. We are slowly deluding our profession by reducing it down to a few online courses. The vast majority of college is not about learning a specific topic. It's about being given a wide range of problems to solve in very different and complex topics that stretch your abilities.
I've been amazed at how many programmers I've interacted with in the past two decades who cannot operate outside the one, small subject they currently know. It's one thing to say you can't work on scientific modeling because you couldn't do Calc, but when I see front end developers who say "nope I can't do back end ever" I realize that they were never challenged and they will be the last person I want on my team. I want to have an employee who says "I don't know that topics but I'm going to learn it and solve this problem!" Dumbing down our profession doesn't help us.
By the way, I am wondering if you had some bad teachers who themselves failed to fully understand calculus. Good teachers make all the difference.