Calculus I/II - Advice?

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My advice will be to Practice. Practice. Practice. Nothing else will help you learn math. Math is a skill you must practice to learn.

People like Khan academy, I however prefer professor Leonard from youtube. The guy is awesome.

Before you do anything with Professor Leonard in Calc check out 'Highlights of Calculus' by Gilbert Strang on youtube as well.

If you Algrbra is rusty, check out "MyWhyU" on youtube.

Good 'coder' funny. Please don't use that word lol. 'Coding' has nothing to do with math. Its just a tool to express your ideas.

However, if you learn math you can become an excellent programmer. Forget the web monkeying crap I mean AI, Robotics, Embedded Systems and all the fun stuff.

If suggest you take Linear Algebra as well, its indispensible Gilbert Strang has a good book on the subject along with the book 'The No BS guide to linear algebra'.

Electronics Engineering? Or Electronics Engineering Technology? They're both very different things.

I slightly disagree with the coding part. I hold my own with my CompSci teammates. Reading a coffee table book called "A tour of the Calculus" that gave a birds  view, and I could imagine all of the concepts as software development concepts. Data structures and Cryptography also help. Obviously it barely explain Calculus but it all made sense if I related it that way. To me it's just hard to see what a formula/equation is all saying then it is understanding what is going on conceptually. Building algorithms in Python or Java or C negates the "mess" of the math.

It's Electronics Engineering Technology, ABET certified program, but not the full Electrical\Electronics engineering. I'm coming from a 8 years IT Systems+DevOps. EMC used to sell 2ExB of storage to Apple iCloud and I was Ops. Now I work with mining Automation Control Systems/SCADA/PLCs but more from the Server/network infrastructure side. Our role would ideally be 50-50 IT/EET and having an ABET-EET that can work with onsite electricians and communicate directly with EE & IT Sys folks would be awesome. I don't think I'll be using tons and tons of higher math like an EE would as I'm mostly in the trenches.

Honestly I'm betting I'll need to start at College or Intermediate algebra. I've bookmarked most of what you've given me. Any good books/workbooks for Calc you'd recommend? I think I can handle the algebra for the AS Electronics/Electrics. I don't want to enroll in an EET program until I know I can handle the math. I'd also like to know a time frame to expect to finish Calc I/II after I'm at a pre-Calc level, but that's definitely specific to me and not something that is really advisable I imagine.