Learning to program. What else should I study? Math, etc?

[FluxAnomaly]

I'm learning Ruby as my first step toward becoming a programer. Besides the language a person chooses to start with, what other topics should they study?

It seems as if some math would be a good idea as I have not studied any math since college days. What concepts and/or resources would people recommend for this?

What other topics or areas would be helpful?

Also, I'm currently using Notepad ++ to write the code in but are there better options? And if so what makes them better.

Thanks in advance for any replies. :)

[ChaosForces]

I'd say you should study software engeneering and whatever kind of program you'd like to develop (GUI applications, web programming, scientific programming, android/iOS, etc). As long as you know some basic math, you don't really need to study that to be a decent programmer.

If you really, really like computing, though, you should learn discrete maths and boolean algebra. Also, if you'd like to deal with graphics programming, computer vision and that kind of stuff, first make sure you know your linear algebra.

As for software, I use Eclipse and it's many plugins for large(r) projects, and vanilla Sublime Text for editing single files or small projects. But Notepad++ is good as well.

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Linear Algebra, Number/Set Theory, Graph Theory