Do you think having a basic knowledge and understanding of algorithms can help you in web development. A friend of mine thinks algorithms will not make you a better developer.

Depends what you do. If you setup simple presentation websites like on wordpress they won't help.

But knowing your maths it most definetly will help you do awesome things from interactive animations on frontend to data mapping on the backend.

Yes,basic knowledge of algorithms is necessary. Once you start dealing with different forms of data ,you have to know how to handle them .

@StefanH Our C++ instructor loved giving us this one, and never touched strings with it.

@nofaceman there was a rant once. someone was 'whoring' for ++ with a reason to figure out a variable type based on how high the count can go.

then a senior came along and sugested to do thisbthebother way.

i think you're a perfect subject for the test ^^