C++ Programming for Financial Engineering

This course is excellent preparation for the graduate FE program!

i learn a lot of practical using of c++ in finance.

This course give me a overall view about how to program with C++ and there are a lot of practices helping us to improve our abilities to solve the problem in practice.

This course has been very helpful to me and TAs have been doing a good job. The quality of course notes could be further improved.

The course is great, and I can basically handle c++ programming after finishing the course, which is my purpose to take it. And TA's responses are always in time!!!

My goal: To get a certification which shows I've had a cpp course. Since CMU and Baruch MFE need a cpp course explicitly in the applicant requirement (I guess other programs have same requirement whether explicit or not), and I don't have time for one more cpp course in my university.
Meets my goals? Absolutely yes, great course.

Very well-planned.

This is a top notch course. I found it to be very informative and very well designed. My goal was to brush up on my basics programming skills to better prepare myself for a rigorous MFE program. I am very glad to say that I accomplished that goal, and more. I believe I am a much more complete and skilled programmer now, thanks to this course.
The course teaches the basics of programming and best practices of coding very well. The instructors put a special emphasis on programming best practices (like proper commenting, indentation, code block grouping and so on), which are important to learn and implement from the very start. Learning these best practices are crucial, as they will surely pay dividends to the programmer all throughout their career. The course material and assignments are also very well put together. One must code, and code a lot to get good at it. These materials push the student to do that. The assignments are challenging enough so that the student has to learn more, do their own research, try-fail and try again.
The course is also very well put together, in terms of the material covered. I have taken multiple programming courses before, but I found this one to have the best progression through topics, which is of utmost importance. I believe that a great programming course must have seamless transition between consecutive topics so that the student can get a better grasp of the concepts. Starting from a more advanced feature and moving on sporadically from that towards more primitive features is something that I saw various programming courses do. I find this to be bad practice. This course however starts from the basics, explains each feature/concept very well, points out its advantages & shortcomings; then moves on to a related concept and explains how it can be an alternative. This way, the student can better appreciate and comprehend the features of the programming language.
Lastly but most importantly, the instructor access and support is amazing and elevates the course to a new level. The TAs (Avi Palley, for me) are unbelievably fast and responsive, hence the student does not feel helpless at any point. The forums are also a great tool to learn and discuss material with peers. They simulate a real life classroom environment. Overall, the wonderful work done by the TAs coupled with the camaraderie of the students within the forums makes this course feel like an actual live course.

I have taken courses in R during undergrad and some Coursera courses in Python after work last year, so I initially thought I would be able to handle this course with ease for MFE prereq. However, I would now definitely re-consider myself to be ""pretty new to programming"" after taking this course. Don't take me wrong, it is a compliment. Unlike other more user-friendly languages, C++ indeed has a steeper learning curve but this course handles it well. The course overall is really comprehensive and builds up nicely. Each level starts from the basic, but never ends with just some simple exercises; students, especially for those like me who did not have a systematic CS training background, do have to put in a lot of effort (e.g. average 20+ hours per level, 60+ for L9 for me). Luckily, we have a great forum that we could check and ask questions, and more importantly, we have very dedicated TAs (esp. APalley) who always patiently answer our ""stupid"" questions almost in real time. Needless to say, it is a real pain juggling between work, CFA, and this course, but I indeed feel like gaining a lot of concrete knowledge and more confidence in programming. Maybe I will never be a pure programmer as I could still see myself having a huge distance to catch up with more proficient students, but this experience is really beneficial and worths a lot more than a few Cousera courses combined.

(Disclaimer: For your own good, please do NOT take this course if you are not required or really into C++; you can have a life out there, but you have to go to the moon here, LOL)

I think the course is of high quality but would be better if there is more knowledge in level 9, because lots of people like me don't learn about mathematics in finance a lot.

Cool! After learning it, I feel it easy to understand those things like inheritance.
Before taking the course, I am a C programmer with little knowledge about C++. Now I could say I am a C++ programmer, though still not professional.

The coverage, depth and coverage of this courses is pretty good.

Well organized course covers many aspects in cpp
The TA assistance is very helpful

Good quality. I have received what I wanted in the first place.

Originally I took the course just as a prerequisite for my MSCF program, but I was able to learn a lot throughout the course and felt that it was well worth taking. I think the structure of the program is nice, and the ordering of how things are introduced makes it easy to build on concepts. Additionally, I thought the forum structure was very useful in debugging or solving problems and the TAs were very kind in their presence and feedback. Though it was an online course, it felt like I was still taking a physical class.

The course gets me familiar with c++ , besides it also give me much experience and confidence on coding as a quant in the future

This is the correct course to take for anybody willing to learn data structure or C++ . TAs are very knowledgeable and helpful in a timely fashion throughout the course, which makes the course a very efficient one.

The course itself covers lots of material regarding the usage of C++11/14. Staff and TA helped me very much on completing the course.

I originally signed up for the course to aid in my MFE applications and to help get me up to speed as somebody who is not from a Computer Science / Mathematics background. I think the course did a good job getting me more familiar with the concept of object-oriented programming in general.

Definitely good C++ online course, the big picture of C++ clearly manifest. Definitely meet my original goal, strongly recommend!