C++ Online Certificate Students' intro thread

[Pei Gu]

Hello All,

Objective: Learn C++ for MFE program
Programming Experience: Python, MATLAB
Current Work: Financial Engineering student
Intended Pace: Finish the course at the end of Sep.

 

[Peter Wu]

Objective: Learn C++ for MFE program, and study the essentials of C++ programming.

Programming Experience: Python, Java, Matlab and R
Current Work: internship at a hedge fund
Intended Pace: Plan to complete the course within 8 weeks. Start at July 7th and may finish at the beginning of September. You are welcome to discuss course materials with me

 

[Rohan Rishi]

Hi there!

Objective: Learn C++ for MFE program

Programming Experience: Python, MATLAB, R

Current Work: MA Economics student

Intended Pace: Hopefully will finish the course by the end of Sept.

 

[Gboyyi]

Hello, everyone! Glad to join the big family of C++.

Objective: For MFE program
Programming Experience: Matlab, Python, Stata, VB
Current Work: Undergraduate majoring in Finance
Intended Pace: Plan to finish the course before September 10th.

 

[Yiming Li]

Hello! Glad to learn C++ further.
Objective: learning C++further, especially the OOP part
Programming Experience: C, MatLab, Stata, R
Current Work: Final Year of M.A. Economics
Intended Pace: Plan to finish the course before August 20th.

 

[Scott Slawson]

Hey everyone! I am excited to get started on this course

Objective: Admission into a MFE program in Fall 2019

Programming experience: Essentially none, except the basic HTML website creating code

Current work: Analyst/Trading Assistant at an equity derivatives hedge fund

I have a BBA in Finance and a BS in Economics and now work at a hedge fund. I want to get my MFE in Fall 2019. I am currently taking advanced math courses that were not required for my undergrad in order to apply for a MFE program.

 

[Jianwei Su]

Hello everyone! I am happy here to learn C++. I major was Math and I graduated from Northeastern University. I hope I can be a MFE student in the future.

 

[Yuexi Zheng]

Hello everyone! So excited to join the class and learn C++ together!

Objective: Admission to MFE programs and learn C++ essentials.
Programming experience: R.
Current work: Financial analyst contractor for a startup.
Intended pace of program: Hopefully by Sep.

 

[Wang Shuwen]

Hello everyone,

Objective: Learn C++ for graduate program
Programming Experience: Python, R
Current Work: Undergraduate
Intended Pace: just get started. I have an internship this summer, so it might be tough for me to catch up.

 

[Xuan Ji]

Objective: Learn C++ for MFE programs and for getting a quant job

Programming experience: C

Current work: Internship in ZhongTai Securities.

Intended pace:Depends on the complexity of the work but I will try to finish it as quickly as I can.

 

[Hongbo Wang]

Hello everyone! I hope it is not too late to introduce myself!

Objective: Learn C++ for admission into MFE programs

Programming experience: C, C++, MATLAB, R

Current work: unemployed, waiting for graduate school to star

Intended pace:Sep or Oct 2018

 

[Xingtong He]

Hi guys! Nice to meet you

 

[Brittany_W]

Hi everyone! So thrilled to join you guys and learn C++ together!!

Objective: To learn C++ for admission into MFE programs

Programming experience: Python

Current work: Undergraduate majoring in finance

Intended pace: Hopefully by Oct.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Hi guys! Nice to meet you

Hi!

 

[Rui Wang]

Hello everyone! So excited to join the class!

Objective: Admission to MFE programs
Programming experience: R, Python
Current work: Undergraduate, Economics major
Intended pace of program: Sep. or Oct. 2018

 

[Philip Li]

Hi there, this is a student from Peking University,
Objective: Learn C++ for MFE program, Learn how to model with C++, Meet people in pursuit of similar objectives
Programming exp: MATLAB, R
Intended Pace: Finish everything this summer

 

[Haorui Ding]

Hello everyone! I am so glad to study with you! Let's get to work harder together!
Objective: To learn C++ for admission to MFE programs as well as learn how to model.
Programming Experience: None, but I'm ready to learn more.
Current work: A junior student majoring in economics.
Intended Pace: As quickly as I can since I have some other plans to do.Hopefully by the end of October.

 

[Zhibai Luo]

Hi all, I am a maths student from Beijing.

Objective: Learn C++ for admission to MFE programs and further education or job

Programming Exp.: C, R in my coursework

Current Work: Coming final year statistics student.

Intended pace: Wish to complete the course as soon as possible because I will be busy doing my intern job next semester.

 

[Martyn]

Hi Everyone,

Objective: To increase C++ to use alongside existing python knowledge, for MFE admissions and future career use.

Programming experience: Python, SQL

Current work: Finance, no real professional coding usage

Intended pace: Hopefully fast pace, beginning of Oct if possible

 

[Jiawei]

Hello! Happy to meet all of you!

Objective: Learn C++ for MFE program

Programming Experience: C++,matlab

Current Work: Finance student

Intended Pace of program: not sure