C++ Online Certificate Students' intro thread

[Can Yang]

Hi, I am a student from China and currently as a visiting student in UK.

Objective: Learn C++ for admission to MFE programs
Programming Exp.: C
Current Work: Junior Year Econ & Finance Student
Intended pace: as fast as possible during Easter holiday, since Trinity Term is coming

 

[PhoebeCui]

Objective: Learn C++ for admission to grad programs
Programming Experience: JAVA and some Matlab
Current Work: Undergrad majoring in Mathematics
Intended Pace: ASAP

 

[QiranLi]

Objective: MFE program
Programming Experience: matlab, python, c#, vba, java, SQL
Current Work: undergraduate in finance
Intended Pace: finish before 15/5

 

[RachelDu]

hello! I am Rachel Du

 

[Zhuocheng Teng]

Objective: Learn relevant C++ for getting a quant job

Programming experience: Almost none, a little R SAS Python

Current work: none

Intended pace: not sure

 

[faye.w]

Hello, Everyone! My name is Scott Sidoli. Anyone else intending to enroll at CMU in the MSCF program? That's where I will find myself this fall.

Objective: Learn C++ for enrollment requirement at CMU
Programming Experience: Two Years. Self-study in Java, Haskell, and Python. Some academic experience with MATLAB, R, and Minitab.
Current Work: University Lecturer
Pace: ASAP

Hey Scott! This is Fei, we met on the campus visit the other day! Glad to find you here too!

Objective: Learn C++ for enrollment requirement at CMU
Programming Experience: Two-year R undergrad courses. Self-study Python on Coursera (three courses) last year.
Current Work: Macroeconomic research
Pace: ASAP

 

[ssidoli]

Hey Scott! This is Fei, we met on the campus visit the other day! Glad to find you here too!

Objective: Learn C++ for enrollment requirement at CMU
Programming Experience: Two-year R undergrad courses. Self-study Python on Coursera (three courses) last year.
Current Work: Macroeconomic research
Pace: ASAP

Fei! Excellent to hear from you! You've decided on CMU then?

 

[faye.w]

Fei! Excellent to hear from you! You've decided on CMU then?

Yap yap! Trying to crack some C++ here, LOL

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Yap yap! Trying to crack some C++ here, LOL

C++ is fun!

 

[faye.w]

C++ is fun!

So far so good! Thanks so much for your videos and notes! :D
However, I have to say that C++ is much less user-friendly than R or Python...it took me a while to just set up and get familiar with the environment...Luckily the syntaxes are similar! Hope I can get more fun along the way!

 

[Daniel Duffy]

So far so good! Thanks so much for your videos and notes! :D
However, I have to say that C++ is much less user-friendly than R or Python...it took me a while to just set up and get familiar with the environment...Luckily the syntaxes are similar! Hope I can get more fun along the way!

 

[Y.H.H.]

Objective: Learn C++ for MFE program, Learn how to model with C++, Meet people in pursuit of similar objectives

Programming Experience: C，Python
Current Work: Student in Peking University
Intended Pace: I hope I can finished it on July this year

 

[Muuuss]

Hi all，

Objective: Learn C++ for graduate school and future employment
Programming Experience: C, Python.
Current Work: Graduated in 2017 with a degree in Financial engineering, still waiting for the application results for 2019 fall.
Intended pace: Not sure, but as fast as I can !

 

[HaoHang Li]

Hello everyone,

Objective: prepare for upcoming graduate study in MFE program

Programming experience: C and a little python

Current work: prospective MFE graduate student

Intended pace of program: within two months

 

[Pan Lijun]

Hello everyone!
My name is Pan Lijun from Beijing and it's good to be here.
Objective: Learn this course to meet the prerequisite of MFE.
Programming Experience: Two-sem python and a little bit R.
Current Work: Senior student, major in math and double major in economics
Intended Pace: My plan is one week per level. So I will work hard for next 10 weeks!

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Hello

 

[Chang Ge]

Objective: Learn C++ for enrollment requirement at CMU
Programming Experience: Two years, coursework with JAVA and python (mostly for internship and machine learning )
Current Work: Data science internship at NYC
Pace: ASAP

 

[Nan Xiang]

Hello All,

Objective: Learn C++ for computational finance and macroeconomics
Programming Experience: Java, R
Current Work: Economics student
Intended Pace: Hope to complete by the end of June

 

[brianua]

Hello, my name is Brian and I am completing this course as a prerequisite to CMU MSCF.

Objective: Learn C++ for computational finance
Programming Experience: Java, SQL, HTML
Current Work: Actuary at SafeAuto
Intended Pace: Complete by June

 

[Zhichun ZHAO]

Objective: Learn relevant C++ for a MFE programe

Programming experience: python

Current work: an Econ student

Intended pace: Do my best to complete this!