C++ Online Certificate Students' intro thread

Hi everyone! My name is Adam Sy, and I am really happy to be in the program with everyone :)

Objective: My initial goal was to learn Python for economic research, but in the FAQ of that course, Andy gave the advice to first learn a hard programming language to gain proper programming concepts and habits, and so I am taking his advice and enrolling in this course first :)

Programming experience: Mainly Stata (although I don't think this is an actual programming language), took introductory courses on Python, Matlab and R

Current work: Unemployed (just finished school)

Intended pace of program: I intend to work on this course full-time, so I hope to finish in 2-2.5 months.
 
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Hi All,
I'm a senior student who will continue my study at a school in New York this August.

Objective: Learning C++ for quant development and explore the field of quant
Programming Experience: Python, R, MATLAB, JAVA, and a little C++
Current Work: Math major + Stat minor
Intended Pace: Finish before March 2022.
 
macro_investor said:
Haha it was used by the company I worked for during my first job so I had to learn some aspects of it for basic data graphing purposes and only later realized no one really uses this.
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APL is is very powerful and influential language. The last time I used it was when I was teaching numerical methods to senior undetgrads at Maynooth University in 1980. It's a pity that C++ does not support its n-d data structures.
APL kind of reminds me of Python Pandas.

The APL keyboard was something they would use on Starship Enterprise. AFAIR there was a button to invert a matrix!


Anyways, good luck on the course!
 
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Hello,

my name is Lee-David. I am a first-semester student going for a double degree in BA Economics / B. Sc. Mathematics. I am from Germany and currently studying in Switzerland. I already got some work experience in banking and it's my goal to pursue a career in trading. Because of my passion for derivatives, C++ is a great opportunity for me to expand my knowledge working with financial products.

Have fun!
 
Sudhansh said:
Hello everyone,
Objective: To learn C++ for a career in derivatives trading and to get admission in a top MFE program.

Programming experience: Python

Current work: Market Risk Quant

The intended pace of the program: I will be studying stochastic calculus along with this program for my next project on derivative pricing, so I intend to go as slow and in-depth as possible, ending the course by the beginning of March 2022.
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Update: I finished the program yesterday, a month earlier than I had expected, with Distinction :).
Now I prefer coding in C++ over Python, LOL.
 
Hi, everyone!
Objective: For future career in quantitative finance
Programming Experience: Python, C (have learned long before but have almost forgotten)
Current Work: internship in a hedge fund; incoming student in a statistics MS program or MFE program (still waiting for decision)
Intended Pace: Hopefully before the end of June
 

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