C++ Online Certificate Students' intro thread

[Junying Shen]

Hello everyone, finally C++.

Objective: Admission to MFE programs for Fall 2013

Programming experience: C, matlab, Java

Current work: Senior major in Math and Finance.

Intended pace of program: March, 2012

 

[Bill Sun]

Hi every one, glad to be here!

Objective: Learn C++ for getting a quant job
Programming experience: VBA, Java, R
Current work: Sales support by a bank
Intended pace of program: I'll try my best

 

[akkp]

Hello all,

Objective: Learn C++ to better improve future job prospects
Programming Experience: VBA, MATLAB, R, SQL
Current work: Buy side front office quantitative analyst
Intended pace of program: Completed before 1st of March,2013

 

[Chris DeRuvo]

Hey All,

Objective: Learn C++ for MFE program
Programming Experience: None
Current Work: Sales/Private Trading
Intended Pace: I would like to complete each module about 2-3 days ahead of schedule as an initial goal.

 

[James Chun]

Objective: Learn C++ for MFE program, meet people in similar interests
Programming Experience: None
Current Work: Recent college grad
Intended Pace: As quick as possible!

 

[Yanzhu W]

Hi Everyone , glad to be here.

Objective: Admission for MFE program, Be a good quant in the near future with solid programming skill
Programming Experience: Python, Java, Perl
Current Work: Sales in the bank, Research engineer of modeling in speech recognition before
Intended Pace: will start from Jan 3rd, hopefully finish before April 1st.

 

[Woohyun Joo]

Hello everyone, nice to meet you all​

Objective: Learn C++ for MFE program.
Programming Experience: Very little Matlab
Current Work: Applying to grad schools
Intended Pace: Not sure, depending on how hard is it for me to understand this subject.​

 

[KevinM]

Nice to meet everyone
Objective: Improving programming skills, grad school for MFE or MFin in the near future
Programming experience: C++ and VBA
Current work: Fixed Income analyst, asset management/buy side
Intended pace of program: quick and efficient (little programming humor..)

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Welcome. Enjoy. Don't be afraid to ask lots of questions.

IMHO the following is the most important thread on _any_ forum _anywhere_ (well, almost). Please look at the demo as it will save you a lot of stress

https://www.quantnet.com/threads/co...why-do-i-get-linker-errors.11992/#post-102442

 

[Song Chen]

Hi Everyone.
Objective: Learn C++ to better improve future job prospects
Programming Experience: R, SAS, Fortran
Current work: Statistic Modeler
Intended pace of program: Completed before 1st of March,2013

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Welcome, also

 

[Yu Ding]

Hi, everyone, I'm a 1st-year master student of Operation Research from Texas.

Objective: Learn C++ for admission to MFE programs in 2014 spring or 2014 fall.

Programming Exp.: little C++， little C， little VBA， little C#， little SQL，

Current Work: 1st year master student of Operation Research.

Intended pace: Wish to complete the course early next year, around Feb.

 

[stephan acay]

Hello everyone
Objective: Learn C++ for MFE and/or future employment.
Programming experience: Turbo PASCAL ( learned 5-6 years ago. I forgot most than I remember. )
Current work: Mechanical Engineer
Intended pace of program: Targeting to complete the program as soon as I can.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Hello everyone, finally C++.

Objective: Admission to MFE programs for Fall 2013

Programming experience: C, matlab, Java

Current work: Senior major in Math and Finance.

Intended pace of program: March, 2012

Will you reach your target of March, 2012?

 

[Junying Shen]

Will you reach your target of March, 2012?

The notification indicates that I have 84 days left so I think I will finish before March.

 

[Junying Shen]

Will you reach your target of March, 2012?

get your point, 2013, careless typo.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

get your point, 2013, careless typo.

No problem Happy 2013.

 

[Eliezer Lopukhin]

Happy New Year everyone! I am very excited to start 2013 with this great learning experience.

Objective: Learn C++ for MFE applications, career development, and personal enjoyment

Programming Experience: R, VBA, a bit of C++

Current work: Final semester as undergraduate major in Statistics and Quantitative Modeling.

Intended Pace: As quickly as possible

 

[Marcos Paterson]

Happy new year everyone!
Objective: learn C++ and further develop programming skills.

Programming Experience: VBA

Current work: non-disc investment fund manager

Intended Pace: since I started ahead of time, I hope I finish it up before the end of March.
Good luck to me!!

 

[AlbertoSebastian]

Hello everyone...
Objective: get a formal basis in my C++ so I can effectively use it...

Programming Experience: VBA,Matlab,VB.net,C#,little C++

Current work: VP (Front Office Quant) at a Bank...but using little C++ (more into C#)

Intended Pace: will depend on how demanding the Desk is in 2013