Pre Read suggested for an Incoming Financial Engineer Candidate

[slaye]

I am an incoming FE candidate at one of the leading schools in the US. I have done my undergrad in Computer Science Engineering and have a work ex of 2 years. At the moment I feel I am not very well prepared to take the program and hence plan on deferring for the next 6 months and make sure I have gained a decent knowledge in Mathematics and programming. Will it be a wise choice to make?

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Can you program in C/C++/Python?
And I reckon some more training in maths is probably needed, depending on what "Mathematics" you did..

 

[slaye]

I have some experience in Python. Talking about the math side of the thing, I can say I have basic level understanding. Do you think it is justified to take this 6 month break and prepare for it?

 

[Andy Nguyen]

Time to read up Master reading list for Quants, MFE (Financial Engineering) students

 

[Daniel Duffy]

I have some experience in Python. Talking about the math side of the thing, I can say I have basic level understanding. Do you think it is justified to take this 6 month break and prepare for it?

what's your current maths level?

 

[slaye]

what's your current maths level?

On a scale of 1to 10, I would say 3.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Maybe a maths course at a community college to get to a 6-7 before the next step?

You can compare contents with my online maths courses here

Online Courses :: Datasim

www.datasim.nl

QN C++ course does no harm at all.

 

[bigbadwolf]

On a scale of 1to 10, I would say 3.

This doesn't mean anything to anyone. If you want specific and detailed responses give a detailed account of what topics you know and your level of command of each topic, plus the books you use.