C++ Programming for Financial Engineering

The course is really good. I do not have much programming background, but I can still follow the course. The course content is also very good, I benefit a lot from this course. I sincerely want to thank all TAs, since they are very helpful. They always answer my questions quickly and clearly.

It's really a great course that I've learned a lot from. Professor Duffy's slides and lectures are clear and his words in the forum is illuminating. My TA is always there for help, kind and patient. I sometimes got response within a few minutes. It is a valuable learning experience. Thanks a lot.

The TA has excellent availability on the forum and in private msg to help with suggestions on hw. The TA responds quickly.

well-designed course treating a wide range of topics in C++. Always quick responses from the TA

I have learned a lot.

This course was good to learn the basic of C++.

It was tough to complete each level's HW but they definitely helped me understand C++ well.
TA are so good,. They responded my question promptly their advice was so useful.

I really must say that I benefited from the course, being someone new to programming. I was successfully able to make the transition to the intermediate level. The course design was great with constant support from every one doing the course. I would like to make a special mention to my TA Avi Palley who has been extremely helpful throughout my journey. I would recommend this course to anyone who is looking to learn programming to suit their requirement in the field of quantitative finance.

Good comprehensive course for prospective financial engineering students. I didn't have much prior programming experience, so the course felt challenging. The forums were a very good resources -- almost all the problems that I encountered were previously discussed.

Course curriculum was well designed, but I would have liked more of an emphasis on the application of programming in finance. Another module at the end expanding on the concepts discussed in module 9 would have been great.

I thought Avi was a very good TA. His responses were were prompt and his feedback was clear. I appreciated his help throughout the course.

Thanks Avi, Professor Duffy, and the rest of the Quantnet team!

The course design is very good. It first lays a solid foundation for us students by providing the background of C language, and then turns to OOP and generic programming. The TA is very nice and patient and offers me great help. Besides, I learn a lot from discussions in the forum.

I am really happy with this course. TA responds really quick and professor provides high quality and clear lecture. Forums are really helpful.

APalley is my TA and he is really really responsible and nice. I have some self-learning fundamentals in programming, but this course is still very helpful structuring my knowledge. Hope people like it.

The course was a fantastic introduction to the fundamentals of programming in C++. Learning topics ranging from inheritance and polymorphism to generic programming to using STL and Boost libraries provided a solid foundation off of which I'm sure I can build in the future.

This course took me from having zero C++ experience to being fairly proficient in just a matter of weeks. Even before the course was over, the concepts I was learning helped improve the code I had been writing in Python for my job. Learning C++ is a daunting task for someone without a formal background in CompSci and after this I feel very confident in the fundamentals of the language and am looking forward to continuing my self education in the language.

This is the first course I have taken about object oriented programming. It's well organized and very beneficial to my further studies in the MFE program. Unlike the other C++ courses that focus mainly on the syntax part, this course gives me a lot of chances to make use of the language in option pricing and simulations! The TA, Avi is also willing to help whenever I reach out to him. Anyways, it's a great experience.

I've learned a lot from this course. The first eight levels help me to build a knowledge framework of C++, and from the last level I learned how to apply C++ in financial engineering. I love the lectures and homework exercises. TA is also very nice and helpful, and he responds to my questions very soon.

The structure of the course is very good, starting from C and then gradually the specialties in C++, and useful libraries in C++.

The homework in Level 8 and Level 9, especially Level 9, is very practical and comprehensive.

The course is well organized and it is a great starting point for anyone with little C++ experience and background. The TAs are really helpful and responsive, and they explain my questions clearly and thoroughly. Overall, it has been a great experience!

Thank you for making my first C++ class a great experience. It has been an unbelievably rapid learning curve for me since the start of the course. TAs are extremely responsive to questions and stimulate actual thinking rather than provide a plain answer. Great class.

Lectures are very compact for beginners at the start. It would be great if we are provided additional / optional reading materials (just as section 2.0). I also had some problems installing VS and Boost but professor and TAs have been very helpful. It would be great if the threads with installation instructions could be fixed to the top as well... I only hoped I could have seen them earlier! but otherwise everyone has been extremely helpful and responsive even over weekends/ public holidays. Homework feedbacks are clear and highlight important areas to note before proceeding to the next level. Thanks again for everyone's time and effort (and patience to my sometimes stupid questions:))

Really benefit a lot from this course from almost knowing nothing about C++ to be able to read code, to code myself, and to talk about the concepts like generic programming, objective, memory management etc. My TA is Avi who provide great help in the learning process. His posts in the forum along with all the others' make the course really much easier to learn. Also, Avi always provide timely response with regard to answer questions and providing homework feedback. A big THX to Avi!

My TA Avi Palley responds to my inquiries really timely and I feel the professor organizes the course in really good order. Good quizzes also.

Materials are relevant. TAs are able to reply each questions posted on forum promptly. However, the video lecture is much more useless compared to the materials. The instructor is unclear and soporific. The quiz also has a lot of room for improvement. There is no explanation for each questions after completion of the quiz.