C++ Programming for Financial Engineering

Great course! Definitely a ""must"" if you're starting C++ or building up your skill set. The teaching material, coding examples, online forum, and TA support are excellent. The assignments give a thorough exercise of the relevant concepts and require the necessary amount of work needed to actually learn. I especially enjoyed the final sections, Daniel Duffy’s examples and codebase give a good insight into how C++ is used in Quantitative Finance.

Excellent TA and support. Very responsive and knowledgeable.

Great. The course is useful for one to quickly master the basic concepts in C++, and it helps me to be more efficient in the job.

This is truly an outstanding course. Overall it is challenging and requires an extensive amount of self-study outside the regular course material (to finish the homework and quiz). However, it is very rewarding if one puts into his/her best efforts. In my opinion, the most credits goes to the TA, APalley. He responds to forum questions very fast and always gives helpful answers. But most importantly, he puts so much attention into every little detail in the homework submissions, and grades and comments them one by one. At first it may feel a little scary, but if you think about it, this is in fact essential and the most helpful to learn programming. I say this because I have greatly improved doing the homework one after one after studying his comments carefully. I believe APalley is the one that makes this course so unique and shines brighter than other similar ones.

Great course in teaching the basics of C++, good structure of course materials. Very responsive and helpful TA. Thank you APalley!!

As a complete starter, I acquired a lot from this program.

My TA and classmates helped a lot in my study process and I really enjoy this way of learning.

Really well round support from TA and forum. Quite a lot of enthusiastic students there. Really knowledgeable. Extremely quick response and can spot error timely.

The course is well structured and covers a lot of useful material. I found it really interesting as the exercises covered in depth basic topics of C++.

I highly recommend it to anyone who want to master the basics of C++.

Avi and Paul are excellent TAs, helping me in every difficult situation I faced.

The forum is a wealth of knowledge.

It is a challenging course but the Avi is very helpful throughout. The response is always fast and to the point. HW development is very helpful as well - I learnt way more through doing the hw and interpret the relationship between each tasks than watching the professor' videos.

That was hard. Really hard. But nothing worth doing is easy and in this case, the converse is true; this is an unbelievably worthwhile course because it is so difficult. I am now extremely confident in my ability to read and write in C++.

APalley was as good a TA as could possibly be hoped for. At all hours of the day, his response was only minutes away making working on the exercises possible at all times.

It was eye-opening and fascinating to explore how C++ programming can be used to solve real financial problems for the first time in my life. The course it very well-organized with abundant support from both TAs and classmates. This class is extremely helpful for those with limited programming experience.

I really appreciate all the work TAs and professors put in.

Very good teaching! Materials are very comprehensive and TA is responsible. I like this course very much! It can enhance my skills and abilities before taking the advanced c++ class.

This course is really helpful in my application process for graduate programs in Financial Engineering, and the methods employed in this course are really practical in my internship.

The TA of this course, Avi Palley, is really really kind. And his reply is timely and of great help in solving my questions on the learning materials.

The info on the forum is useful too as you can find almost all of your problems can be corresponded to an answer. Really amazing!

The course introduce lots of useful skills in C++. Although I've taken a C++ course when I was in college, I still learned a lot from this class. It is more detailed and include more flexibility about the code. TA is really kind, he answered all my related questions about the course, even how to install the software, and he's really strict about my homework. So I have to be very careful when doing homework. And it turns out help me learn more.

Well structured course material! I recommend this course for students as well as practitioners.
Excellent assistance from Avi, Pavlovs and professor Duffy :) thank you all.

It was a great course! I realize I've learned practical knowledge and technique. Q&As by past delegates were really valuable for me to address homework. I'm deciding to take also an advanced course.

The course worth every dollar you paid for it. From basic C syntax to application in computing finance, it helps you learn the essential of C++. Moreover, Prof. Duffy and TA Mr. Palley have their great devotion into the course. They will thoroughly answer any question you may have in your learning. And their speed of replying makes you wonder if they are actually android working 24/7.

This course is incredibly beneficial for anyone looking to improve their C++ skills. While computational finance applications are developed at the end of the course, a majority of the material is focused on getting the student up to speed on the basics of C++. I think the course offered a tremendous balance between general C++ background and its applications to computational finance. The TAs, as well as Dr. Duffy, were truly impressive in their speed and clarity of responses. I also appreciated the way the TAs would provide helpful hints without explicitly giving the answer; it is a much more effectively way to learn. Overall, I highly recommend this course to anyone interested in C++, and especially those looking to get into computational finance.

The course is designed properly and I really learned a lot from this course. TA helps me a lot and gave me so many suggestions. In all, the course is really great!

I really like the courses because the course is difficult enough and there're lots of exercises which could provide many opportunities to learn C++ well.

The overall course material is very helpful. TA and support are so great. TAs are very nice and available for most of time and reply to questions very quick. The designed Quiz also helpful for us to review the coursework. Homework is also well-designed.