C++ Online Certificate Students' intro thread

[xjy]

This is Jessica. Nice to meet so many fellows~

Objective: improving program skills
Programming Experience: basic C&C++ courses
Current work: senior student at Wuhan University
Intended Pace: algorithm trading

 

[Hetty]

Objective: To learn C++ for admission to MFE programs.

Programming experience: R Language

Current work: Supply Chain Management in MSU | Graduate in 2017 May

Intended pace of program: Currently taking supply chain management courses (some of them may connect with the knowledge about this program).

 

[NI XIAOXI]

This is Xiaoxi.

Objective: Improving C++

Programming experience: C, C++, Fortran and VBA

Current work: Commodity Quant

Intended pace of program: 2 months

 

[Chen Yang]

Hello everyone. Really excited to become your classmate.
Objective: Learning C++ for admission to MFE program and employment
Programming Experience:C, a little C++, R and Matlab
Current Work: a student
Intended Pace: I'm having my winter holiday and I hope to complete the course during the break

 

[alicia.z]

Hello everyone, this is Alicia
Objective: Learning C++ for admission to MFE program
Programming Experience: Java, Python, R and Matlab
Current Work: Financial Analyst
Intended Pace: Not sure yet, have CFA in June

 

[Xinyue Zhang]

Hello everyone.
Objective: Learning C++ for admission to MFE program
Programming Experience: a little C and Matlab
Current Work: a senior
Intended Pace: Not sure yet, hope to finish it during winter holiday~

 

[Aziz L.]

Hello everyone, I'm Aziz,

Objective: To learn C++ for MFE and become a great quant.
Programming Experience: Matlab, C, Fortran
Current Work: Researcher in Physics of Fluids + Pre-MFE seminars
Intended Pace: Finish within two months.

 

[Fernando Lozano]

Hello everyone.

Objective: Learning C++ for admission to MFE program

Programming Experience: Matlab, R, Stata, little Python

Current Work: Deputy director of economic studies

Intended Pace: 2-3 months

 

[xuan wang]

Objective: Learn C++ for future employment(quant)
Programming Experience: R, Matlab, VBA
Current Work: Graduated in summer 2017 with a degree in Economics
Intended pace: Finish by May

 

[Junyao Xu]

Objective: Learn Basic Skills of Programming and use C++ to deal with some mathematical problems.
Programming Experience: None
Current Work: Year 2 Math Student in university
Intended Pace: Before 20 Feb 2017

 

[Jun Ouyang]

Objective: To learn C++ for admission to MFE programs.

Programming experience: C, MATLAB, Python, JAVA, VBA

Current work: Analyst

Intended pace of program: Planning to take a MFE program in coming Fall.

 

[YoungG]

Hi there, this is Young from Boston.

Objective: up and running C++ as well as other languages in my bracket
Programming Experience: R, Matlab, VBA
Current Work: student at Brandeis University
Intended Pace: quant shops, proprietary trading in particular.

 

[Yiren Chai]

Hey guys, this is Yiren from Connecticut.

Objective: To learn C++ for admission to MFE programs and for future job
Programming Experience: R, Python, Java, VBA
Current Work: College senior
Intended Pace: Finish by the end of Feb

 

[ouroboros]

Hi everybody, This is my first week in the course. Got a little delayed in starting.

Objective: Use this course as a refresher since the last time I have used C++ was 19 years ago.

Programming experience: Java, R, python, SQL, C++ in dos , matlab octave

Current work: Recently got layed off. I intend to use the certificate to show my competence in C++

Intended pace: As short as possible. or at least 1 level per week.

 

[Tianhao Chen]

Hi all,

Objective: Learning C++ for my MFE admission and future career.

Programming experience: a little C/C++.

Current work: full-time student at Peking University.

Intended pace: ASAP. Hopefully finish during my winter vacation.

 

[Grayson]

Hi everyone,

Objective: Learning C++ for my MFE admission and quant related work.

Programming experience: R, Matlab.

Current work: senior student
.
Intended pace: ASAP. 1 or 2 months

 

[Tetsu]

Hello everyone, I'm Tetsu,

Objective: To learn C++ for future career.
Programming Experience: Java, C, C++, R
Current Work: full time MFE student at a grad university in US, also working as a system engineer in Japanese company which is my sponsor.
Intended Pace: ASAP. about 2 months.

 

[Zhuping Xu]

Hi everyone,
Objective: To learn C++ for admission to MFE programs and for future career
Programming Experience: R, MATLAB
Current Work: senior student
Intended Pace: 1-2 months

 

[Francis Bruno]

Objective: To learn C++ for admission to MFE programs.

Programming experience: Verilog HDL, some python, C and I'm currently taking a C# game programming course @ coursera for fun.

Current work: I work for a trading company designing FPGA acceleration boards. Past jobs have included designing high speed networking hardware for companies including SpaceX

Intended pace of program: With work, C# and also taking an intro to Financial Engineering Course on Coursera It may very well take me 20 weeks, but I'm shooting for 16 weeks or less.

 

[Leonqw]

Hello,
Just signed up for the course today.

Objective: To learn C++ for admission to MFE program
Programming Experience: None
Current Work: Analyst
Intended Pace: Two months