C++ Online Certificate Students' intro thread

[watashideker]

Hello All,

Objective: Learn C++ to enhance my programming skills for applications in finance.
Programming Experience: Basic programming exposure, looking forward to improving through this course.
Current Work: Master’s student, pursuing Financial Analytics and Technology.
Intended Pace: Balancing a full-time course load, I aim to complete this program by the end of the winter break, around early February 2024.

Looking forward to learning from the course and engaging with this amazing community!

 

[Yanhao]

Hello Everyone, I am a Math, Econ & data science student at UCSD. I have some experience using Python for quant strategy development and want to take advantage of the opportunity to dive deeper into C++ language.

 

[dleather]

Objective: Learn C++ , improve industry opportunities. Maybe MFE in future.

Programming experience: Julia, MATLAB, R, Python, Stata.

Current work: Assistant Finance Professor.

Intended pace of program: I plan to do an accelerated study (1-2 months).

 

[QwarBorpo]

Hello! My name is Matthew. I'm an economics/math student from Los Angeles.

Objective: Learn C++ for MFE programs (Hopefully Baruch!) and familiarize myself with computational finance.

Programming Experience: R, Python, very basic C++

Current Work: Student

Intended Pace: I plan to complete the first two levels slowly because I'm still working on applications. However, I plan on going much faster after that. I hope to be done in March!

 

[balramo]

Hi all very happy to be here.
Objective: I plan to apply for MFE programs
Programming Experience: a little bit of Python
Current Work: MBA Student
Intended pace: Mar 2025

 

[Jimmy Cui]

Hi Everyone:

I'm a Math & Econ student from Atlanta, Georgia. I'm currently applying for multiple MFE programs in the U.S.

Objective: Get familiar with C++ programming for financial applications.
Programming Experience: Java, Python, R, and MATLAB.
Intended Pace: I plan to follow the recommended study time for each level and complete the exam by the end of April.

 

[Dbstone]

Hi all,

I am a former finance major who worked at a shop focused on preferred equity and junior sub debt until February of last year. I am taking this C++ class and the other pre-MFE courses (I completed AC-FE already; NLA and probability start next month).

I am taking these courses to improve my candidacy for MFE programs.

I intend to get as much done as possible in January before the other courses occupy my attention.

 

[tnguyen]

Hi everyone, I majored in finance during my undergraduate studies and am currently working as a Data Analyst in NYC. I’m interested in learning more about coding applications in finance and exploring whether an MFE program or a career in Financial Engineering is the right fit for my future. I took an Introduction to C++ course in college, which will hopefully give me a head start in this course. I plan to follow the recommended study schedule but will try to accelerate my progress if possible.

 

[Elias R.]

Hi All - great to see so many quant finance enthusiasts out there

I have graduated last year from LSE with a bachelor in Maths with Econ. I am currently leaving the risk management team of a multi-strat hedge fund to apply for front office jobs, ideally quant trading, as like searching for exploitable patterns in the data to build optimal strategies.

Objective : Get C++ skills applied trading OR apply for the MFE.
Programming experience: Statistics/ML in R and Python, Modelling and random simulation in Python, Data science in Python, Backtesting in VBA, Optimisation in AMPL, Options pricing (BS/Binary tree/Heston model) in Python.
Intended pace: 3-4h per day

Looking forward to meeting the education team!