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May 16th, 2022 - Information Session - Intuition-Based Options Primer for Financial Engineering Certificate

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IlyaKEightSix" data-source="post: 13855" data-attributes="member: 1135">From the sounds of it, it seems all of the quants here learned C++ on their own.  Download bloodshed C++ and then go to <a href="http://www.cprogramming.com" target="_blank">www.cprogramming.com</a> is what I'm doing, since I'd get destroyed by the C++ course taught in my university (it literally weeds out would-be comp sci majors). As for a math major, I would advise against it.  I know that at Lehigh, if you major in finance, you can take a financial mathematics track, which has you taking basic prob n stat, theory of ODEs, and I believe theory of probability (I had all three--the last one WAS PAINFUL...C+ for first time with proofs), and then there's another track which had you taking a pair of Operations Research courses (and the high level ones) and one was an MFE course (I also took both...the deterministic one was with my optimization professor who is an FE researcher, and the MFE course everyone got like 50% at best...I got a 44 and it was a B =P...it was the most fun I've ever had :D) I think if you just use your electives to seek out the quantitative courses, you'll be in good shape. Heck, I know I can get into my school's MFE program--but it'd cost me another year and $50,000 in debt! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite16" alt=":cry:" title="Crying    :cry:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cry:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite16" alt=":cry:" title="Crying    :cry:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":cry:" /></blockquote>

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