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Cool - which course is she taking? This is the Computational Investing course. Buried very deep in a forum is a post by the tutor saying that you should know pr

by aidos 13y ago

Cool - which course is she taking? This is the Computational Investing course. Buried very deep in a forum is a post by the tutor saying that you should know programming and how to use the command line - unfortunately it's too well hidden. The main struggle has actually been with people on OSX Lion getting the libraries installed. https://www.coursera.org/course/compinvesting1 https://www.coursera.org/course/compinvesting1

Rossimac 13y ago
On the introduction page of this course it states, "This course is intended for folks who have a strong programming background, but who are new to finance and investing." Hardly well-hidden.
- aidos 13y ago
  I stand corrected. Maybe there should be a test to weed people out early then. Dunno - there are a few too many people on the forums who don't know the 'cd' command. I was referring to this little quiz [1] which I thought should be posted directly in the description to scare people off. [1] http://wiki.quantsoftware.org/index.php?title=Compinvesti-prog-quiz http://wiki.quantsoftware.org/index.php?title=Compinvesti-pr...
  - Rossimac 13y ago
    Definitely a bit more computationally intensive than I would have imagined it to be. That's a bit of a challenge even for some with a CS degree! Cheers for pointing this course out, though. It's right up my street.
    - aidos 13y ago
      Great! Very interesting stuff (as it's all new to me).
marklit 13y ago
She's doing the 'Learn to Program: The Fundamentals' course run by U of T. I'm glad she did as it's forcing me to use Python 3 :)