Abandoning PHP for Python

Re:Abandoning PHP for Python by aidos on Monday September 16, 2013 @06:38AM (#6392525)

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

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Re:Abandoning PHP for Python by Rossimac on Monday September 16, 2013 @06:55AM (#6392582)

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.

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Re:Abandoning PHP for Python by aidos on Monday September 16, 2013 @07:57AM (#6392790)

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-pr...

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Re:Abandoning PHP for Python by Rossimac on Monday September 16, 2013 @12:15PM (#6393981)

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.

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Re:Abandoning PHP for Python by aidos on Monday September 16, 2013 @12:37PM (#6394127)

Great! Very interesting stuff (as it's all new to me).

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Re:Abandoning PHP for Python by marklit on Monday September 16, 2013 @07:52AM (#6392772)

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 :)

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