Teaching Programming Skills to Finance Students : How to Design and Teach a Great Course?

It is always my firm belief that an ambitious finance-major student should master at least one computer language. This is especially true for students from quantitative-finance, MSF, business analytics or financial engineering programs. Among many good languages, R and Python are the two best ones. Based on my 6-year experience of teaching R to finance students at 3 schools, the following 7 factors are critical for designing and teaching such a course: strong motivation, a good textbook, a hands-on environment, data intensive, a challenging term project, tons of supporting R data sets and an easy way to upload those R data sets

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Year of publication:	2016
Authors:	Yan, Yuxing
Publisher:	[2016]: [S.l.] : SSRN
Subject:	Betriebswirtschaftsstudium \| Graduate business education \| Studierende \| Students \| Qualifikation \| Occupational qualification \| Lehrplan \| Curriculum \| Wirtschaftspädagogik \| Business and economics education \| Didaktik \| Didactics \| Unterricht \| Teaching \| Lernmethode \| Learning method \| Wirtschaftsstudium \| Graduate economics education \| E-Learning \| E-learning

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