<t>All,Well, after looking at both curricula in more detail, I was able to see the following:MBA Financial Engineering:1st Year -> Standard MBA stuff...finance...mgm't...operations...etc.2nd Year -> The 3 John Hull/Alan White courses (derivatives I, risk mgm't, derivatives II)...plus options to take...

<t>Hi Everyone,Just curious if any of you folks have opinions (good or bad) regarding MBA programs that offer concentrations in Financial Engineering? For example, the University of Toronto MBA program has a FE track with courses that are taught by John Hull...Having been a SW developer for the past...

<t>Here's some feedback:What's the difference between a structure and a class?* This is an incredibly useless question to ask...I don't know why employers bother with this one. It really doesn't prove anything...What will a compiler construct for you if you declare/define a class with no members or ...

<t>Hi everyone,I'm a developer with a degree in Computer Engineering and have worked in the Telecom Equipment industry developing software for the past 5 years.With the meltdown that's hitting the industry...I'll be out of the job with nearly 6 months severence. I would really like to break into SW ...

<t>Hi,I know someone who used to work for them as a straight-up software developer (he wasn't doing any quant work)....At the time he was there, they had two offices:1) HQ in Bermuda2) A development office in Toronto (Waterfront International).Since then, I gather things have changed significantly:*...

<t>Hi filthy,Many thanks for the feedback...it certainly cleared up a few things for me.Unfortunately, it has lead to two additional questions for you (or anyone else out there brave enough to tackle this):1) Apart from the individual corporate/environmental nuances associated with each shop, is the...

<t>Hi Everyone,I am trying to get my head around understanding the various Sales & Trading outfits of the various WS institutions out there and the type of work that takes place here (in the context of the quantitative finance/software development community).The Buy-Side:Firstly, it seems to me ...

<t>Hi everyone,So I've posted here before...and I'm just trying to get some better context from some folks on this forum. Again, here's a brief background:1) I'm a Software Developer in telecom looking to break into SW Development in IB (and also a major buy-side firm...but that's slightly OT for th...

<t>Maxim,To properly answer your question, a few more details are needed:1) Where is _gsl_sf_bessel_J0 defined (looks like GNU.obj is referencing this symbol that's defined somewhere in your code).2) Is your GNU library an actual port of GNU freeware ported for windows....or is it some proprietary l...

<t>The only difference between myself and you is that I'm not a Quant...and I've about 99% resigned to the fact I'll never get a quant position with my background...and in this economy.HOWEVER,There must be a whole wack of back-end in-house S/W development that's done in these big firms....I suspect...

<t>Hi all,Just to chime in on the whole C++ exception handling...As a UNIX guy, I'm rather amused that James' AccessViolate() function actually results in an exception...and not an all-out crash...wow. And from my experience, catch(...) will catch anything that's "thrown"...including junk that's thr...

<t>Typically, templates are used for containers and generic classes/algorithms that can accept different types...thus preventing you from having to "block-copy" code to support multiple types. So you're pretty much on the money there...Generally, when compilers come across C++ templates, they create...

<t>Hi,I'm tring to choose the best way to implement the class "matrix" in my financial library, and I have 3 possibilities1) use vector<vector<double> >2) use valarray<valarray<double> >3) create a new class where I will define a double ** field to contain all dataandrea >>Hi Andrea,There really sho...

That's very strange indeed since that piece of code compiles fine under Sun Workshop's forte 6.1 compiler...and is perfectly valid too.

<t>Greetings folks,As it turns out, my first and only contribution to the Wilmott boards is unfortunately a solicitation for free advice...but no joke, it's taken me about 3 weeks of research to finally track down an online community of folks who are working/familiar with an area that has really pea...