I need the Hull book, "Options, Futures, and other Derivatives"also, I need a good introductory C++ book. It could be general, or specific to financial engineering.I'll pay for shipping also. Cash Money.

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Okay, here's a tip. Search through the archives on the forum, and you will find a link to order Hull's book from somewhere in Asia. It is dirt cheap, something like around $40 bucks for the paperback of 5th edition. I am not welling to sell my 4th edition copy for any reason.As for book on C++, I recommend stroup's or deitel's book. Deitel When I took C++, this was the standard text for all introductory courses. You can find plenty of old editions of the book on the cheap.Hope this helps.

Actually, yes it does. Thank you.

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you can actually go to amazon and get hull's 5th asian version for about $40. i did. the vendor i bought from is paperback24 (i think). he seems like a good guy. as an aside, the quality is not as high as the domestic version (thin paper, paperback, black & white diagrams), but you don't spend $130. besides, by the time it wears out, he'll have version 7. anyway, what i say holds if you are in the us.

About C++ why don't you try Eckel's book "thinking in C++" ?it's free on the net and you can find html and pdf version of his books both on eckel's site (www.mindview.net) and on many other sites.I think it's the best!

What about in terms of finding a compiler? and a text editor?

assuming you are using Windows, I recommend you go with Bloodshed Dev C++ (which is based on gcc) : Free and easy to use. Or you could order the 'learning edition' of Visual C++ - it comes with a book on Visual C++; this would familiarise you with the Microsoft compiler which would be useful for jobs - don't bother with any of the .NET stuff while you're learning C++, just use regular C++. I don't have URL's but try google and amazon.If you are using linux, kdevelop is good. It's also based on the gcc compiler.For a text editor, ultraedit (www.ultraedit.com) is very good and customisable.

I would also recommend Bruce Eckel's "Thinking in C++", this is a great C++ course. As for the compiler/editor, I use GCC and TextPad. The latter works very well also as and editor for TeX and tons of ther purposes/

Regarding a C++ compiler for Windows...Is the code you wish to write not really needing a GUI and instead oriented more towards computation, file I/O, network I/O, database, and/or text. In other words, are you not writing code using features specific to Microsoft Windows O/S & GUI's ? Are you comfortable with a CLI (Command Line Interface) ?If so, there are two additional options to consider:*) CYGWIN = (Cygnus Windows) = (Cy... GNUs for WINdows) = GNU+ been around longer, so more stable and mature+ substantial numbers of well-known 3rd-party opensource packages ported to it.- development efforts seem to be tapering off~ oriented towards unix-types who want a familiar CLI on their PC desktop or laptop.- to distribute binaries to other Wintel users you must include a more substantial run-time library environment- not really appropriate for creating DLL's for access from Windows-based programs (i.e. from Excel)- essentially creates a self-contained environment which is not as straightforward to interact with Windows-based programs.*) MinGW (Minimal GNU for Windows) + MSYS+ a more minimal run-time library, possibly not even needing to be included separately when distributing binaries- much newer and not as well established or broken-in and still going through growing pains+ development of the environment is continuing and expanding+ seems to offer better access to Microsoft O/S API's (i.e. Win32, etc)+ can build DLL's to be accessed from other Windows-based programs+ better for writing programs which can interact with other Windows-based programsI have them both, but I still really only use CYGWIN for now since I am more of a unix-type. I will gradually migrate to MinGW/MSYS as it evolves. Even though MinGW seems to have better potential for developing Windows-specific GUI apps, the development environment still seems more CLI-oriented. CYGWIN is oriented mostly towards CLI with only minimal GUI capability.Note that with both of these environments, not only do you get the GNU C++ compiler, which includes other languages such as Pascal & Fortran, but equally important you can also get Perl if you didn't already have a standalone install of that. Working with text data files, even Perl runs orders of magnitudes faster than Excel or Access, not to mention the speed boost from C++.You need to decide how this fits into the context of your requirements.

you can run MingW through DevCpp which is a pretty good IDE without any command linestuff