Very nice. I might humbly suggest allocating sufficient time to actually building things, and immersing yourself into a community of like-minded software developers with similar interests. In my experience, this is the fastest approach to comprehension.
i agree, but keep in mind not all teachers are great, so being in a classroom at times a luck based to get a great teacher... enterprise scale might be different from what I consider enterprise and what you might... as an example... the budget for my bank for IT is $3.5b.... for smaller firms that I've worked for we are still talking about $600m-1b... no idea for a small hedge fund... a fund that i did some consulting for was around $25m... but then again, i didnt consider the fund an enterprise level, even if they used enterprise class... in the end, it all depends as to what you are doing tech wise... $1m for a small fund just doing money management is enough... $1m for a hft llt fund...hmmm... probably not... I have hundreds of thousands worth of gear in my lab, p6 series servers from IBM, SPARC64 VII, UltraSPARC T2+, Xeon's galore, etc... cisco routers and switches, brocade and cisco fabric, netapp filers, etc... i can basically run a small business across two sites... but it is by no means enterprise scale... that is harder to replicate.. hopefully you get the idea of what I meant now...
if you are thinking of an actual fund/firm... you will probably need someone to give you a "chance"... so basically, i hope that Ivy gets you in the door and the one across is an alma matter...
YOU ARE ALL BEING TROLLED! 1) Here is the OP's post from exactly two years ago: http://elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3177745#post3177745 2) Click the user name and see what other posts this individual has made regarding this topic. 3) Watch for the retort Read the prior posts: "I am a developer, but I can't code my own system" "Boo hoo" "... but I have been working in software for 21 years, but it all seems so difficult - "what is a guy like me to do?" . . ."How do you do it, hmm?" "Poor little me . . . Oh, but what's your secret?" Are you kidding me? Seriously, are you kidding me? In 2013 this is still happening? I don't want to start a flame riot, but this guy has to go Mags So tired of this stuff on this forum . . . (George is getting angry)
I'm not sure about other Ivies but the main attraction of an education at one of the top five is not the quality of instruction from the faculty, but what you learn from your peers, and the networking opportunities. Now especially in technical disciplines, where faculty positions are very limited, professors who eventually make it to faculty positions are just as experienced and knowledgeable, and I'd consider any of the lecture content in the top 40~ colleges to be on par. Scheme (often taught through SICP) is nice to learn but I wouldn't learn it at this point if your current goal is to get something done.
As regulators eye dark pools, Canada is in the spotlight. http://www.investfeed.com/articles/detail/99
You can look what GRE Computer Science Subject test covers which is pretty much what is covered by any CS undergrad program: http://www.ets.org/gre/subject/about/content/computer_science Graduate programs specialize in a certain area such as Cryptography, Machine Learning, etc. If you don't have CS background you should start from the undergrad courses.
Wow. I'm not sure what I should think after reading these messages. Some people seem willing to help others out like myself (thank you to those that answered my questions) and others seem to only want to bash people if they don't live up to their standards for what a post/question should be on this forum. I guess this is not the place for me to seek help. <shrug> Not sure what I've done wrong but I get it..
I do not have CS undergrad background. So, yes I do plan to do a lot of undergrad coursework through OCW. Yesterday, I just listed the graduate courses. Thinking of completing 10 undergrad courses. Lets say on average I put in 75 hours per course that will mean 3 weeks per course (@ 25 hrs per week). So, 10 courses would take me around 30 weeks of self-study. Only after finishing these, would I embark on the graduate level courses. On Languages: 1) http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electric...object-oriented-programming-january-iap-2010/ 2) http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electric...-practical-programming-in-c-january-iap-2010/ 3) http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electric...nce/6-096-introduction-to-c-january-iap-2011/ 4) http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electric...096-introduction-to-c-and-c-january-iap-2013/ On Multi-core & Parallel Programming: 1) http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electric...ce-engineering-of-software-systems-fall-2010/ 2) http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electric...ulticore-programming-primer-january-iap-2007/ 3) http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-337j-parallel-computing-fall-2011/ DB, Automata and Others: 1) http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electric...e/6-006-introduction-to-algorithms-fall-2011/ 2) http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electric...35-computer-language-engineering-spring-2010/ 3) http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electric...ata-computability-and-complexity-spring-2011/ 4) http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electric...ter-science/6-830-database-systems-fall-2010/