A motivated finance-major student should master at least one programming language.This is especially true for students from quantitative finance,business analytics,those attending a Master of Science in Finance or oth...A motivated finance-major student should master at least one programming language.This is especially true for students from quantitative finance,business analytics,those attending a Master of Science in Finance or other financial engineering programs.Among the preferred languages,R holds one of the first places.This paper explains seven critical factors for designing and teaching a programming course:strong motivation,a good textbook,hands-on learning environment,being data intensive,a challenging term project,multiple supporting R datasets,and an easy way to upload such R datasets.展开更多
The increasing demand for software engineers cannot completely be fulfilled by university education and conventional training approaches due to limited capacities.Accordingly,an alternative approach is necessary where...The increasing demand for software engineers cannot completely be fulfilled by university education and conventional training approaches due to limited capacities.Accordingly,an alternative approach is necessary where potential software engineers are being educated in software engineering skills using new methods.We suggest micro tasks combined with theoretical lessons to overcome existing skill deficits and acquire fast trainable capabilities.This paper addresses the gap between demand and supply of software engineers by introducing an actionoriented and scenario-based didactical approach,which enables non-computer scientists to code.Therein,the learning content is provided in small tasks and embedded in learning factory scenarios.Therefore,different requirements for software engineers from the market side and from an academic viewpoint are analyzed and synthesized into an integrated,yet condensed skills catalogue.This enables the development of training and education units that focus on the most important skills demanded on the market.To achieve this objective,individual learning scenarios are developed.Of course,proper basic skills in coding cannot be learned over night but software programming is also no sorcery.展开更多
文摘A motivated finance-major student should master at least one programming language.This is especially true for students from quantitative finance,business analytics,those attending a Master of Science in Finance or other financial engineering programs.Among the preferred languages,R holds one of the first places.This paper explains seven critical factors for designing and teaching a programming course:strong motivation,a good textbook,hands-on learning environment,being data intensive,a challenging term project,multiple supporting R datasets,and an easy way to upload such R datasets.
基金supported in part by the Junior Research Group“ProMUT”(01UU1705B)which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as part of its funding initiative“Social-Ecological Research”the German Internet Institute(16DII116).
文摘The increasing demand for software engineers cannot completely be fulfilled by university education and conventional training approaches due to limited capacities.Accordingly,an alternative approach is necessary where potential software engineers are being educated in software engineering skills using new methods.We suggest micro tasks combined with theoretical lessons to overcome existing skill deficits and acquire fast trainable capabilities.This paper addresses the gap between demand and supply of software engineers by introducing an actionoriented and scenario-based didactical approach,which enables non-computer scientists to code.Therein,the learning content is provided in small tasks and embedded in learning factory scenarios.Therefore,different requirements for software engineers from the market side and from an academic viewpoint are analyzed and synthesized into an integrated,yet condensed skills catalogue.This enables the development of training and education units that focus on the most important skills demanded on the market.To achieve this objective,individual learning scenarios are developed.Of course,proper basic skills in coding cannot be learned over night but software programming is also no sorcery.
