MS Quantitative Economics

Topics Covered

• 2010-07-21 Wednesday
• 2010-07-28 Wednesday
• 2010-07-30 Friday
• 2010-08-02 Monday
• 2010-08-04 Wednesday
• 2010-08-09 Monday
• 2010-08-11 Wednesday
• 2010-08-16 Monday (Assignment)
• 2010-08-18 Wednesday
• 2010-08-23 Monday (Assignment)
• 2010-08-25 Wednesday (Assignment)
• 2010-08-30 Monday (Assignment)
• 2010-09-01 Wednesday (Assignment)
• 2010-09-06 Monday (Assignment)
• 2010-09-20 Monday
• 2010-09-22 Wednesday
• 2010-09-27 Monday
• 2010-09-29 Wednesday
• 2010-10-04 Monday
• 2010-10-06 Wednesday
• 2010-10-11 Monday
• 2010-10-13 Wednesday
• 2010-10-20 Wednesday

Assignments

• 2010-08-16
  • Review
  • Calculator
• 2010-08-23
  • Pointer string copy
• 2010-08-25
  • Add numbers from command line
  • Find minimum and maximum of numbers
  • Piggy-bank
• 2010-08-30
  • Compute with 1, 2 or 3 command-line arguments
• 2010-09-01
  • Modified compute using functions
• 2010-09-06
  • Fibonacci series

Solutions

• Mid-term exam, 2010-09-18

Useful Online Resources

Programming

• Introduction to programming (PDF)
  Basic introduction discussing the art of programming with no reference to specific languages.
• Harvard University Online Course: Introduction to Computer Science
  Week 0 should be interesting at the beginning. You may want to look at the more advanced stuff later as we progress into the course.
• C++ Language Tutorial
  Full tutorial on C++.
• Introduction to Programming in C++
  Online course teaching C++. Ignore the Visual C++ portions.
• Makefile tutorial
  Tutorial on using Makefiles and the make utility for compiling your programs.

Pointers

• Tutorial to pointers in C++

Vi Editor Videos

• Video 1 (Download)
  From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71YTkxUNwmg
• Video 2 (Download)
  From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSXoap2h3Mw

FOSS Resources

• The GNU Manifesto
  The original thought process that drove the movement. Definitely worth a read, whether you want to sympathise with or criticise FOSS.
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
  ESR's original paper describing how the open development model leads to better software.
• The Free Software Definition
• Motives for Writing Free Software

Software

• PuTTY, a secure login (SSH) client. Use to login to a Unix/Linux server from Windows.
• WinSCP3, a secure file transfer client. Use to transfer files securely between Unix/Linux and Windows.
• Notepad++, a programmers' editor for Windows.

Contact Details

• Raj Mathur
• raju (at) kandalaya (dot) org