How many of you can write a code to reverse a string of letters ?

OP?

I could in Python and VBA. MAYBE t-SQL if I got creative.

To you elder guys feeling so above this: coding ability is the number one skill wanted by employers for high paying jobs.

To r3 who doesn’t understand that coding monkeys are a dime a dozen: systems architecture and business analysts are the skills that make big bucks.

I use C/C++

So where on earth does one start if you want to learn how to code on your own? What types of coding/programs/??? are "the" ones to learn?

R4 for either of those jobs someone who codes will be chosen over other candidates every time. I'm asked to elaborate on my coding skills for every interview.

R6 really depends on what your job is. For good number crunching and making tools others will use to automate work processes I recommend VBA. it's the native language excel understands. Python is easier to learn though and more versatile

If you need to connect systems together and do things more complicated than number crunching like pull data from multiple systems and aggregate it I'd recommend Java or or a variant of C like C++.

Udemy is a great place to learn. Cheap course with dozens of house of lectures. Only choose a course with several thousand reviews and more than 4 stars

Then you’re not employed at a high level r7.

R9 I work for a hedge fund, before that I did finance at one of the largest companies in the world, before that I did actuarial work at one of the largest companies in the world.

And you’re still being asked if you can write code? Don’t believe a word.

Thank you R8. I'm not even sure it's going to be necessary for my job, I just feel left behind that I don't know how to do it and assume it should be on my resume.

we’re not doing your homework for you, OP.

Not only am I being asked about it r11. Coding is a huge part of my job. No one wants people crunching numbers by hand anymore. The goal is always to automate any process than can be. Usually you need someone who also understands the math behind things to code it properly.

Right now I'm building a model that should save one of our teams a hour or so a day figuring out how much they are allowed to buy without going over limits.

Coding is done by machine, humans are obsolete.

I don't even know how to respond to that R15 it's completely false. Coding is humans telling the machine how to do human work

Touche' R11

Coding skill is obsolete

BUMP.

OP here.

So no one wants to answer my question ?

I can in PHP and C.

Lets move it along, Toots

Now, given n, how many of you can write a code to print the first n prime numbers ? In the most efficient way possible.

These are all stock "programming interview" questions. I thought they were stupid when I was studying for them, no one actually does this in real life.

[quote] coding ability is the number one skill wanted by employers for *a few specific* high paying job *types*, but it's useless for the majority of high-paying jobs.

FIFY, R3.

If you want any good job in finance or markets, any type of research, or anything that touches statistics you will be expected to code or at least be able to understand and edit code others have made.

Just because your bosses would never fire you elder gay's who can't do it doesn't mean they are still hiring new people into those positions who can't.

I bet some of you thought knowing how to type would never be a wide spread necessary skill.

Thanks for cluing us in, R3&R25, because being high-paid douchebros like you (who can't even spell "gays") is the most important thing in life.

LOL I deserved that knock. But my point still stands, most people at any age could improve their earning potential by learning it. And it's something I think you should try to learn if you can.

Looking down on people who have a skill you don't as "coding monkeys" is dumb

R27 I was once a coding monkey. That’s how I started my career. I haven’t written a line of code in years because I have coding monkeys working for me. You’re wrong. Just plain wrong. If you are an actuary you don’t write code you have an IT department who write code, you just have to approve the function spec.

I could write this code in Fortran and Pascal, for I am an elder gay.

R28 then sorry to say the work you do cannot be very complex or take skills that are hard to find in the market.

My older jobs had general coders that made generic software for storing client info or other simple tasks. But no one with out an actuary's training could make tools for actuaries. The math and mechanics of what we did were not something you could just explain to a random coder. Even a great one. Every tool we used was built by actuaries. Some was software we bought. Most were excel based tools we used for report writing and accounting. But all were made by actuaries.

That why modern companies want employees who can do it themselves. Or at the very least edit the tools we already have. The employees who couldn't do that at all always had some other great thing going for them. And they were still learn when they got the job.

Everyone in my current job is expected to increase productivity for fund regardless of your role. For traders, that takes the form of automating the analysis you may dominant excel to take info directly from Bloomberg. For Investor relations, it may be automating emails that go to clients in response to different situations, but all these groups make at least some kg their own tools

May do* in excel

phone* lmao

I could do it in Python and VBA (with Excel). If I could reference syntax, it probably wouldn't be that hard in any number of programming languages.

I've never really had a job where anything other than VBA/Excel was valued. I did work in statistics at the beginning of my career, but I had no clue how SAS worked. I've since learned some R, and I much prefer it. Overall, I just learn pieces of programming/algorithms/patterns etc. for fun, but my skill level is just too low for all those bits of knowledge to coalesce into something useful. What would be a good next step to actually solidify what knowledge I do have into actual skills? A bootcamp?

R33 a bookcase is more than you need unless you want coding to become you're primary job. If you are having success with Excel and VBA that's probably enough. That's all I originally knew and then I learn python and SQL to augment it for specific challenges at work. I'd check out free or cheap online courses before a bootcamp

The algorithm you use for this bit of code is more important than the coding language. Are you going to put the string into a matrix and then print it out in reverse or are you going to be fancy and use recursion?

This task is literally the textbook lesson for recursion.

I'd do a loop that counted the characters of the string, saved the last one to a new string, until the character count is 0

I also did some coding early in my career, but none for a long time. I'm sure I could do it in PASCAL, FORTRAN or even BASIC. It's net very difficult.

I could write an algorithm for reversing a string of letters using recursion.