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Dear experts,<br />
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I am a chartered accountant, CIMA and CFA.<br />
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I have a lot of experience in writing excel formulae (the entire credit goes to this forum, thank you experts).<br />
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I now want to pursue Financial Engineering.<br />
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I am learning C, C++ now. Once I become well versed with these two languages, I will move to learning Python.<br />
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Now from robustness, depth and FE requirement is Python better or MATLAB<br />
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I am not sure I have the bandwidth to complete/learn both.<br />
<br />
Till date I have been learning C and I did not struggle to pick up the synatax or logic.<br />
<br />
Kindly advice.
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Dear experts,

I am a chartered accountant, CIMA and CFA.

I have a lot of experience in writing excel formulae (the entire credit goes to this forum, thank you experts).

I now want to pursue Financial Engineering.

I am learning C, C++ now. Once I become well versed with these two languages, I will move to learning Python.

Now from robustness, depth and FE requirement is Python better or MATLAB

I am not sure I have the bandwidth to complete/learn both.

Till date I have been learning C and I did not struggle to pick up the synatax or logic.

Kindly advice.

Python/MATLAB for financial engineering

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