Plan on double majoring in accounting and finance. What things

>>8663275
Honestly, as a finance major and software engineering minor, all I use is VB, and Visio. There are so many CS and SE majors that are much better at programming than I am, so if I understand a system that I need, I'll outsource the programming to another department.

>>8663286
I see. Do you rec I do any coding in my free time on my own at all? Or just take a few coding classes with my majors? Should I minor in Software Engineering too instead of taking CS classes?

>>8663297
Since I don't think programming skills will be obsolete anytime soon, I would recommend it.

I don't know how strong your uni SE program is, but SE is traditionally more applied knowledge than CS theoretical knowledge. Anyways, my school's SE program is ranked in the top 15 nationally, so I knew my extra time and money was being well utilized.

>>8663323
crap. mine is ranked in top 25. Hope that would suffice.
>brainlet here

>>8663348
It's more of a personal choice bud

>>8663275
>What things should I specifically be able to code?


VB. Maybe some SQL to understand how databases work and how to extract, insert, update, delete data when necessary.
If you're into research and want delve deeper into financial data, maybe learn some Python, there are some useful data frameworks such as "Anaconda" that are pretty easy to use.

Other than that, send it to Vikram from IT.

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>>8663356
software engineering sounds cool. I did some coding classes in the past and was told software engineers are more of the people in charge of development and economics of the coding process rather than being the coding monkey. So it would make sense to take it with my business major.

>>8663364
Ive built things in Python a few years ago and studied a little SQL. What specifically should I be able to do with python? Ive made a GUI interface and rock paper scissors game. But thats probably ppretty pointless.

>>8663377
>>8663377

I don't know what field within finance you're trying to develop yourself but from the top of my head: financial risk modeling, statistical analysis,... on large datasets. Excel and VB tend to freeze after a certain amount of gigabytes of daya, Python is less likely to freeze up.

Here's an interesting library within Python that you can use to toy around with all sorts of data: http://pandas.pydata.org/. See the bottom of the page to get a glimpse of what this library can do.

Good luck!

thanks anons!