This course is a 20-hour introduction to Python as a programming language for Quantitative Finance. It covers the following topics:

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• Fundamentals of Python

• Numerical methods in Python

• Data and visualisation tools

• Object-Oriented Programming

• Introduction to Pandas

• Functional Programming

• Introduction to Cython

• Multi-processing and sympy

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(Taught 2019-... in the MSc in Mathematics and Finance, Imperial College London)