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Learn modern web development as a quant with a math background to futureproof your career and build personal projects

intermediate Published 5 Sept 2022
Action Steps
  1. Learn JavaScript and its ecosystem using online resources like FreeCodeCamp or Codecademy
  2. Explore front-end frameworks like React or Angular to build user interfaces
  3. Discover back-end frameworks like Node.js or Django to handle server-side logic
  4. Build a simple web app, such as a Sudoku game, to practice and reinforce new skills
  5. Deploy your app to a cloud platform like Heroku or AWS to gain experience with deployment and scaling
Who Needs to Know This

Quant professionals looking to transition into web development and software engineers interested in math and statistics can benefit from this guidance

Key Insight

💡 Focus on building a strong foundation in programming basics and learn modern web development frameworks to futureproof your career

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Learn modern web development as a quant with a math background to futureproof your career and build personal projects

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Working as a "quant" right now but I want to broaden my horizon into web development (have some ideas that I want to try to build, and also want to futureproof a bit because I moved to a location with few opportunities for quants). I have a math background and I do lots of programming - Matlab, R, Python, even some web apps in R/Shiny and hosting my own, very basic static site - but it's nothing like modern web development as far as I can tell (the crux is usually the math/stats modelling and data handling). It's just dizzying trying to get on top of how many web dev tools/frameworks/languages there are and how fast everything seems to be changing. Been lurking here and reading up for a while, I just wanted to ask for some tips before I start. I feel like I have a decent grasp of the programming basics (data structures, OOP,...) and Linux CL, and I have an idea for a simple (Sudoku) app that I'd like to build. My idea was to look for tutoria
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