Xiaotong
(Vivian) Wang
Ph.D. Candidate in Financial Economics
This page contains a subset of my computer tools. The links are the primary sources for my self-eduction in computer science.
 The Coolest Editor:
 Latex: With TexnicCenter,
coding is straightforward. With MikTex,
you have all the fonts you can imagine. Yes, you cannot see the
appearance of your document while eiditing. On the other hand,
you have full control over how your document looks! This
is where everybody goes: Ctan.org.
Emacs: The most powerful test
editor under Unix. Moreover, it is a free, portable, extensible
text editor. This is where I got started: EmacsTutorial
The Coolest Web Editor:
Dreamweaver: Needless
to say, this is the software I use to make this web! This software
is designed for dummies. Don't need to read anything!
The Coolest Programming Language:
Matlab: Easy to use and extremely
good at matrix computation. It gives you full control over all your
statistical measures, especially those crucial ones generating profitable
trading strategies! Need to read some good programming books to learn the tricks.
C++: When Matlab
is slow, let's go to C++ and speed up your program.
The Program Every Financial Empirist Uses:
SAS: It is written in C and
has a powerful built-in database system, which makes it really efficient in
handling large data sets. I am still learning SAS myself, far from being an expert. SAS seems to have its own way of doing programming (different from Matlab, C, C++, Perl...) and it is full of SAS-specific tricks. On one hand, it is a very powerful programming language. On the other hand, it does not really behave like a programming language. The more I use it, the more I am amazed by its programming ability and capability of dealing with huge data sets.
The Best Parser:
Perl: Need to build a robot
collecting data from internet, need to control your program to go
from Matlab to C++ and back again, need to restart the program after it dies... Perl is what you need.
How to Become a Hacker:
Well, this is a secret!!
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