Computing for 1st yr Actuarial Studies (2 Viewers)

[§eraphim]

For 1st yr actuaries who want to familiarise themselves with computers before doing ACTL1001.

- Attend PASS
- Sit in the lectures for Spreadsheet & Database Applns - GENE8000

Any other ways?

 

[Affinity]

sit in front of computer, get some books - start hacking.

 

[Raginsheep]

What's Pass and how much computing is required as an actuary? I get the impression its a fair bit.

 

[t-i-m-m-y]

What's Pass and how much computing is required as an actuary? I get the impression its a fair bit.

I wouldn't worry too much. I was, and still am, a diehard Excel hater. Although I've come to love Excel in various twisted ways.

If you want to do well, you should probably play with Excel a little bit. The most I can do is create graphs, add/multiply/subtract/divide one cell by another, and use goal seek, thats it

 

[Raginsheep]

Damn...excel. I wasn't so worried about the computer bit (just a bit unexpected?), but at least it could have been something more exciting...

 

[redslert]

Damn...excel. I wasn't so worried about the computer bit (just a bit unexpected?), but at least it could have been something more exciting...

If you are going to do actuarial studies, then be prepare to learn independantly. They sure as hell don't bother to teach you how to use Excel, you should be able to figure it out, they do provide a step by step tutorial.
How can it be unexpected? If you choose an actuarial career path, you will most likely spend the rest of it looking at spreadsheets.

And you do some VBA work which is always fun!

 

[Raginsheep]

Makes sense I suppose. What's VBA? Visual Basic ....?

 

[wanton-wonton]

For 1st yr actuaries who want to familiarise themselves with computers before doing ACTL1001.

- Attend PASS
- Sit in the lectures for Spreadsheet & Database Applns - GENE8000

Any other ways?

Once again, what is PASS??

 

[MAICHI]

Once again, what is PASS??

Peer Assistant and Support Scheme.

But I'm not sure which PASS class §eraphim is referring to, I thought they only run it for first year economics and accounting.

 

[§eraphim]

Peer Assistant and Support Scheme.

But I'm not sure which PASS class §eraphim is referring to, I thought they only run it for first year economics and accounting.

ACTL1001 PASS