Ses 1: Introduction and Course Overview

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a free, first-principles finance course for software engineers wanting to learn business and finance.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

MIT OpenCourseWare

Topic

finance theory

Format

course

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Finance Theory I by Prof. Andrew Lo: [LINK] . You can view the first lecture here: [VIDEO] . Prof. Lo taught this course at MIT in the Fall of 2008, which you can imagine would be a very interesting time to teach finance. The course …

• "Finance Theory" from Prof. Andrew Lo (MIT). [VIDEO] He used "Principles of Corporate Finance" by Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, and Franklin Allen as the text book. I bought it from Google Play. For accounting, I use Coursera: [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] There are other courses about …

• Thank you kindly for what looks like a great resource! I've been trying to put myself through YouTube night school on some of this stuff, and MIT OCW has great resources as well at significantly less cost than going to MIT ;) This is a …