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by otoburb 3855 days ago
>>He also told me to get away from the Sargent and Stachurski course, that they add too much complexity to the explanations just for the sake of looking more Nobel-prize-winner like.

That's really good feedback for anybody thinking of attempting that course. Does your professor recommend an accompanying course to Sargent and Stachurski's quantitative economics course? I haven't seen many other courses that provide code fragments to run, so S&S's course still has a lot going for it in that regard.
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josu 3855 days ago
Nope, I'm sorry, he just told me that I should get into Python. He did recommend this edX course, but it's an introduction to Python, nothing to do with economics.

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/mitx/mitx-6-00-1x-introduction-co...

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RockyMcNuts 3854 days ago
IMF course looks interesting https://www.edx.org/course/macroeconomic-forecasting-imfx-mf...

Sargent course looks pretty intense. IMF course looks maybe more approachable, uses Eviews which is a time-series-oriented statistical modeling package.

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