Title: Q for Smarties

Dennis Shasha
New York University
shasha@cs.nyu.edu

The goal of this three day 18 hour course is to take programmers
who are strong in some language and make them proficient Q programmers.
The course is structured as a hands-on course in which students
are introduced to elements of Q and then asked to work on exercises.

The entire class consists of the following parts:

1. Statistics, simple finance calculations, monte carlo simulation,
date arithmetic on in-memory data.

2. Input/Output, inter-process communication, single client-multiple server.

3. Creating tables, computing volume weighted average price (SQL semantics),
computing moving averages (ordered table semantics), generating large
random data for simulation, bulk insert, foreign key joins, stored procedures,
scrape a website and fill a server, load-balanced data server.

4. Large data storage, left joins, temporal joins (asof, window join,
precise window joins).

5. Tickerplants: logging data, pubsub, building data access languages of your
own.


