Recommend books or courses in basic computing to develop the necessary background knowledge of computer programming skills prior to taking the Financial Engineering courses?
If you take undergraduate programming courses they will not count as MBA credits. If you are going to do study on your own you could purchase a copy of Prof. Prisman’s book and work through some of the programming code without studying the derivatives content. The book comes with Maple software, which is the programming language that will be used in the course, so you can use the software to practice some programming. You may also find the Maple tutorial and the MatLab tutorial helpful.