&gt;&gt;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.<p>That&#x27;s really good feedback for anybody thinking of attempting that course. Does your professor recommend an accompanying course to Sargent and Stachurski&#x27;s quantitative economics course? I haven&#x27;t seen many other courses that provide code fragments to run, so S&amp;S&#x27;s course still has a lot going for it in that regard.