On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 1:04:16 AM UTC+5:30, Matt Watson wrote: > Getting in the habit of dropping in a google group for any new project - > everyone tends to be so helpful.
> I work in the automotive sales industry(management) and find myself > doing so many day to day tasks that could easily be automated. I'm a > very tech saavy person, but after running in fear from a Javascript > class in undergrad 8 years ago I haven't ever looked back. I simply > had no interest because I saw no applications. > Now that I have a solid career I see SO many applications for > programming in my industry alone. Automating data > movement/calculations from websites, spreadsheets, pricing, etc will > be my primary use.I'm OK saying I didn't retain 1% of what I > learned in the Javascript class, I've dabbled in HTML, I've tweaked > code in Excel macros or AutoIt scripts, but I'd classify myself as a > complete beginner in programming. It looks like 1. You are familiar with spreadsheets 2. Your work is spreadsheet-like Why not develop that into a bigger strength? Most people -- even those using spreadsheets -- dont seem to think of the spreadsheet macro language/VBA as a programming language but it is and it may well be all you need. This is written by one of the biggest names in programming languages today http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Papers/excel/excel.pdf -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
