On 1/21/2014 11:00 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
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
Definitely. I once worked out how to do nonlinear regression with a
spreadsheet, after doing it with Basic (and later C).
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
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